Virginia Senators - Other than 15 GOP Men - Vote to Ratify the Equal Rights Amendment

[lowkell]

http://bluevirginia.us/showComment.do?commentId=38510

[abelenkpe]

1. ERA?!

That should have been passed long long ago. But great news!

[gwheezie]

2. Elections matter

I hope every dem in the country votes in 14, our long nightmare of rightwingloonishcity is over in Virginia

[trublu992]

3. What does this mean?

Is this the Era amendment to the Us constitution or is it just for the Virginia constitution?

[okaawhatever]

4. It's to ratify the one introduced in Congress in 1972 nt

[CTyankee]

5. I was working at the national headquarters of the League of Women Voters in

Washington, DC, when that campaign came down to 3 states for ratification. VA and IL were two (I'm trying to remember the 3rd...). I was living in northern VA at the time and was devastated that VA didn't ratify, followed by IL. So the whole project went down with a big crash. The loss just devastated us. We had been working in a coalition with other national liberal groups and every one of them was outraged.

I'm glad VA did this. It is purple and getting more into the blue spectrum with this vote...

[okaawhatever]

6. Better late than....? I'll be interested to hear why they did this. Thanks for your volunteering nt

[CTyankee]

7. You mean, now, why? I don't know, except for all of us who lived through that excruciating

experience, it was something we thought we would try again. "Failure is not an option."

Here is a good explanation of what transpired in that time frame that I lived and worked in: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Equal_Rights_Amendment#Three-state_strategy

It was an interesting, if depressing, time. We thought for sure we would win. The loss was incalculable.

[okaawhatever]

8. Thank you for the info. I look forward to educating myself. nt