Dawn Clark Netsch was elected as an Illinois State Senator in 1972 from the city of Chicago, and for the next ten years was a major player in the yearly battles over the passage of the Equal Rights Amendment in the Illinois Senate. She was a strong supporter of the amendment, and talks at length about her leadership role for the pro-ERA in the Illinois Senate, and her disappointment over its ultimate defeat in 1982.
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Portrait of Senator Dawn Clark Netsch.Where:
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Senator Dawn Clark Netsch addresses the Illinois Senate sometime in the late 1980s.Where:
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1991’s Gridiron Dinner invite for the Illinois Legislative Correspondents Association (ILCA) took a gentle jab at an unlikely couple, state Comptroller Netsch and Governor Jim Edgar, as they struggled to tame the state’s budget.Where:
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