Bloomberg Wants a Vote on Same-Sex Marriage *Update*
May 17th, 2011
Gov. Andrew Cuomo may not want to bring same-sex marriage legislation to the floor if it has any chance of failing but Mayor Michael Bloomberg says he thinks a vote is the only appropriate way to judge support of the bill. Bloomberg was in Albany today with Council Speaker Christine Quinn to lobby Republican senators on same-sex marriage legislation and he had this to say on the matter:
“I think the public has a right to know where their legislator stands and the only place where you can really find that out is when they have to register that vote publicly.”
Cuomo told reporters last week that he has no interest in seeing marriage legislation fail again:
“The discussions that I’ve had with the collective group that is working on this in a unified way is we want to pass a bill. we don’t want to bring a bill up in the Senate that will fail, right? We don’t want to have an instant replay of last year. It’s not about having a vote for a sake of a vote. It’s about if it’s going to pass. and the conversations we’re having now will education as to whether we’ll bring the bill to a vote.”
*Update* Bloomberg reportedly stormed out of a meeting with senate Republicans this afternoon looking very unhappy.
By David King on May 17, 2011, 4:15 pmIn category: Albany, Civil Rights, Eye on Albany | 1 Comment »

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