Now just what the Hell does anyone make of this? You see, apparently Texas gubernatorial candidate, and Democrat, Wendy Davis, who has been quite busy of late championing a controversial equal pay for women issue there in the Lone Star State, paid her male staffers more than she paid her female employees. Imagine that. Documents show that in 44 out of 58 months between January 2009, when she took office as a state senator, and October 2013, the highest earner in her office was (drum roll), a man. Whoops!
Now while it was in fact a female who earned the highest salary for six months during that period, for the remaining months a male and female staffer shared the highest earner position. The review stated that the highest pay for any month during that five-year period was $8,851, which went during mid-2010 to Ware Wendell, Davis’ then chief of staff. During 2013, Davis’ chief of staff Sonya Grogg was paid $6,250 in the month of October. So once again we have what is another example of blatant Democrat hypocrisy.
As well, there was also a recent analysis that showed for 37 of the 58 months, men in Davis’ office averaged higher salaries than did the women, while female workers had larger salaries than the male employees for the remaining 21 months. The records also showed that male Davis staffers earned a little over $300,000 more than female staffers during the five-year period, with salaries paid to men reaching $1,143,357 while women were paid $837,481 in aggregate salary records. Both of which seem rather exorbitant for a state senator’s office.
And keep in mind here that Davis has been constantly attacking her Republican opponent in this race, Attorney General Greg Abbott, for his opposition to a bill that she sponsored which would allow women to file equal-pay grievances in state courts. Texas Gov. Rick Perry vetoed the bill last year. Perry slammed Davis’ attacks on Abbott last month, saying that it was "nonsense" to focus on equal pay for women when there are other more important issues like job creation and cutting business regulations.
Now I’m sure it can go without saying that Democrats are trying really heard to make equal pay an issue during the upcoming midterm elections. And especially since they are quite desperate to find some way, any way, of distracting voter attention away from Obamacare. So while I’m sure we can count on hearing a lot more on the subject, it may prove to be somewhat of a double-edged sword. After all, Barry too seems to be in the habit of paying the men who work for him more than the women who do, and quite a bit more.
But be that as it may, in doing his best to play the part of the concerned public servant, and in celebration of Equal Pay Day, Barry "Almighty" signed two executive orders on Tuesday. The first prohibits federal contractors from retaliating against workers who discuss their salaries, while the other order will instruct the Labor Department to create new regulations that require federal contractors to report salary data, including gender and race breakdowns, to the government. But there’ll no need for Barry to comply.
And apparently Barry is also said to be planning a speech urging Congress to pass the Paycheck Fairness Act, which Senate Democrats are expected to begin debating this week. The bill expanding the scope of the Equal Pay Act of 1963 was twice previously rejected by Congress. But, again, with Democrats searching for some way to take the minds of voters off of Obamacare I’m quite sure that in the coming months all that we are likely to hear about is how women continued to get screwed in the workplace.
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