Greg Abbott opposes easier equal pay lawsuits

By Washington Examiner

Published March 19, 2014 4:00am ET

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Greg Abbott opposes easier equal pay lawsuits — Greg Abbott talks to supporters after winning the primary election Tuesday night, March 4, 2014 making him the Republican candidate for the general election. Abbott clinched the Republican nomination for governor and Democrat Wendy Davis locked up her party's selection, thereby making official a showdown poised to become a record-shattering arm's race of fundraising in a Texas gubernatorial election. (AP Photo/Daily Texan, Shelby Tauber) | Shelby Tauber

AUSTIN, Texas — Texas Republican gubernatorial candidate Greg Abbott says he would not sign a bill to make it easier for women to bring pay discrimination suits, hoping to get past an issue that has dogged his campaign for week.

A spokesman for the campaign told the Associated Press on Wednesday that the attorney general would not sign the proposed law known as the Lilly Ledbetter Act.

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