So Romney claims he asked for qualified female candidates for cabinet positions when he became governor. He made it sound as if he was appalled that all the appointees were men. They handed him “binders full of women” when he asked.
Which is a lie. Those binders already existed, put together by a group called MassGAP prior to his election as governor to address exactly this problem—the lack of women in high positions in state government—which were then handed to him by this group upon his election. He didn’t ask for it, he was given it.
He subsequently appointed women to close to 40% of his cabinet. …