TNA in the News: Building Pressure on Monserrate
October 30, 2009
by Amy Siskind
|The New Agenda continues to speak out on violence against women and teenage girls.
Our collective action on Monserrate is in the New York media:
Women’s Groups Start Petition To Oust Monserrate
Sen. Krueger’s Call for Monserrate’s Resignation Catalyzes a Movement
Siskind said that the trial outcome wasn’t what she or her group expected. “We were very surprised that he got away with it,” Siskind said. “He deserves to be in jail plain and simple — this is a text book, gender-based, violence-type case where the girlfriend is abused and initially speaks out and then is intimidated into silence.”
Although disappointed with the outcome of Monserrate’s trial, Siskind said she and the New Agenda won’t stop working until the senator resigns. “We are going to continue to work and to galvanize as a coalition of organizations,” Siskind said. “That’s our next step and we’ll just continue to keep the heat on until he resigns,” Siskind said. “However long that takes we’ll keep going.”
Krueger spoke of her future hope. “I hope Mr. Monserrate wakes up tomorrow morning and says, ‘I don’t have any future in the senate, my colleagues have started a committee to figure out how to sanction me. I can’t win reelection next year in my district and the people who are calling me to resign are right,’ and that he will resign, that’s what I’m hoping for.”
Siskind passionately agreed. “The fact of the matter is that he was found guilty of a charge related to domestic violence and he needs to resign. Period. End of sentence.”
Gretchen Carlson
Claudia Poccia
Jacki Zehner
THANK YOU FOR NOT SAYING, “We wish he’d resign, but we know we can’t possibly win because we’re just weak girls, so we’ll call for a few strong words and a slap on the wrist.”
RESIGN. Evaporate, preferably. (Or drop dead.)
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