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Obama’s day trip highlights economy, courts donors
pbs newshour ^ | 6-17-2014 | JIM KUHNHENN

Posted on 06/17/2014 11:36:10 AM PDT by Citizen Zed

Obama arrived Tuesday afternoon in Pittsburgh, where he will visit a workshop designed to give entrepreneurs, inventors and creators the space and the tools to design and build their prototypes.

He then will fly to New York City for a gala lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender fundraiser for the Democratic National Committee.

The fundraiser comes a day after the White House announced plans for Obama to sign an executive order prohibiting federal contractors from discriminating against employees on the basis of their sexual orientation or gender identity.

Obama lacks authority to extend that protection to all Americans, but the order being drafted by the White House would affect about 14 million workers whose employers or states currently do not prohibit workplace discrimination against gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender individuals.

The scope of the measure was tabulated by the Williams Institute at UCLA Law School, which studies sexual orientation and gender identity law and public policy.

(Excerpt) Read more at pbs.org ...


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If he only had more authority.
1 posted on 06/17/2014 11:36:11 AM PDT by Citizen Zed
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To: Citizen Zed

Amazing to me that there are still those fool enough to toss any more money in his direction.


2 posted on 06/17/2014 11:40:25 AM PDT by formosa
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To: Citizen Zed

Obsequious media lickspittles at PBS can take their taxpayer funded worship of Obama and the State and stick it.


3 posted on 06/17/2014 11:42:45 AM PDT by skeeter
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To: formosa

Amazing to me that those fools have money to throw at this POS...


4 posted on 06/17/2014 11:54:06 AM PDT by Common Sense 101 (Hey libs... If your theories fly in the face of reality, it's not reality that's wrong.)
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To: Citizen Zed; GeronL

Courts Donors should be the lead of the headline, that’s what ALL of these taxpayer funded publicity appearances is about.


5 posted on 06/17/2014 1:08:53 PM PDT by a fool in paradise (The new witchhunt: "Do you NOW, . . . or have you EVER , . . supported traditional marriage?")
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To: Citizen Zed

What a bunch of BOLSHEVIK! mr. mulatos are about two things only, collecting cash and playing golf, and all done on the taxpayers dime. So once again we say domo arigato mr. mulato!


6 posted on 06/17/2014 1:14:05 PM PDT by Mastador1 (I'll take a bad dog over a good politician any day!)
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