MYD | the Manhattan Young Democrats » al benninghoff http://gomyd.com I'm Young. I'm Progressive. Now What? Sat, 11 Feb 2012 02:15:59 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.4 MYD Delivers The Goods http://gomyd.com/2009/05/27/myd-delivers-the-goods/ http://gomyd.com/2009/05/27/myd-delivers-the-goods/#comments Wed, 27 May 2009 12:40:34 +0000 Emmy http://gomyd.com/?p=1699 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… Read More

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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

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):

Ready. Set. Click.

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