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Cao Campaigns for VA Candidate who Sees Women's Work as Detrimental
Thursday, October 29, 2009Today, Louisiana Democratic Party Chairman Chris Whittington called for Representative Joseph Cao (LA-2) to explain his decisions to support and campaign for extremist Bob McDonnell in the Virginia Governor's race. Cao spoke on McDonnell's behalf at a Northern Virginia event yesterday.
"When Congressman Cao decided
to campaign for and help get voters to approve
of Bob McDonnell's right-wing
vision for Virginia, Louisianans are asking if
he shares those beliefs. Does
Congressman Cao agree with Bob McDonnell that
President Obama shouldn't have
received an honorary degree from Notre Dame?"
said Chris
Whittington, chairman of the Louisiana
Democratic Party. "In McDonnell's
Virginia, unmarried couples wouldn't
have access to contraception and decisions that
should be made between victims
of rape or incest and their doctors are made by
elected officials. He even said
that a woman working outside the home was
'detrimental to the family.' Louisiana
voters are right to question Congressman Cao's
judgment. If he stands behind Bob
McDonnell's extremism, he's not standing up for
us."
Background
According to
Real Clear Politics, Congressman Cao
campaigned in Virginia for Bob McDonnell on
Tuesday. [Real Clear Politics,
10/26/2009]
In Bob McDonnell's graduate school thesis at televangelist Pat Robertson's Regent University, McDonnell laid out his vision for the Republican party platform which included belief that working women were "detrimental" to the family and legalization of contraception was "illogical." [Washington Post, 8/30/2009]
"In 2001, he voted against a resolution to support eliminating gender-based wage discrimination. Over the years, he also sponsored or cosponsored three dozen bills to restrict a woman's right to choose an abortion. As attorney general, he wrote a legal opinion that Gov. Tim Kaine could not protect gay state employees from discrimination in the workplace, and he abandoned neutral analysis when it came to a state constitutional amendment to ban gay marriage." [Roanoke Times, 9/2/2009]
"McDonnell has said he is against abortion in every instance, including rape and incest." [Washington Post, 8/9/09]
In April 2009, McDonnell said that he opposed his alma mater, Notre Dame, awarding an honorary degree to President Obama. [Richmond Times-Dispatch, 4/21/09]
In Bob McDonnell's graduate school thesis at televangelist Pat Robertson's Regent University, McDonnell laid out his vision for the Republican party platform which included belief that working women were "detrimental" to the family and legalization of contraception was "illogical." [Washington Post, 8/30/2009]
"In 2001, he voted against a resolution to support eliminating gender-based wage discrimination. Over the years, he also sponsored or cosponsored three dozen bills to restrict a woman's right to choose an abortion. As attorney general, he wrote a legal opinion that Gov. Tim Kaine could not protect gay state employees from discrimination in the workplace, and he abandoned neutral analysis when it came to a state constitutional amendment to ban gay marriage." [Roanoke Times, 9/2/2009]
"McDonnell has said he is against abortion in every instance, including rape and incest." [Washington Post, 8/9/09]
In April 2009, McDonnell said that he opposed his alma mater, Notre Dame, awarding an honorary degree to President Obama. [Richmond Times-Dispatch, 4/21/09]
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