NYC Mayor Michael Bloomberg is far less optimistic about marriage equality coming to New York than, say, our beleaguered Governor David Paterson, who has said he will call a special session to try to get a vote on marriage equality. From Gay City News:
Even as he put the chances of moving a gay marriage bill in Albany this fall at “zero, zero,” Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg argued that he has the political clout to win support from key New York Republican state senators, including two from the city who are vociferous in their opposition.
. . . [but] “I don’t know how to get it to come up,” he said, explaining his view that having the issue move to the Senate floor may prove more difficult than rounding up the votes. “If you want my honest opinion,” Bloomberg continued, the Senate leadership is unlikely to move a gay marriage bill “when I don’t see these guys willing to stand up for less controversial issues.”
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