Arizona Democrats Push ERA One More Time, Republicans Block Them Again

[TexasTowelie]

For the third time in three years and the second this legislative session, Arizona Democrats tried Tuesday to force a vote on the Equal Rights Amendment in the state legislature.

Once again, Republicans blocked them, along with any real debate on equal pay or other salient aspects of gender equity, effectively killing all chances of the ERA's ratification in Arizona this year.

Representative Pamela Powers Hannley, a Democrat from Tucson, made the motion to bring a resolution to ratify the ERA to a vote. She had to invoke an emergency declaration to do so, because the resolution had never had a first reading in the House.

Then Republican Warren Petersen made a motion to table Powers Hannley's motion.

Read more: https://www.phoenixnewtimes.com/news/arizona-democrats-give-the-era-one-more-push-11271623

[walkingman]

1. The GOP are a bunch of spineless wimps who are afraid of women.