Women, before you vote on Nov. 4 stop and think about what Scott Brown says about women’s issues. When asked about his voting record on reproductive rights and equal pay on Fox news, he suggested that nobody in New Hampshire cares about these issues. Really? What planet does he live on?

When Brown was in the Senate representing Massachusetts, he cosponsored a bill with Sen Roy Blunt that would allow employers to opt out of providing any aspect of health care coverage to which they morally objected, including birth control, blood transfusions and even mammograms.

Twice he voted “no” on equal pay amendments. I was on the training program at Bloomingdale’s in 1961. A month after starting work, I learned that the men who started the same day as I did earned $125 per week while the women earned $85 a week. We took this battle to the president of the store and won. Scott Brown, when senator, voted against the Paycheck Fairness Act which required employers to prove any discrepancies in pay between male and female employees are based on experience or performance, not gender.

He claims he is talking about issues that New Hampshire voters really care about, like repudiating Obamacare. Hence, if elected, he would try to take health insurance away from the 50,000 people in the state who are now insured under the ACA. As a woman, I can see why Massachusetts did not give him a second chance. Now he is trying to woo the women of New Hampshire. We’re smarter than that.

Beth Ann Salzman

Bedford

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