From Addicting Info: http://www.addictinginfo.org/2012/02/21/wisconsin-assembly-officially-ends-employment-discrimination-remedies/
February 21, 2012
All across the nation we have seen a GOP assault on pretty much everyone who is not a rich white christian, male. Today this took on a whole new level as the State Assembly passed Senate Bill 202. This bill was introduced by Senator Glenn Grothman. According to Representative Christine Sinicki, Grothman said a woman’s place is at home cooking, cleaning, and making babies. For this reason he authored a bill making it so that people who are discriminated against by employers cannot sue for punitive or compensatory damages. This bill passed the Senate on partisan lines. Today, February 21, 2012, the bill was in front of the Assembly. The Democrats gave speech after speech on how bad this bill was, focusing on the current income gap between males and females. And after all of that, just one Republican stood up to defend the bill. The one who spoke was Representative Michelle Litjens who pulled out a defense seen time and time again. She simply said the Democrats were lying and that this bill doesn’t reverse any rights someone who has been discriminated against has. To call her bullshit we need look no further than the title of the bill.
Senate Bill 202: An Act to repeal 111.39 (5) (d), 111.397 and 893.995; and to amend 111.39 (4) (d) and 814.04 (intro.) of the statutes; relating to: elimination of compensatory and punitive damages for acts of employment discrimination or unfair honesty or genetic testing. (FE)
I don’t know what kind of education Michelle got in school, but to me that is pretty clear. And what I quoted above was written by the non-partisan Legislative Reference Bureau. I do not see any way a bill that says “elimination of compensatory and punitive damages for…” would do anything less than eliminate the ability to receive such damages. Do the Republicans really think we are that stupid? The bill passed with every Republican Woman voting for it. But what is really stunning is not that it passed, it is the realization that the women in the Republican party will not even stand up for their own gender. They vote for legislation that discriminates against their own sex. Do they truly agree with Grothman that a woman’s place is in the home? Do they believe they do not deserve the jobs they have? I am not sure what they believe, but they voted in agreement. I find it sad that these women have no pride in the rights that they have earned.
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