I asked:

Living–and voting!–in a small red state that struggled for a thriving Democratic presence before Howard Dean’s 50-State Strategy, I’m concerned to know your plans to sustain that strong policy. Can we count on you and the National Democratic Party to continue to support Democratic grass roots in all 50 states.

There should be some synergy between both contacting our Congresspeople and the National Democratic party, methinks.

But seriously, all of the above explanations are true, IMHO, but also, it’s part of the reflexive pro-employer/business – anti-employee/worker bias: anything that might require paying any employee more for any reason is “too expensive,” “bad for business,” “socialist,” etc., etc.
It’s in their DNA – to think up reasons to pay less to as many people as possible.

And, I’m not sure why, but that ancient belief that women “don’t need to earn as much as men because men are supporting a family and women aren’t”, despite the riduculous obviousness of its untruth, still hangs on in some folks. I have actually heard some recent stories of women asking for a raise or for more starting pay being told that old canard as the reason for denial of their request. My jaw dropped the first time, less the second. Of course, I am here in Texas, a wierd mixture of modern and traditional attitudes that manifest themselves in sometimes astonishing ways.

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