Patricia Arquette won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress. (Robyn Beck, AFP/Getty Images)
As you might expect, Oscar winner Patricia Arquettes call for wage equality once and for all and equal rights for women was received warmly by Democratic lawmakers and top members of President Obamas administration.
House Democratic leader Nancy Pelosi, White House aide Valerie Jarrett and Labor Secretary Thomas Perez were among the Democrats who tweeted support for Arquettes speech, as she accepted the Best Supporting Actress award for her work in Boyhood.
Amen! "Its our time to have wage equality once and for all in the United States of America." Patricia Arquette #Oscars #WomenSucceed
Nancy Pelosi (@NancyPelosi) February 23, 2015
Elisabeth Hasselbeck, a host of Fox & Friends and a conservative, asked on Mondays show whether liberal politics are so pervasive in Hollywood right now to the point that we cant even watch the Oscars.
A Democratic bill long supported by Obama to close the pay gap between men and women failed to get the 60 votes needed to pass last year. All Democrats in the Senate at the time voted for it, while none of the Senate Republicans did so. Today, the GOP controls the Senate and expanded their majority in the House making it even less likely that Arquettes plea will move votes in Congress.
Hollywood has long tilted Democratic and liberal when it comes to votes and money. Obama was the overwhelming recipient of celebrity contributions in the 2012 election. Arquette, for example, donated in past presidential campaigns to Obama, John Kerry and Ralph Nader, according to a review of campaign finance reports kept by the non-partisan Center for Responsive Politics.
Arquette wasnt the only Academy Award winner to offer political commentary last night. Common and John Legend also spoke out about challenges to voting rights as they accepted their award for Best Song for Glory, from Selma.
Source: http://onpolitics.usatoday.com/2015/02/23/patricia-arquette-wage-equality-pelosi-obama/
