Measure 89: Women's rights issue before voters (ERA- Oregon)

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Measure 89: Women's rights issue before voters
Equal Rights Amendment on the Oregon ballot
By Wanda Moore
UPDATED: 1:58 PM PDT October 15, 2014

BEND, Ore. - Forty years after the Equal Rights Amendment was introduced at the federal level, the Oregon Constitution still does not specifically protect women from discrimination.

Now, the ERA is on Oregon's November ballot as Measure 89.

"Forty years after my high school graduation, it was shocking to me that there was not written representation in our Constitution," said Gail McCormick, supporter of Measure 89 said.

"Article 1 Section 20 in the Oregon Constitution was written in 1857, ratified in 1859," said Leanne Littrell DiLorenzo, chief petitioner for Measure 89. "So those same words we live under today are the exact same words that somehow didn't protect women against being discriminated from voting."....

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[Dont call me Shirley]

1. Oregonians need to vote this in! Start a tidal wave of states passing ERA.

That would make that Phyllis Schlafly roll around in her premature grave.

[theHandpuppet]

2. That woman is the female version of Dick Cheney

Nothing short of a house falling on her could bring about her demise.

[Dont call me Shirley]

3. Or if we pass ERA in all 50. It would be like throwing a bucket of water on her wicked witch self.

[theHandpuppet]

4. Even better!

[Dont call me Shirley]

5. It would be a twofer, the falling house, the bucket of water