As we mentioned over the weekend, The New York Times ran an op-ed piece on how NY Governor Peterson needs to re-introduce a same-sex marriage bill that stalled and failed years before with then-NY Governor Spitzer.
NOW!!!!
The NY Time's City Room reveals that Governor Paterson will introduce a same-sex marriage item to the NY legislation later this week!
City Room covers: "The announcement will take place at 10 a.m. on Thursday at Mr. Paterson’s office in Midtown Manhattan, said people who were briefed on the governor’s plans but who asked not to be identified because they did not want to upstage the governor. The fact that Mr. Paterson is introducing a bill does not, however, mean that action in the Legislature is imminent. It could take months — even longer — before the bill makes its way through the appropriate committees and onto the floor of the Senate and the Assembly."
Last week, NY Governor Paterson made some chatter about introducing such a bill, the NY Daily News reports:
"The governor's approach is actually antithetical to the behind-the-scenes lobbying effort being waged by the gay marriage advocates, who were so concerned the GOP would use this potentially controversial topic as a wedge issue that they all-but refused to talk about it during the 2008 campaign, even as gay money poured into the Democrats' coffers and helped them win the majority. As expected, marriage became a key point in the Senate leadership fight, with Sen. Ruben Diaz Sr. flat-out refusing to support Senate Majority Leader Malcolm Smith unless he would promise - in writing - not to let the bill come to the floor...In response to Paterson's comments, Smith spokesman Austin Shafran released a statement saying 'something of this importance demands more than a symbolic gesture or empty rhetoric' and reiterating the leader's pledge that the marriage bill will be allowed to come to the floor when 32 senators have agreed to vote 'yes.'"
In a radio interview Paterson stated: "I’m going to put the bill out and just let people fight it out. If it loses, it loses. And let the parties on both sides have their say. Inevitably, the inertia is that the public will accept this."
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