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Bill Weld on Families & Children
Libertarian Party nominee for Vice Pres.; former GOP MA Governor; 2020 GOP Presidential Challenger
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2000: Supported Family Leave Act, except paid leave
Weld has spoken about a commitment to advocating for LGBT people, people of color and women who experience domestic violence, but he has not talked much about pay equity. And though he wrote in a 2000 article that he thought it was "madness for the
Republicans during the first Bush administration to be opposed to the Family Leave Act," which guaranteed unpaid leave for medical & family reasons, he has not endorsed the idea of paid leave. As governor, he vetoed minimum wage increases.
Source: Abigail Abrams, Time magazine, on 2020 presidential hopefuls
, Apr 2, 2019
Government out of your pocketbook and your bedroom
Massachusetts Gov. William F. Weld addressed the Republican National Convention, evoking a mixture of cheers of cheers and boos when he restated his opposition to the platform's antiabortion plank. The governor, who spearheaded an unsuccessful effort to
reopen debate on the platform's abortion plank, brought up the issue one more time for everyone to hear. "I happen to think that individual freedom should extended to a women's right to choose," Weld said. "I want the government out of your pocketbook
and your bedroom." In an interview with The Crimson later that night, Weld indicated that neither he nor the pro-choice activists within the party intend to let the pro-choice movement lose any steam. Given this year's rumblings, Weld thinks the party
will undergo much change on the abortion issue. "In 1996 the Republican Party will be neutral or pro-choice," Weld said.
Source: The Harvard Crimson, "Weld Speaks on Abortion, Crime"
, Aug 21, 1992
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