Obama Kicks Off “Women’s Rally For Change”
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Barack Obama held a “Women’s Rally for the Change We Need” at the University of Miami today, and released an ad featuring Lilly Ledbetter, the Alabama woman whose battles led to the 2007 fair pay legislation that carries her name.
Ledbetter says in the ad, “I’d been paid 40% less than men doing the same work. John McCain opposed a law to give women equal pay for equal work.”
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Jay Gallagher has covered Albany for Gannett News Service since 1984 and has been Albany Bureau chief since 1989. He`s a native of the Boston area and likes to point out that in this millennium, the score is Red Sox 1 championship, the Yankees 0. 
Cara Matthews has been a statehouse correspondent in the Albany Bureau since August 2005. Prior to that, she covered Putnam County government and politics at The Journal News for nearly five years. Before that, she worked at newspapers in Connecticut and covered the state Legislature for one of them. 
