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Back To The Future: ERA Resurfaces In Tallahassee
BY BUDDY NEVINS, BrowardBeat.com 2/2/2011
[Don’t MISS Sandyo’s ERA response, scroll down.]It’s baaaack!
The Equal Rights Amendment has been reintroduced once again in the Legislature.
Sponsors are Senate Democratic Leader Nan Rich of Weston and state Rep. Lori Berman, D-Delray Beach.
“As the first woman to lead the Democratic Caucus in the Florida Senate, I’m proud to sponsor the ERA,” Rich said in a news release. “I am hopeful that with the ERA’s passage, we will continue the progress that women have made in taking on leadership roles in business, politics, academia and society in general.”
This is an effort to make a statement. Rich and Berman obviously want to show that by sponsoring the ERA, it is the Democrats that care about the rights of women.
Will it pass?
There is a better chance that Senate President Mike Haridopolos will show up in drag at the Capitol than this ever getting to the floor for a vote. Republicans don’t want it.
The ERA, which would enshrine women as equals in the U. S. Constitution, was defeated five times between 1974 and 1982.
Sometimes the vote was close. In 1979 and 1977, it lost in the Senate by just 21-19.
Dempsey Barron’s Role
The defeat of the ERA can be laid at the feet of arguably the most influential Florida legislator ever – Dempsey Barron.
Barron had an unparalleled mastery of legislative rules. He parlayed this skill and his abilities of persuasion to steamroll the Senate into following his lead.
He was so powerful that he once famously threw Gov. Reubin Askew out of “my Senate.”
The Panhandle Democratic senator brilliantly forged a winning alliance in the 1970s and 1980s.
He joined conservative North Florida rural Democrats and some urban Republicans. Together they often thwarted the more liberal Democrats from South Florida on everything from funding to social issues.
In the Senate, the Rules Committee is all-powerful because it controls the legislative calendar. The committee decides which bills can be debated on the floor and which bills die.
Barron was Rules Chairman for a dozen years, in addition to being the Senate president in the mid-1970s. After he left the presidency, he handpicked his successors for years.
Barron hated the ERA. So it was defeated, repeatedly.
Helping to kill the ERA along with Barron were two Broward Republicans – Jim Scott, later a county commissioner, and the late J. W. Stevens of Parkland, who had been a county commissioner before going to the Senate.
Barron died in 2001 at 79, leaving the ERA dead, too.
The ERA today has no chance of being resurrected, even with Barron long in his grave.
Rich and Berman’s effort is noble. It is sadly doomed to failure.
I can almost see Barron smiling.
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RESPONSE TO ABOVE by Sandy Oestreich—on our www.2passERA.org blog 2-3-2011
Sandy Oestreich, Founder-President, Equal Rights Alliance Inc., and ERA Education, Inc.
Former elected official; Prof. Emerita, NY; Co-author, internationally distributed pharmacology texts; Nurse practitioner; Biographied along with Gloria Steinem and other pioneer feminists in Feminists Who Changed America; Wife, mom and windsurfer
RESPONSE:
Sheesh, guess Nevins doesn’t have his ear to the ground these days.
Doesn’t know that Equal Rights Alliance spearheads FL ERA ratification bills EVERY year? Doesn’t know that we also help mentor the 7 other states as they file bills annually, too We only need 3 states more to ratify ERA. N. Dakota recently RE-ratified to show strong intent. Doesn’t know that Florida alone has 300 000 ERA members; 7 newspapers endorsing; 88% of constituents by indep. survey ENDORSING the re-ignited ERA? Has an illustrious Board, with former Cong. Pat Schroeder chairing? Has 7 Regional ERA Directors and often, 49 bill cosponsors–bipartisan, both sexes, even Republican Prime Sponsors; passes Sen. Judiciary 8-3, bipartisan?
Only reason there ARE ERA bills in FL every year is because we rekindled ERA in 2001 by giving speeches everywhere and buttoning legislators as they emerge from the Restrooms. Women, we follow them in and get cosponsorships!
“We don’t fool around”. We WILL do this, absolutely. No way will America remain medieval and out of the loop that all nations since WWII are in. THEY already HAVE an ERA. We share the dark corner with Saudi Arabia, Lestholo, Somalia. Imagine that!
Now that we have the FL legislators inured to Special Interests’ fake Red Herrings like ERA will force women to be in the Catholic pulpits and will make teenagers into prostitutes!!, we are down to brass tacks. Now they understand that ERA BENEFITS BUSINESS and benefits men, too AND requires NO FUNDING, ERA is on the MOVE.
Just wait until the Republican leadership digests the fact that Scandinavia’s GDP grows now that they promote “mainstreaming” of women so they can EARN and pay more taxes!! Makes more sense than Florida does! Give women the freedom of full personhood (that 14th Amendment does NOT), and JUSTG WATCH AMERICA THRIVE.
“Equality under the law shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any State on account of sex”/gender.”
THAT IS ALL THERE IS TO THE ERA so put your tail between your legs if you believe wrongly that ERA regulates anything about samesex or abortion or women in the military or might use your toilet seat!
Get with the program: All are warmly welcomed to http://www.2PassERA.org that other states’ legislators refer to for correct, current, comprehensive ERA Information.
Remember, FL legislators, “you’ve seen us in Tallahassee’s hallways, you’ve seen us endlessly in your offices, and you’re gonna KEEP seeing us there whether in a wheelchair and on oxygen…because WE ARE GOING TO DO THIS.
We are DONE with this repression stuff. Done, I tell you1
Got that, Mr Nevins?
We only need 3 states more to ratify ERA. N. Dakota recently RE-ratified to show strong intent.
No brainer. Republicans
Doesn’t know that Florida alone has 300 000 ERA members; 7 newspapers endorsing; 88% of constituents by indep. survey ENDORSING the re-ignited ERA? Has an illustrious Board, with former Cong. Pat Schroeder chairing? Has 7 Regional ERA Directors and often, 49 bill cosponsors–bipartisan, both sexes, even Republican Prime Sponsors; passes Sen. Judiciary 8-3, bipartisan?
Only reason there ARE ERA bills in FL every year is because we rekindled ERA in 2001 by giving speeches everywhere and buttoning legislators as they emerge from the Restrooms. Women, we follow them in and get cosponsorships!
“We don’t fool around”. We WILL do this, absolutely. No way will America remain medieval and out of the loop that all nations since WWII are in. THEY already HAVE an ERA. We share the dark corner with Saudi Arabia, Lestholo, Somalia. Imagine that!
Now that we have the FL legislators inured to Special Interests’ fake Red Herrings like ERA will force women to be in the Catholic pulpits and will make teenagers into prostitutes!!, we are down to brass tacks. Now they understand that ERA BENEFITS BUSINESS and benefits men, too AND requires NO FUNDING, ERA is on the MOVE.
Just wait until the Republican leadership digests the fact that Scandinavia’s GDP grows now that they promote “mainstreaming” of women so they can EARN and pay more taxes!! Makes more sense than Florida does! Give women the freedom of full personhood (that 14th Amendment does NOT), and JUSTG WATCH AMERICA THRIVE.
“Equality under the law shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any State on account of sex”/gender.”
THAT IS ALL THERE IS TO THE ERA so put your tail between your legs if you believe wrongly that ERA regulates anything about samesex or abortion or women in the military or might use your toilet seat!
Get with the program: All are warmly welcomed to http://www.2PassERA.org that other states’ legislators refer to for correct, current, comprehensive ERA Information.
Remember, FL legislators, “you’ve seen us in Tallahassee’s hallways, you’ve seen us endlessly in your offices, and you’re gonna KEEP seeing us there whether in a wheelchair and on oxygen…because WE ARE GOING TO DO THIS.
We are DONE with this repression stuff. Done, I tell you.
Got that, Mr Nevins?
No brainer, Republicans.
Sandy Oestreich, founder-president of Equal Rights Alliance Inc, and ERA Education Inc.
Prof. Emerita, Adelphi U., NY
Fmr. elected official
Co-author, internationally distributed pharmacology reference texts
Nurse practitioner
Biographied in Feminists Who Changed America
Wife and mom www.2PassERA.org
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