Last night's debate was broadcast statewide (video). David Perdue belittled his company's $19 million settlement for gender discrimination and unfairly paying 2,000 women.
Perdue was at Dollar General for four years until leaving in July 2007, and the case covered pay discrimination beginning February 2006, while Perdue was in charge. In contrast, Michelle Nunn supports equal pay for equal work through the Paycheck Fairness Act.
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And Perdue called the minimum wage a "political expedient". He once again showed his opposition to ANY minimum wage standards, after Nunn grilled him.
Nunn eloquently and humbly said
We just disagree about the economics of this, and it doesn't mean that I don't understand business. You've told the citizens of Georgia, when they question your outsourcing career, that they don't understand business. But we do understand business, and I actually do understand what it means to raise the minimum wage. I know that in states right now where they have raised the minimum wage, they actually have greater economic growth and greater jobs than Georgia. Georgia has right now--as you well know--the highest unemployment rate in the nation. And so, we do know a thing or two, those of us that disagree, about business.
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And of course Perdue's career in outsourcing took center stage. Nunn to Perdue: "You've said that people, who question the outsourcing career you have, just don't understand business. So could you tell us and the people, who lost their jobs in places like Cartersville and Calhoun and Milledgeville, just a little bit more about business?"
Nunn's response:
So David, the facts are very clear and they are in a deposition under oath that you said that you spent the majority of your career outsourcing. There were 16 different countries that were listed where you created jobs: India, and Pakistan, China. And whether it's with Gitano or Sara Lee or Haggar, you do have a pattern, here, of outsourcing jobs. So I think that's just the question of: you've run on a business career, and so people deserve to know what that business career involves.