Gloria Feldt and Carole Joffee wrote this piece on Huffington Post in honor of the Labor Day holiday tomorrow. Please read the full post for the commentary, but here are the questions they want this GOP presumptive nominee for president to answer:
First, John McCain, do you think women belong in the paid labor force?
So if you accept most women will spend some of their lives in the labor force, do you believe women should earn the same as men, for the same jobs?
Can you explain to us why you voted-twice-against a reauthorization of S-Chip, the immensely popular state children’s health insurance program-a program supported by many in your own party?
Can you explain why your record on children’s issues generally is so bad that the nonpartisan Children’s Defense Fund in its 2007 Congressional scorecard on children’s issues rated you the senator with the worst voting record?
Did Ms. Fiorina fail to get your memo that in order to curry favor with the Religious Right your campaign had to adopt a strict anti-birth control policy?
Why have you abandoned your once nuanced positions [in regard to abortion]?
Senator McCain, where do you stand on these intersecting challenges facing working women?
Is it really your vision that women should be paid less than men, accept unsatisfactory childcare and healthcare for their children, yet have limited access to contraception that could reduce unintended pregnancy and abortion, and risk possible injury or death, when–if you are in a position to appoint Supreme Court justices–abortion becomes once more illegal?
They sure sound like a good place to start, on Labor Day no less.