The Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee is drawing attention to the fact that several Republican Senate candidates, including two incumbents, have a history of voting against equal pay legislation on the eve of Tuesday’s Senate vote on the Paycheck Fairness Act. A set of press releases to be sent out Monday afternoon target Massachusetts Sen. Scott Brown, Nevada Sen. Dean Heller, Montana Rep. Denny Rehberg and Arizona Rep. Jeff Flake as well as former Virginia Gov. and Senate candidate George Allen, who won’t taken a position on the bill.
“You would think equal pay for equal work would be a no brainer, but clearly that’s not the case for Republicans like Scott Brown,” DSCC spokesman Matt Canter says in the upcoming release attacking Brown. In 2010, Brown voted with Republicans to filibuster the Paycheck Fairness Act. “It’s possible that Scott Browns pulls an election year etch-a-sketch, but it is more likely that Brown stands with Republicans and spits in the face of middle class families who are struggling in this economy.”
Heller, who was appointed to the Senate in 2011, voted against the Paycheck Fairness bill twice as a congressman, along with Rehberg and Flake. The three of them also opposed the Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act Obama signed in early 2009.
Update: NRSC communications director Brian Walsh responds to Democrats’ attack:
“This pathetic political attack is just the latest effort by Senate Democrats to distract Americans from their failed leadership on the economy and it simply drives home how out of touch they are. While Democrats are busy sending out press releases and ginning up phony attacks, the rest of America is rightfully asking ‘where are the jobs.’”
