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Take Four
Leanne Littrell DiLorenzo is a
Portland mother to a son and a
daughter, and the founder of Vote
ERA, the organization behind
this November’s Oregon ballot
measure that would prohibit
discrimination on the basis
of gender. We asked her to
answer a few questions:
Q: Why is the time right for the ERA in Oregon?
A: Why on earth would anyone oppose half the
population having their equality written in any
constitution? My 93-year-old grandmother, Lorraine, was
born in 1921, the year after women gained the right to
vote. She stayed at home, raised five kids who all see her
every week still and she sewed clothes and baked pies.
When I asked her why she thinks we need the ERA she
paused and said “it goes without saying.”
Q: What’s the next step for your campaign?
A: The next step for our campaign is outreach. We’d like
to ask all Oregonians to please he