The link to the brochure was dead Wednesday morning and the graphic was no longer embedded in the letter from Bauer.

Scott Manley, WMC's top lobbyist, clashed with the group of lawmakers at the press conference. He said afterward that WMC does support pay equity, but it does not support the state's Equal Pay Enforcement Act, which Gov. Scott Walker repealed in 2012. That was what the graphic was meant to indicate, he said.

He called the Democrats' claims that WMC opposes equal pay for equal work "shameful," "unfounded" and "absurd."

The speakers included state Rep. Chris Taylor, D-Madison, Rep. Chris Sinicki, D-Milwaukee — who authored the 2009 law — and Jenni Dye, Dane County supervisor and research director for One Wisconsin Now.

"Equality is not a radical and anti-business value, it is a core American value," Dye said Tuesday. "As a woman who is the daughter of a small business owner, I struggle to understand what is anti-business about thinking that the women of our country and in our state who work for our great state businesses deserve equal pay, and how that is undermining our growth. In fact, it’s undermining our growth not to support these women and their families, and their productivity in the workplace."