GOP Senate Candidate: Equal Pay Laws Are 'Campaign Gimmicks'

North Carolina House Speaker Thom Tillis, the GOP nominee running against Democratic Senator Kay Hagan, is making sorry excuses for his opposition to equal pay laws.

This week, in his second debate against Hagan, Tillis struggled to explain why he blocked the Paycheck Fairness Act in North Carolina's state legislature.

He said, "Let's enforce the laws that are on the books versus some of the campaign gimmicks that are going to put more regulations and make it more difficult."

That's the language candidates use when they don't want to address measures like equal pay, wage and hour laws, workers' rights and other issues. In April, Senate Republicans blocked legislation that would have helped restore pay fairness for women; Kay Hagan was a co-sponsor of the Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act and a strong supporter of the Paycheck Fairness Act.

Hagan responded: "Speaker Tillis, I think you need to read reports. Women in North Carolina earn 82 cents on the dollar. I didn't raise my two daughters to think that they were worth 82 cents on the dollar."

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