Massachusetts Senate candidate Elizabeth Warren blasted GOP rival Scott Brown for opening a new front in the GOP war on women.
Warren skewered Brown for rejecting a measure that would have guaranteed women are paid the same amount as their male counterparts.
"It's called equal pay for equal work, which seems not only to be right, it's like the cornerstone of who we are as a people," Warren told MSNBC's Al Sharpton on Thursday.
All Republicans voted against the bill on Tuesday, despite a recent census report that showed women, on average, make 77 cents for every dollar their male counterparts rake in for the same position.
Brown argued the bill would put more burdens on small businesses and could lead to job losses.
Other GOPers, including Republican National Committee Chair Reince Prebius said the Paycheck Fairness Act would result in lawmakers unfairly legislating morality.
"The idea that my Republican opponent and all of his Republican friends line up against that. It's not just wrong, it's deeply worrisome," Warren said.
She went on to criticize presumptive Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney, who is calling for a repeal of financial regulation law Dodd-Frank.
"His notion of freedom, that's not freedom," she said. "That's a world where the biggest guys just beat on the rest of us and say we're taking your money."
Warren is in a heated race against Brown as she tries to capture the seat held for nearly 46 years by Ted Kennedy before Brown won it in a shocking upset in 2010.
The Massachusetts Senate race is considered a must-watch this year, as it is one of the Dems’ few viable opportunities to pick off a GOP-held seat.
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Certainly do hope that Elizabeth Warren wins her election. The Senate needs her sanity, common sense and communication skills.
Yes We need Warren to be in the Senate...There is a lot more women in our population and more of them are working than men.
Businesses and Corporations are benefiting from this arrangement of paying women less. These big businesses will not allow equal pay for equal work..
Businesses have always dumped the heavy workloads that men didn't want onto women..All those jobs that men see as beneath them...
Jobs that do not have a potential for promotion for many years down the road..Job positions that will be the first ones to go during down sizing....
HEY-HEY-HEY men know how to work the system and the male supervisors want their ," CAN BE THERE EVERY DAY MEN" To be there when there is trouble in the company.
The losers are not only the women who are going to be saving less money, but also they will be buying less consumer goods...which means less money into the state tax coffers. Less jobs being created in the work force....More kids that cannot afford college.
If women want this equality with men....Women need to get their priorities in order and stop spending on un-necessary items...
I bet that there was a million pair of shoes bought today that was not needed.
Make big Business squeal like a fat pig...STOP SPENDING. It is $29.95 for a fireproof safe ladies.....When the need to buy overcomes you go count your saved money!!!!
Less Social Security paid in.... means less to draw from after retirement.