Democratic women target McCain on abortion, children's healthcare and equal pay
By Max Pizarro, PolitickerNJ.com Reporter
State Sen. Loretta Weinberg (D-Bergen): Politicker file photoDemocratic women legislators today upbraided presidential candidate Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) over his opposition to recent legislation promoting equal pay for women, expansion children’s healthcare; and his stance against Roe vs. Wade.
McCain’s pick of a pro-life vice presidential candidate, Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin, simply concretized the Democrats’ dismay over the prospect of a McCain presidency.
The Statehouse press conference included Sen. Loretta Weinberg (D-Bergen), Assembly Majority Leader Bonnie Watson Coleman (D-Ewing), and 
Assemblywoman Bonnie Watson Coleman (D-Ewing): Politicker file photoLaurel Brennan, secretary treasurer of the New Jersey AFL-CIO.
"This is not the John McCain of 2000, he is no maverick," said Weinberg, a longtime supporter of Obama’s.
"Women in New Jersey have consistently voted against candidates who espouse extreme right wing ideological views on healthcare and choice, and we’re confident they’ll continue that tradition when they learn more about John McCain," Weinberg added.
Watson Coleman backed up her fellow legislator.
"The women of New Jersey are savvy voters and they won’t support a candidate who is hostile to so many interests that they hold dear," said the assembly majority leader.
"When you contrast Senator Obama’s record with Senator McCain, there’s no comparison, Senator Obama has fought for equal pay, the right to choose, expanded healthcare and protection from violence, John McCain hasn’t."
McCain earlier this year voted against the failed Ledbetter Fair Pay Act. Named after tire plant worker Lily Ledbetter, who claimed to make 40 percent less than her male counterparts doing the same job, the bill attempted to overturn a 5-4 Supreme Court ruling limiting pay discrimination suits.
Obama voted in favor of the bill.
"Women in America earn 70 cents on the dollar compared to men, and John McCain opposed the legislation that finally would have put women on equal ground," said Brennan. "That’s money that John McCain took out of the pockets of New Jersey families. As President, Barack Obama would sign equal pay legislation into law, McCain won’t."
McCain told CNN last year that President George W. Bush was correct to veto a bill concerning the State Children’s Health Insurance Program (SCHIP). The bill would have enabled SCHIP to expand coverage to 10 million children at a cost of $35 billion over five years.
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Democrat Women and double standard
Just where oh where are they on Ferriero sexual misconduct and his treatment of women ?.... I know they are all in Hudson County distroying the file and docket number.
Clear Choice
The choice for working women and men in this country is clear, and the Obama-Biden ticket has the strongest record on working clas issues, health care and a woman's right to choose in comparison to McCain-Palin. McCain voted against the Employee Free Choice Act (Obama for), which would allow workers to join unions more easily; McCain has voted against health care planning and funding for women's clinics that also perform abortion; and McCain has voted against the minimum wage in the past and filibustered efforts to raise the minimum wage. McCain even had the gall to vote against funding for victims of Hurricane Katrina, a majority of whom were lower class.
Thank you to the New Jersey women at this press conference who have helped bring McCain's abysmal record on women's issues to light. Care about workers' issues, womens' rights, and health care expansion? The only choice in this election is Obama-Biden. And we haven't even begun discussing Biden's superb work on behalf of abused women in the U.S. senate.
Questions for Martin one
Just what would a liberal metrosexual like you know about womens issues.? Both Palin and Mc Cain have a vocal and public stand on Motherhood and special needs children. Obama the high priest of abortion on demand at all times under all circumstances is anti women. Here in Bergen County you are silent when one of your own attacks and sexually molests women. You are just one big liberal two faced hypocrite.
Confused liberal women of NJ.
Sen. Loretta Weinberg (D-Bergen), Assembly Majority Leader Bonnie Watson Coleman (D-Ewing), and Laurel Brennan, secretary treasurer of the New Jersey AFL-CIO added their own personal confusion to a confused Obama campaign. Nobody explained to them that federal issues are different from state ones. How so? "Women in New Jersey have consistently voted against candidates who espouse extreme right wing ideological views on healthcare and choice, and we’re confident they’ll continue that tradition when they learn more about John McCain," Weinberg added. I think Sen. Weinberg had in mind NJ elections not the presidential races. First of all, there was only one women running for VP before and she was a Democrat, which did not help her at all. This year there is a Republican woman running for VP. Normally, Democrat women such as those listed above would be proud. However, Gov. Palin is not their kind of woman and that has sent shock waves throughout the Democratic Party. How so? “A pro-life vice presidential candidate, Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin, simply concretized the Democrats’ dismay.” To be honest, I would not expect anything else from these Democrat and liberal/socialist women claiming to represent and know all the women of NJ. I doubt that they know and represent them at all.
Who is a better representation of women?
Lynn Forester de Rothschild for McCain?
Or Lily Ledbetter for Obama?
In other news..
The level of global warming drastically increased in New Jersey after these woman spoke.
Must have been all that hot air...
Sarah Palin Is Like Clarence Thomas...
Aside from the fact that Palin and Thomas are political/ideological twins.....they both "represent" oppressed groups in a way that fosters continued oppression of both African Americans and of women.
Both of these "twins" were cynical appointments of lesser qualified people in order to obtain a political benefit.
God help this country if Palin ever becomes the president.
Just the fact that he appointed her is a complete disqualificaton for John McCain.
Even CONSERVATIVES admit that Palin isn't qualified for the job.
David Brooks...
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Richard Cohen
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The Palin "bump" will become a Palin albatross around McCain's neck as more and more people get past the book's cover.
From Frederick Douglass
You morons do realize that
You morons do realize that the legal name of the party is the "Democratic" party and not the Democrat party. It has been that way since the late 1800's. No need for a history lesson but my point is that saying it the wrong way to annoy democrats is childish drivel. Grow the F&%k up.
Nothing Democratic about the Dems.
Keep Hacking Palins family email and go to jail. Keep searching for Ferrieros Bergen Docket number in Hudson County. This is like OJ SEARCHING for NICOLES killer. Its Over Johnny, Its Over Mc Cain is going to win and Bergen Dems are going to the POKIE
What's in your wallet trumps what's in your uterus
Pardon the term pocketbook here but that is what working women in NJ are thinking about these days, not the random chance they may need to consider reproductive options in the coming 4 years. How much money their families are not keeping after all the taxes and fees in this state are swiped from their paychecks is foremost in voters' minds.
These two trolls under the bridge really are clueless to that fact.
sore spot, nj_politics_2008?
you need to grow up you infantile phonebank volunteer. Use that language on your own time not here. If mere namecalling gets you in a tizzy, maybe you need to find a new line of work, like reshelving books in the local library. Democratic? Democrat? Who cares, really? the Press still uses democrat more often than not so put your pacifer back in your mouth and sit down.