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News and commentary about the anti-gay lobbyDecember 1st, 2009
There is a rumor floating in “the ether” that the NY State Senate will vote today on whether to have their state join those who have embraced marriage equality. This vote depends on a resolution to the state budget, an assumption that seem tenuous at the moment.
UPDATE 3: And… it’s been postponed until perhaps tomorrow.
UPDATE 2: It’s on the agenda. WKBW:
The Senate is scheduled to reconvene at 9 p.m., aides said.
On the agenda: the deficit reduction plan and same-sex marriage.
“We’ll vote on gay marriage if there’s enough time,” said one Senate staffer who asked not to be identified.
UPDATE: It looks possible. From the Daily News’ Elizabeth Benjamin
Here’s the strongest sign yet that the gay marriage bill will indeed come to the Senate floor for a vote before the day is over: Sen. Ruben Diaz Sr., the measure’s most outspoken opponent, has retired to his Albany office to pray.
“I don’t know why it has to be done in special session. I don’t know why it has to be today. Is it going to be done? I believe so,” Diaz Sr. told me rather glumly during a brief telephone interview just now.
The Assembly is going to vote (again) favorably on the bill which seems to remove some procedural objection and increases the pressure on the Senate.
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Dan
December 1st, 2009
There is a minor scandal buried in that piece in the NYDN. The piece quotes Sen. Diaz thusly:
“I don’t know what’s going on anymore. People give you word and then they go back on their word. There is no gentleman’s agreement anymore.”
But we had been told emphatically by the Democratic leaders in the Senate – specifically Malcolm Smith – that there was no gentleman’s agreement of any kind and that Sen. Smith considered this a civil rights issue that was not subject to political bartering. Yet somehow, he always managed to find a reason to not bring it up for a vote. Now we know that he is a liar and that the Senate Dems have been playing gays for suckers for the past 9 months.
Burr
December 1st, 2009
“if there’s enough time” ??
*rolls eyes*
Burr
December 1st, 2009
http://www.wkbw.com/news/local/78279912.html
And nothing happens..
Here’s a crazy idea.. Why not put gay marriage FIRST on the agenda? That should be infinitely faster to get over with than budget wrangling.
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