After waiting over 2 hours in the committee hearing for AJR3 to be heard, the hearing for AJR3 was cancelled!  The room was filled with those wearing STOP ERA badges. They even had to provide for an overflow room!   Perhaps our opponents were not prepared and chose to cancel the hearing.  It’s not too late to contact the committee. THANKS! To all who came.  You scared ‘em! We are counting on you to come next time!

 

MESSAGE:

Vote NO on AJR3: Don’t takeaway my mother’s and grandmothers’ Social Security benefits.

Vote NO on AJR3: Don’t overturn Nevada’s Protection of Marriage Amendment.

Vote NO on AJR3: Don’t make Nevada a Legislative ZERO by passing the ERA.

 

CONTACT: Assembly Elections, Procedures, Ethics & Constitutional Amendments Committee:

Email addresses include first initial and last name of legislators. 

Chairman: hmortenson@asm.state.nv.us , ekoivisto@asm.state.nv.us , mconklin@asm.state.nv.us , whorne@asm.state.nv.us , rkihuen@asm.state.nv.us , hmunford@asm.state.nv.us , johrenschall@asm.state.nv.us , tsegerblom@asm.state.nv.us , dsmith@asm.state.nv.us , tcobb@asm.state.nv.us , hgansert@asm.state.nv.us , jhambrick@asm.state.nv.us , jsettelmeyer@asm.state.nv.us

 

Chairman Mortenson: 775-684-8803, Vice-Chairman Koivisto: 775-684-8597,

Assemblymen: Conklin: 775-684-8505, Horne: 775-684-8847, Kihuen: 775-684-8553,

Munford: 775-684-8545, Ohrenschall: 775-684-8819, Segerblom: 775-684-8549, Smith: 775-684-8841,

Cobb: 775-684-8848, Gansert: 775-684-8837, Hambrick: 775-684-8827, Settelmeyer: 775-684-8843.

 

Contact by Phone:   Northern Nevada 775-684-6789, Southern Nevada 702-486-2626,

Toll Free 800-978-2878 Toll free fax: 866-543-9941

 

ERA Background & Critical Issues:

 By Janine Hansen, former State Chairman of STOP ERA.

 Thirty-six years ago, the “so called” Equal Rights Amendment, a proposed Federal Constitutional Amendment passed the U.S. Congress with a seven-year time limit.  When they failed to get the required 38 states to ratify ERA, Congress passed an unprecedented 2-year extension. Even with the time extension they failed to gain any additional states, and in fact five states rescinded their original ratifications.

 In 1978, ERA was on the Nevada ballot and the people defeated it by a 68% vote, the largest percentage against ERA anywhere in the nation. Now, thirty years later the ERA has surfaced again.  The proponents are pretending there was no time limit on the original ERA.  We all believe in equal pay for equal work, which is already the law.  But, ERA goes far beyond that, and will open a can of worms of contentious and controversial issues, whipping up heated public debate.  

 ERA will insure that there can be no recognition in law that men and women are different. That means:

 1)       Section 2 of ERA would transfer enormous areas of law from state legislatures to the Federal Government including marriage, divorce, family property laws, adoptions, abortions, alimony, some criminal laws, public and private schools, prison regulations and insurance rates.  Senator Sam J. Ervin Jr., a recognized constitutional authority, said: “If this Equal Rights Amendment is adopted, it will virtually reduce the States of this Nation to meaningless zeroes on the Nation’s map.” 

2)       ERA will overturn Nevada’s Protection of Marriage Amendment, which passed with a 70% favorable vote. It will also overturn DOMA, the federal Defense of Marriage Act, which protects individual states. This is because these laws use gender specific language such as “man” and “woman”.

 3)       Federally, it will nullify the homemaker’s Social Security benefit based on a husband’s earnings.  Although most women are working now, this will deny Social Security benefits to our mothers and grandmothers further impoverishing them.  Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsberg makes it clear in her book that ERA would eliminate the Social Security benefits of wives, widows, mothers and grandmothers.