The Equal Rights Amendment (ERA) needs only one more state to ratify it before it can become an amendment to the US Constitution. Although State Senator Sandra Day O’Connor and Arizona State Rep. Sister Claire Dunn proposed ratification, Arizona is one of the laggard states that never ratified the ERA in the 1970s. Both Senator … Read more
For the third year in a row, Arizona House Democrats forced a debate and a vote on the Equal Rights Amendment (ERA). On April 16, I made an “emergency motion” to skip over First, Second and Third Readings of HCR2030 and bring the ERA up for an immediate vote. Predictably, the Republicans offered as substitute … Read more
Ratification of the Equal Rights Amendment (ERA) in Arizona was in the news and in the streets this week. ERA supporters launched an ambitious 38 Mile March for the ERA through the streets of Phoenix– starting at the Capitol on Monday, March 11 and ending there on Wednesday. After the speeches, supporters filled the gallery … Read more
On the third and final day of the 38 mile march for the ERA, Democrats in the Arizona Senate used a procedural maneuver to bypass the obstruction of Senate Judiciary Committee chairman “Fast Eddie” Farnsworth (R-Mesa), who blocked any discussion of ERA bills in his committee, by attempting to bring the ERA bill up for … Read more
Somewhat surprisingly, the Arizona Republic today gives decent media coverage to Rep. Pamela Powers Hannley’s “38 Mile March” for the ERA, which kicked off on Monday. Tipping point on ERA? Arizona supporters to march 38 miles to push for ratification: Literally carrying the same banner as women’s rights advocates decades before, Arizonans began a three-day … Read more