New York City council speaker Christine Quinn said she wants to hear New York state senate majority leader John Sampson commit to bring the marriage equality bill to the floor for another vote as quickly as possible.Quinn, who is gay, appeared on the Capitol Tonightprogram about state politics Friday, when she was asked her thoughts on the Democratic senate leader’s refusal to commit to a vote timeline. Sampson, who leads an imperiled 32-30 majority in the senate, came under fire from the Stonewall Democratic Club this weekend for his support of antigay incumbent Democrats and his hesitancy about the marriage equality bill.
The speaker said, “As a member of the LGBT community in New York, I want to hear that it’s going, that the bill is going to the floor and that it’s going to happen as soon as possible. And I understand why Senator Sampson might not want to say that, I really do, from the perspective of being as a legislative leader myself. But I want to hear that, and I also think that in this case it would be strategically helpful to the overall efforts to move the bill forward, which I know Senator Sampson wants to do.”
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