Speaking on a conference call with bloggers, DNC chair Debbie Wasserman Schultz mocked Mitt Romney’s campaign for being unable to come up with an immediate answer earlier in the day as to whether the candidate supported the Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act.
“For the president, equal pay for equal work has always been a no brainer,” she said. “Meanwhile on a question that shouldn’t have required a milisecond of hesitation, Mitt Romney’s aides responded with a deafening six second silence followed by ‘We’ll get back to you on that.'”
She continued: “Romney’s spokeswoman then attempted to pivot by saying Romney is not interested in changing current law but that wasn’t the question,” adding that Romney’s campaign did not answer whether he would sign a bill repealing the legislation or whether he would have signed it as president himself in 2009.
According to the chair, the episode offered “yet another glimpse of the vastly different direction Mitt Romney wants to take us — it’s a sharp turn to the right.”
