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Virginia and New Life for the E.R.A.?
Even as Virginia's leadership crisis continues, Jennifer Carroll Foy, delegate representing the second House district of the Virginia General Assembly, and Kamala Lopez, actress, activist, and founder and executive director of Equal Means Equal, talk about efforts to make the state the 38th to approve the E.R.A. — the required number for final ratification — and why they dispute the 1982 deadline imposed by Congress.
"The fact that this has been glossed over and that two generations of women have been gaslighted to believe they have what they don’t is a massive civil rights violation of the majority of the population." 2/2 https://t.co/ofeFGa1gYp
— Brian Lehrer Show (@BrianLehrer) February 14, 2019"With 81 percent of all Virginians supporting the Equal Rights Amendment... we should be able to push the button and make the voices of our people heard," says @JCarrollFoy on the breaking news that the ERA being alive and well in Virginia.
— Brian Lehrer Show (@BrianLehrer) February 14, 2019Brian I have waited and hoped and despaired my entire LIFE for the ERA amendment to become the law of the land
— Ruth Mullen (@ramullen) February 14, 2019