{"id":1002746,"date":"2018-10-26T14:25:40","date_gmt":"2018-10-26T14:25:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/democrats.org\/?p=1002746"},"modified":"2024-05-23T20:15:15","modified_gmt":"2024-05-23T20:15:15","slug":"dnc-on-chris-sununu-calling-paid-family-leave-vacation-again","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/democrats.org\/news\/dnc-on-chris-sununu-calling-paid-family-leave-vacation-again\/","title":{"rendered":"DNC on Chris Sununu Calling Paid Family Leave Vacation\u2026 Again"},"content":{"rendered":"<p dir=\"ltr\">DNC Women\u2019s Media Director Elizabeth Renda released the following statement after New Hampshire\u2019s Republican Governor Chris Sununu referred to paid family leave as <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=Tn1cKoSyWxU&amp;mc_cid=f3637e4e39&amp;mc_eid=3d8c9938c1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\u201cvacation\u201d<\/a> for the <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/CMonitor_JVF\/status\/1055848511395250177\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">second time<\/a>:<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">\u201cFool me once, shame on you. Fool me twice, shame on me. This is the second time Chris Sununu has \u2018misspoken\u2019 and callously referred to paid family leave as \u2018vacation.\u2019 We don\u2019t have to wonder where he stands on this issue &#8211; he\u2019s made it clear. Sununu is dangerously out of touch with New Hampshire\u2019s women and working families, and the Granite State deserves better.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">\u201cPaid family leave exists for life-altering experiences like the birth of a child or a serious illness, and to dismiss these policies as \u2018vacation\u2019 is ludicrous. Women represent the vast majority of caregivers in the United States, and paid family leave allows them to remain in the workforce as breadwinners in their families. Sununu\u2019s comments are blatantly disrespectful to working women and families, but sadly, they come as no surprise. The governor claimed to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=VuYwG4fJab8&amp;feature=youtu.be&amp;mc_cid=f3637e4e39&amp;mc_eid=3d8c9938c1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\u2018absolutely\u2019<\/a> support paid leave during his campaign, only to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.unionleader.com\/article\/20180415\/NEWS0604\/180419542?mc_cid=14f5a89105&amp;mc_eid=e92e38e110&amp;mc_cid=f3637e4e39&amp;mc_eid=3d8c9938c1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">kill the paid family leave bill<\/a> that passed the New Hampshire House after he took office.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">\u201cSununu and his Republican colleagues continue to turn their backs on working families by disparaging paid family leave and advocating for policies like the GOP tax scam, which gives large corporations and the ultra-wealthy a tax break at the expense of the middle class. Meanwhile, Democrats like Molly Kelly are fighting to make life easier for working families, not harder, and we\u2019re proud that fighting for paid family leave for women and caregivers is a critical tenet of our platform.\u201d<\/p>\n<div class=\"yj6qo\"><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>DNC Women\u2019s Media Director Elizabeth Renda released the following statement after New Hampshire\u2019s Republican Governor Chris Sununu referred to paid family leave as \u201cvacation\u201d for the second time: &nbsp; \u201cFool me once, shame on you. Fool me twice, shame on me. This is the second time Chris Sununu has \u2018misspoken\u2019 and callously referred to paid [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":263,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1002746","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-press-release"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.0 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>DNC on Chris Sununu Calling Paid Family Leave Vacation\u2026 Again - Democrats<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/democrats.org\/news\/dnc-on-chris-sununu-calling-paid-family-leave-vacation-again\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Democrats\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2018-10-26T14:25:40+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2024-05-23T20:15:15+00:00\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"Claire DePree\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"Claire DePree\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"1 minute\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/democrats.org\/news\/dnc-on-chris-sununu-calling-paid-family-leave-vacation-again\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/democrats.org\/news\/dnc-on-chris-sununu-calling-paid-family-leave-vacation-again\/\",\"name\":\"DNC on Chris Sununu Calling Paid Family Leave Vacation\u2026 Again - 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