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Related: About this forumVa. House GOP defeats last-ditch effort to force ERA vote, dooming gender-equality proposal ...
From the Richmond Times-Dispatch
Va. House GOP defeats last-ditch effort to force ERA vote, dooming gender-equality proposal for the year
BY GRAHAM MOOMAW Richmond Times-Dispatch 34 min ago
The Republican-controlled Virginia House of Delegates defeated two efforts to ratify the federal Equal Rights Amendment Thursday, dooming the gender equality measure in the final stretch of the legislative session.
The vote was met with shouts of Shame on Virginia! and Youre embarrassing! from ERA advocates in the House gallery, as well as a smattering of applause from social conservatives who oppose the ERA.
The House deadlocked 50-50 on a rules change that would have allowed the ERA to be brought to the floor for a vote. Del. David Yancey, R-Newport News, who had spoken in favor of the ERA and is facing a difficult reelection in a swing district, voted with the chambers 49 Democrats.
But the tied vote meant the ERA failed in the House, despite passing the state Senate last month on a bipartisan, 26-14 vote.
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BY GRAHAM MOOMAW Richmond Times-Dispatch 34 min ago
The Republican-controlled Virginia House of Delegates defeated two efforts to ratify the federal Equal Rights Amendment Thursday, dooming the gender equality measure in the final stretch of the legislative session.
The vote was met with shouts of Shame on Virginia! and Youre embarrassing! from ERA advocates in the House gallery, as well as a smattering of applause from social conservatives who oppose the ERA.
The House deadlocked 50-50 on a rules change that would have allowed the ERA to be brought to the floor for a vote. Del. David Yancey, R-Newport News, who had spoken in favor of the ERA and is facing a difficult reelection in a swing district, voted with the chambers 49 Democrats.
But the tied vote meant the ERA failed in the House, despite passing the state Senate last month on a bipartisan, 26-14 vote.
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Va. House GOP defeats last-ditch effort to force ERA vote, dooming gender-equality proposal ... (Original Post)
Yonnie3
Feb 2019
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aeromanKC
(3,328 posts)1. Coin flip
Wasnt the GOP majority based on winning a flipping coin flip? If so, let that sink in for awhile.
Yonnie3
(17,491 posts)3. The proverbial coin toss.
It was actually a "lot drawing." Two film canisters in a bowl.
I'm not forgetting.
procon
(15,805 posts)2. Why do Republicans hate-fear-despise women? nt
CaptYossarian
(6,448 posts)4. Here's the part when all wives of Republicans refuse to put out.
In a perfect world, anyway. (But in a perfect world, there would be no Republicans.)