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Those binders full of women? Not Mitt's idea
by Idéfix Wed Oct 17, 2012 4:04 pm
Remember Mitt Romney's response to a question on equal pay for women? He told a story of how he went looking for qualified women.
Apparently he wasn't being entirely truthful about that one either.
Romney’s account of that story is false, according to two women who led an effort in 2002 to recruit female candidates to high-level appointed positions in Massachusetts. MassGAP, a bipartisan coalition of women’s groups dedicated to increasing the number of women appointed to top government jobs, approached Romney and his Democratic challenger Shannon O’Brien before the 2002 gubernatorial election and pressured them to sign a pledge to appoint more women if elected.
“It was an initiative of women’s organizations, not to force [Romney’s] hand, but to make it be something he had to follow through on,” Carol Hardy-Fanta, former co-chair of MassGAP’s higher education subcommittee, told The Huffington Post the morning following the debate. "He didn't go out looking for these binders.”
Liz Levin, who was the chairwoman of MassGAP at the time, told HuffPost that during the 2002 governor's race, the group spent months identifying, vetting and collecting resumes of qualified women for the high-level appointments.
"They told us ... that they were going to send [the binders] to us,” O’Brien recalled in a Wednesday interview with The Huffington Post. “Whoever won was going to get this."
Not once did Romney meet with MassGAP, Levin said. "I personally thought he was busy," she explained.
In an interview with HuffPost after the debate, Healey -- currently special adviser and foreign policy coordinator for Romney's 2012 campaign -- confirmed that MassGAP had been working with the Romney campaign before he was elected governor. She said Romney had "let it be known" that he was interested in hiring women and minorities.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/10/17/romney-binders-full-of-women_n_1974092.html
Apparently he wasn't being entirely truthful about that one either.
Romney’s account of that story is false, according to two women who led an effort in 2002 to recruit female candidates to high-level appointed positions in Massachusetts. MassGAP, a bipartisan coalition of women’s groups dedicated to increasing the number of women appointed to top government jobs, approached Romney and his Democratic challenger Shannon O’Brien before the 2002 gubernatorial election and pressured them to sign a pledge to appoint more women if elected.
“It was an initiative of women’s organizations, not to force [Romney’s] hand, but to make it be something he had to follow through on,” Carol Hardy-Fanta, former co-chair of MassGAP’s higher education subcommittee, told The Huffington Post the morning following the debate. "He didn't go out looking for these binders.”
Liz Levin, who was the chairwoman of MassGAP at the time, told HuffPost that during the 2002 governor's race, the group spent months identifying, vetting and collecting resumes of qualified women for the high-level appointments.
"They told us ... that they were going to send [the binders] to us,” O’Brien recalled in a Wednesday interview with The Huffington Post. “Whoever won was going to get this."
Not once did Romney meet with MassGAP, Levin said. "I personally thought he was busy," she explained.
In an interview with HuffPost after the debate, Healey -- currently special adviser and foreign policy coordinator for Romney's 2012 campaign -- confirmed that MassGAP had been working with the Romney campaign before he was elected governor. She said Romney had "let it be known" that he was interested in hiring women and minorities.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/10/17/romney-binders-full-of-women_n_1974092.html
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