The marriage equality bill is at the top of the Governor’s active list for the day. Unsurprisingly, this has resulted in a very unhappy Senator Ruben “I Won’t Stand For A Vote On Homosexual Marriage” Diaz Sr.:
Not unexpectedly, the move worsened an already bad situation (as if things could really get any worse in Albany).
It caused Sen. Ruben Diaz Sr. to jump into the open arms of the Republicans – albeit, he claims, just for a little sandwich break – which so worried Sen. Carl Kruger as to the status of his post as Finance Committee chairman that he just HAD to come over and see what was going on.
Diaz Sr. soon returned to the Democratic fold after receiving what Senate sources insist was a pledge from Sen. Malcolm Smith (remember him?) that the marriage bill would never see the light of day.
What all this means is unclear. What IS abundantly clear is NYers want it brought to a vote, and they wrote a TON of letters to make that abundantly clear to their State Senators. MYD President Al Benninghoff is in Albany literally as I type this to deliver our latest stack of letters from newyorkequality.com. Look at the mountain, which is nearly twice the size of the last one:
See quarter for scale. Awesome!
If you haven’t recently made a call to your State Senator or Democratic Conference Leader John Sampson, make the call today! To say that time is running out no longer encapsulates the urgency of the matter. Do it now!
Pride or Protest? – The Daily Politics
