Over 1500 leters were delivered. See the quarter for scale reference!
Yesterday, MYD Prez Al Benninghoff and NYC City Council Speaker Christine Quinn took a trip to Albany. There, they hand-delivered a stack of over 1,500 letters from New Yorkers across the state asking their State Senators to support marriage equality.
For the past week, newyorkequality.com has been the focus of MYD’s grassroots campaign to get a marriage equality bill passed. The site launched last Tuesday, and to date, over forty thousand people have visited. The site is simple: look up the info for your State Senator, and either send a handwritten letter yourself, or MYD will print out the one you type up and hand-deliver it to your Senator in Albany.
As you can tell from the photo, a lot of people took us up on the offer. Countless others wrote in their own hand, entreating Senators to support legislation giving equal marriage rights to all.
MYD also made an appearance on CNN Live yesterday. Our very own Julie Blitzer (official title: Social Media Strategist; less official title: awesomesauce) joined the blogging heads at 12:15PM yesterday to share our thoughts on Judge Sonia Sotomayor’s nomination and on California’s decision to uphold Prop 8 (boo!). Watch the clips here and here.
MYD Prez Al Benninghoff with City Council Speaker Quinn in Albany
Despite these and many other successes over the course of the past week, the campaign for marriage equality in NY is far from over. We have only 20 solid “yes” votes of the 32 needed for passage of the bill in the New York State Senate. So here’s what you can do (and yes, we know we’re starting to sound like a broken record but it ain’t over till the fat lady sings, or some clever political, metaphorical equivalent we can’t think of right now):
- Join us on Facebook and share it with your friends
- Follow us on Twitter (#nyequality) and retweet us @goMYD to help spread the word
- If you haven’t already, send a letter to your State Senator urging them to support marriage equality
Ready. Set. Click.
This is so amazing! I’m so proud to be a part of this! I feel like I’ve done so much on Facebook promoting http://www.newyorkequality.com and people still ask me what it is on a daily basis! Facebook feeds are fast! It might feel like you’re re-posting it a lot and updating your status at a twittering speed, but it’s important to get it in front of as many NY people as possible!
No sleep till Marriage Equality!
T, I agree. It’s like you have to refresh and send something every six hours!
Onwards and upwards!