How They Voted: Monserrate
February 9, 2010
by The New Agenda
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The vote to expel went down 53-8.
For the record, all 10 women in the NYS Senate voted “yes” to expel, including 8 Democrats and 2 Republicans. Word is that this block of 8 women Dems were a powerful voice in demanding that the “expel” not “censure” resolution be brought to the floor.
Among the “nay” votes for expulsion were:
Eric Adams, Ruben Diaz Sr., Martin Malave Dilan, Carl Kruger, Pedro Espada Jr., Kevin Parker, John Sampson, and Monserrate himself.
Sen John Sampson is the Democratic Conference Leader. You can contact him here.
Sen Pedro Espada Jr. is the Democratic Majority Leader. You can contact him here.
You can find contact info the rest of them, all Democrats, here
Thanks for posting the nays. I mispoke my the prior post. I meant that Rubin Diaz,jr. insisted that Monserrate was a victim of racism, not Vito Lopez. My bad. Sorry Mr. Lopez!!!
Espada’s blog on the Senate website says he has zero-tolerance for violence against women. He’s also pretty consistent on civil rights (voted yes for gay marriage). I really think his no-vote was a tough decision for him. It wasn’t a vote against women, but a vote against disenfranchisement of hundreds of thousands of people who voted for Monserrate to represent them. I mean, without a clear law on the books about what to do in these cases, isn’t it illegal what the Senate did? At least Espada introduced a fix to the law, so future cases will lead to automatic expulsion, resolving these civil rights questions. I’m more mad at the stupid judge who didn’t see fit to charge Monserrate with a felony than I am at the Senators that voted no last night.
This is a HUGE victory! Congrats New Agenda!
I’d like to give a big shout out to my former State Senator Suzy Oppenheimer who was involved in trying to get Monserrate expelled. I took Suzy to task for not demanding Monserrate be removed from office during the trial and we got into something of a disagreement at an online local paper. But I give Oppenheimer kudos for being a leading voice demanding the removal of Monserrate after the trial.
I think it’s important to give credit where credit is due as well as continue to take those to task who voted “nay” for expulsion. Thank you for this list. I will be sending this to all my New York friends so that they can know just who are the repulsive New York State Senators representing them.
Ines: I really don’t care how gays, people of color or people of minority cultural backgrounds are feeling about Monserrate being expelled. I only see the message that you can not commit acts of hate filled violence against women, 52% of the population, and expect to represent society in civil institutions.
Thanks to New Agenda for leading the charge and to Uppity Woman to posting the information about the outcome. I don’t live in New York, but I hope every woman voter there is paying attention to those who voted “no”. There is no way to rationalize that.
Thank you all.
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Hundreds of thousands of wife- and girlfriend-beaters voted for him to represent their interests? Wow, that many?
And let me ask a quickie little question: If he were a she, who had slashed up a Hispanic man’s face … how likely would you be to bend over backwards to make excuses for anyone who didn’t vote to boot her ass?
Thought so.
Let’s face it, in the grand scheme of things, your femaleness means as much as garbage to you. Just come out and admit that you’re putting women LAST. All kinds of women, including Hispanic women. Including yourself. Just say it, okay?
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