Romney’s ‘Binders Full Of Women’ Didn’t Include Many Judges
Source: Think Progress
In his second debate with President Obama, GOP presidential candidate Mitt Romney was asked how he would close the pay gap between men and women. Rather than answer the question, he instead told a false story about how he requested “binders full of women” to help him select female candidates to serve in his cabinet while he was governor of Massachusetts. In reality, Romney did not request these binders; they were assembled by a bipartisan group called MassGAP and presented to him after his election. According to a UMass-Boston study, “the percentage of senior-level appointed positions held by women actually declined throughout the Romney administration, from 30.0% prior to his taking office, to 29.7% in July 2004, to 27.6% near the end of his term in November 2006.”
As it turns out, Romney also didn’t spend much time going through the binders when it was time to select judges:
By 2005, after two years in office, Romney had nominated 19 judges, of which 17 were men, according to the Associated Press.
With the governor taking heat, a Romney spokesperson argued in a 2005 Boston Globe story that there had a been a lack of qualified women and minority applicants. . . .
Read more: http://thinkprogress.org/justice/2012/10/24/1079701/romneys-binders-full-of-women-didnt-include-many-judges/
Nice story by Think Progress looking at Romney's record appointing women judges. We are talking the 2000s, not the 1950s! No qualified women or minority candidates in Massachusetts? President Obama didn't seem to have any problem finding qualified women.
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bullshit? 
