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...signal that if feminists want the ERA, they're going to have to go about it in a different way. "The fate of the ERA lies in the hands of 30 state legislators around the nation" who will not be moved by out-of-state "noisy women," Anne Ramsay, travelling advocate for the ERA and a member of the President's Advisory Commission on Women, argues. NOW's hell-raising in Illinois--and the wholesale immigration of out-of-staters whom legislators were quick to label "carpet baggers"--was "politically naive," Ramsay says. "It was a great demonstration of emotion...
...Ramsay advocates lobbying influential local leaders, particularly businessmen, to throw their support behind the ERA effort; she says the success of her National Business Committee for ERA is proof of policy. She dismisses NOW assertions that stronger efforts by President Carter could sway votes in crucial states. "He can do a lot," Ramsay says, "but the influence has to come from within the states themselves...
...Gordon Ramsay, a lawyer for developers attempting to convert an apartment building at 295 Harvard St. to a cooperative, warned the council last night that individual members might be "held liable for considerable money damages" if they "interfered" with the formation of cooperatives...
...Ramsay charged that attempts to thwart cooperative development "violated the fundamental guarantees of the federal constitution to the right of property...
...Ramsay said all women as well as men must be brought into the battle against sexism...