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  <content>*UPDATE - The response below is not a direct response from @BobMcDonnell, but rather additional information surrounding McDonnell's controversial thesis the editors of this site added. We would encourage @BobMcDonnell to reply directly to this petition and explain if he voted against equal pay for women because of the views he promoted in his thesis.*

While at Pat Roberton&#8217;s CBN University, 34-yr. Old Bob McDonnell wrote a &lt;a href=&quot;http://media.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/politics/documents/McDonnell_thesis_082909.pdf&quot;&gt;political blueprint&lt;/a&gt; for governing.  He spent the next 20 years working to implement his out-of-the-mainstream social agenda. The Washington Post &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/08/29/AR2009082902434.html&quot;&gt;broke the story&lt;/a&gt; after @BobMcDonnell mislead Post reporters about the content of the thesis during an interview.  The Post said @BobMcDonnell &#8220;pursued at least ten of the policy goals he laid out in the research paper&#8221; during his time in the General Assembly. @BobMcDonnell wrote in his &lt;a href=&quot;http://media.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/politics/documents/McDonnell_thesis_082909.pdf&quot;&gt;thesis&lt;/a&gt;:   

&quot;Further expenditures would be used to subsidize a dynamic new trend of working women and feminists that is ultimately detrimental to the family by entrenching status-quo of nonparental primary nurture of children&#8221;

Maybe that explains why, in 2001, McDonnell voted against equal pay for men and women.

Learn more about @BobMcDonnell's blueprint for governing at &lt;a href=&quot;http://bobmcdonnellblueprint.com/&quot;&gt;bobmcdonnellblueprint.com&lt;/a&gt;
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  <content-truncated>UPDATE &amp;#8211; The response below is not a direct response from @BobMcDonnell, but rather additional</content-truncated>
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  <tweet-text>petition @bobmcdonnell to explain if his thesis is why he voted against equal pay for women.  http://act.ly/ho RT to sign #actly #vagov</tweet-text>
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