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Panel To Discuss Equal Rights Amendment
fication continues to be con- troversial.
Five states have revoked ratification, though some legal experts contend it’s not possi- ble to revoke. Congress placed deadlines for states to ratify that expired decades ago, so
it’s unclear if Nevada and Illi- nois could legally ratify it after the deadline expired.
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On Thursday, October 10th, the Tampa Tiger Bay Club will present a panel of experts to discuss the Equal Rights Amendment, and whether Florida could be the final state to place it in the U. S. Consti- tution.
This luncheon meeting will take place at the DoubleTree Hilton, 4500 W. Cypress St., in the Westshore area.
Lunch will be served at 11:40 a. m., and the program begins promptly at noon.
The panelists will be: Pa- tricia Brigham, President of Florida League of Women
Voters; Political Scientist, Susan MacManus, of Tampa; Michelle Nadeau, an Employment and Labor Lawyer based in Clearwater; and Ed Martin, President of Phyllis Schlafly Eagles, which is a national opponent of the ERA.
Congress sent the ERA to the states for ratification in 1972, but it fell three states short of the necessary 38 states to ratify. Since 2017, Nevada and Illinois ratified the amendment, leaving one more state to place the amendment in the Constitu-
tion.
A push is on to add Florida
to the list of states ratifying the amendment. The amend- ment and the process for rati-
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