Kansas Governor Says Obama Better for Women Than McCain
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Denver - Women face serious economic challenges and will suffer
more than men from the current turmoil, Kansas Gov. Kathleen Sebelius
said.
Sebelius, a Democrat, campaigned for presidential candidate Barack
Obama in Pueblo, Colorado Springs and Denver on Tuesday. She said
women are more likely than men to earn the minimum wage and go without
health insurance and pension benefits.
"Women are at the forefront of the economic crisis," she said
during a panel discussion in Denver.
Sebelius said she is promoting policies that Obama says will
provide economic relief to small business owners, including many
women.
Those policies include lowering taxes and eliminating capital
gains taxes on small and startup businesses, offering a refundable tax
credit of up to 50 percent to help small businesses provide health
insurance and launching a Women-Owned Business contracting program.
Colorado Lt. Gov. Barbara O'Brien, a Democrat, said Colorado is
better prepared than other states for an economic downturn because of
Gov. Bill Ritter's focus on building a new economy around renewable
energy, but she said Colorado won't escape unscathed.
Last week, Ritter implemented a state hiring and construction
freeze anticipating a downturn in revenues and warned it could turn
into a fiscal crisis that could force severe budget cuts.
"Clearly we're going to be facing a bit of a challenge at the
state level," O'Brien said.
Sebelius agreed tough times are ahead, but she said Obama is
better prepared to cope with a crisis than his opponent, Republican
John McCain.
"This country is teetering on the brink of an economic crisis the
likes of which we haven't seen since the Great Depression. There are
serious economic challenges. We can't continue what we've been doing
for the past eight years and expect it to turn out differently,"
Sebelius said.
She said Obama wants to cut taxes on the middle class while McCain
is offering to continue tax cuts for the wealthy that were a
cornerstone of President Bush's policies.
Tom Kise, McCain's Colorado spokesman, said Obama's tax plan would
raise taxes on people making as little as $42,000 a year, hurting
middle class voters.
"That's not pro-women, not pro-business and not pro-economy," Kise
said
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