The Placer County Democratic Central Committee is officially postponing our 2020 Roosevelt-Kennedy dinner. We will attempt to re-schedule this dinner for late summer or early fall.

While most of the country was watching the results from across the nation, Placer County Democrats were watching local races more intently.

The Equal Rights Amendment reads: “Equality of rights under the law shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or any State on account of sex.”

The E.R.A. was first proposed in 1923 but wasn't passed by Congress until 1972. It then needed to be ratified by 38 states by 1982 to be added to the Constitution, but only 35 states ratified it in time.