Oct 172012
 
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by Greg Sargent

There’s a lot of chatter this morning about Mitt Romney’s claim last night that as Massachusetts Governor, he directed his administration to reach out to women’s groups to find female applicants for government jobs, resulting in them delivering him “binders” full of qualified women.

The tale isn’t quite how he told it, according to Liz Levin, the chair of a women’s group that was right in the middle of the story at the time.

In fact, Levin tells me, the groups initiated contact with him and urged him to hire more women — when he was still a candidate — and began creating the binders themselves on their own initiative before he took office. In fairness to Romney, she says, he did agree to work with them….

 

The truth about Romney and those ‘binders’

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