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07.14.2009 11:56am EDT
(Albany) New York Governor David Paterson announced that he will push the State Senate to vote on legalizing same-sex marriage in a special session in early September. Gov. Paterson, a supporter of marriage equality, said that he will push for the vote in the fall because the Senate is not in the right mind to vote on such an issue now.
Though the New York Senate passed over 100 bills Friday night, they did not vote on several big issues, such as marriage equality and mayoral control of city schools.The Senate had been enduring a month-long stalemate after State Senator Pedro Espada Jr. switched sides to align with the Republicans. On Thursday, Espada rejoined the Democratic Party and was appointed senate majority leader. Former Senate Majority Leader Malcolm Smith remains Senate president and Senator John Sampson became the Democratic conference leader.
Read the full NY1 story with video here.
This is why I don’t like politics. It’s not just this type of legislation, it’s all legislation. Why can’t they just vote on things? Either it passes or it doesn’t, just vote instead of drawing it out and trying to avoid a vote for months. The people that elect these people deserve to know what their representatives think on different issues and a vote is the best way to see.
Yet another delay. How long does he think he has to delay it before he can just quietly drop it?
He is what my prediction for these next states to allow same sex marriages will be:
* Maine will not have SSM, by a 53 percent vote against on a ballot (wait until 2012).
* Washington state, Indiana, DC and California in 2010
* Rhode Island, Illinois, Minnesota and New Jersey in 2011
* New York, Nevada and Maine in 2012
* Oregon, Maryland and Delaware in 2013
ALREADY LEGAL IN:
* Massacussetts
* Connecticut
* Iowa
* Vermont
* New Hampshire
* Maine (although implemented the ballot was agreed to at over 50,000 signed petition means delayed and no support for SSM in Maine)
NOTE:
* Remember only 47 percent support same-sex marriage in Maine.
* Remember only 48 percent support same-sex marriage in California.
Yet another delay. Seriously, NY Assembly has to get itself out of its turmoil before it can begin to do anything much.
It has to sort itself out and get its head screwed on right first. Marriage equality bills will needlessly flounder and languish in such an environment. Neighboring New Jersey will likely pass its marriage equality law before NY State passes its own.
I always thought that NY prided itself on being profoundly progressive?
Well… As someone from the deep South, who has a sister that’s lived in NYC for over ten years, I can tell you, the N.E. isn’t as progressive as its rep.
Perfect example. Open discrimination in housing is still widely accepted and practiced in the NE, under a horrid little entity called “co-op boards”, where one must seek “board approval”. One can be denied housing if others in the building think you simply “won’t fit in”.
When you consider weird crap like that still existing, it’s not surprising NY doesn’t have marriage equality yet.