Action Alert

Use these postcards to stay in contact with your NC state representatives. Host a postcard party with your friends and neighbors! Keep letting them know that North Carolinians want constitutional equality for women and men. 

Our Guide can be used to determine which lawmakers you should contact as a priority and what points you should make: 2019 Postcard and Call Guide

Just in time for Mother’s Day advocacy – Make Mama Happy postcards!
Our previous postcards are available as a downloadable PDF sheet of four postcards – the front and back sheets are below.

2019 postcard 4-up front

2019 postcard 4-up back

Postcards can be sent to the NC Speaker of the House, NC Senate President Pro-tempore, and any legislator that represents one of your members. 

Here’s where you’ll find contact information for the NCGA leadership:

NC Speaker of the House: Rep. Tim Moore http://www.ncleg.gov/Members/Biography/H/339

NC Senate President Pro-Tempore: Phil Berger http://www.ncleg.gov/Members/Biography/S/64

NC House: http://www.ncleg.gov/House

NC Senate: http://www.ncleg.gov/Senate

For those of you active in the Republican Party, here’s a resolution to take to your precinct meetings to gain the support of your county for ERA ratification by North Carolina!

Download the resolution as a Word document: 2018 ERA Resolution Republican Precincts

Text of the resolution:

A RESOLUTION CALLING FOR HEARINGS AND RATIFICATION OF THE EQUAL RIGHTS AMENDMENT  

WHEREAS, Women, who constitute over 51% of the population of North Carolina, continue to confront workplace discrimination; health care inequities; disparate rates of poverty; rape and domestic violence assaults; a lack of political parity; and

WHEREAS, Anti-discrimination state laws are not uniform and federal laws are not comprehensive; additionally, these laws can be repealed or reduced; and

WHEREAS, The Equal Rights Amendment (ERA) is needed to help correct systemic sex discrimination, since the US Constitution does not explicitly guarantee that all the rights that it protects are held equally by all citizens without regard to sex; and

WHEREAS, The ERA was proposed in 1923, passed by Congress in 1972 and ratified by 35 of the 38 states necessary to put it into the Constitution as of a June 30, 1982 time limit; and

WHEREAS, Irrespective of a time limit for ratification, the Nevada Legislature ratified the ERA with a bipartisan vote on March 22, 2017, becoming the thirty-sixth state to ratify the amendment; and

WHEREAS, Congress can alter time limits in the proposing clauses of amendments, and the deadline for the ERA appeared only in the preamble and not in the text of the amendment; and

WHEREAS, Fifteen municipalities across North Carolina have adopted resolutions of support for the ERA in 2017; and

WHEREAS, ERA bills were introduced into both chambers of the North Carolina General Assembly in 2015 and 2017; were assigned to Judiciary and/or Rules Committees, but were not considered in hearings; and

WHEREAS, The North Carolina Republican Party believes in equal rights, equal justice and equal opportunity for all, regardless of race, creed, sex, age or disability; now, therefore, be it

RESOLVED, That the North Carolina Republican Party will prioritize advocating that the General Assembly hold committee hearings upon like ratification bills and all Republicans will pursue ratification of the ERA to the US Constitution as proposed by Congress on March 22, 1972.

Submitted to the _________________ County Republican Party by (name)_________________________________, Precinct #_____, _________________ County February __, 2018. E-mail address: ________________________________________