FEDERAL RESERVE/NOMINATIONS/SENATE/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/TRUMP PEOPLE: “The tide in the Senate is showing signs of turning against Stephen Moore, President Donald Trump’s pick for a seat on the Federal Reserve, with one member of Republican leadership voicing strong concern over his disparaging comments about women…Pressed for her specific objections, Ernst added: ‘Look at his writings … I’m a woman.’ Moore, who has not yet officially been nominated, in a 2002 column decried the fact that the NCAA had allowed female referees. ‘Is there no area in life where men can take vacation from women?’ he wrote. He said woman should participate in sporting events ‘if and only if, they look like [sports journalist] Bonnie Bernstein,’ adding that Bernstein should wear halter tops. He also wrote in 2014 that women earning more than men could be ‘disruptive to family stability.’ On Sunday [4-28-19], he apologized for some of the things he has written about women but wasn’t specific. Trump’s selection of Moore had sparked a backlash because he is an overt political ally of the president and has called for Fed Chairman Jerome Powell to be fired for supporting interest rate hikes last year. But his demeaning comments about women have added yet another obstacle to his path to potential confirmation.”
–Victoria Guida, “Ernst ‘not enthused’ about backing Moore for Fed,” Politico, April 29, 2019 8:37 pm