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Posted on 07/16/2011 1:49:04 PM PDT by NYer
New York (CNN) - Republicans in New York's state Senate who crossed party lines to legalize gay marriage in the state have seen sharp increases in their campaign coffers, leading conservative activists to allege their votes were bought.
State Sen. Mark Grisanti of Buffalo, for instance, amassed just $30,000 from May 1 to June 24, the day same-sex marriage was approved. But in the two-and-a-half weeks after his vote, Grisanti reported receiving $73,000 in contributions – including huge donations from high-profile gay rights supporters like New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg and Tim Gill, who is based in Colorado.
For State Sen. Roy McDonald, whose districts include Rensselaer and Saratoga counties, the weeks following his vote proved even more lucrative. After receiving $31,000 in the two months preceding the vote, McDonald garnered approximately $90,000 in just 17 days, more than doubling his total haul for all of 2011, according to Bill Mahoney, legislative operations and research coordinator for the New York Public Interest Research Group.
Three of the four Republican supporters of gay marriage denied multiple requests for comment on the spikes. But conservatives were quick to decry the flood of donations.
"They consistently and adamantly said they were opposed to same-sex marriage," said the Rev. Jason McGuire, executive director of New Yorkers for Constitutional Freedoms. "But after some meetings with major financial backers their position flipped, and they're now raking in tens of thousands of dollars."
Michael Long, chairman of the New York State Conservative Party, likewise alleged that the Republicans voted for gay marriage "because of the largesse of money now flying through their accounts."
State Sen. Ruben Diaz, the lone Democrat to oppose the bill, also questioned the senators' motives and called for New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman to launch an investigation.
(Excerpt) Read more at politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com ...
How arrogant!
Anyone that votes to make perversion legal and acceptable has no right to hold elective office and must be voted out.
Is that about how much 30 pieces of silver works out to these days?
Money is one thing, votes are another. We will have to wait until the next election to see if they get tossed. I am hoping they get beat in a primary rather than a general election.
How many pieces of silver did each one of these bas**rds get?
Political whores who sell their votes.
Senator James Alesi is a liar.
After voting for the “gay” marriage bill, Alesi said he was “embraced by a priest at mass” for his support.
What Alesi failed to mention is that the priest and his religious community were excommunicated from the Church.
Degenerate evil SOB's might be living large now, but things even out in the end.
Mario and Andrew will be serving shit sandwiches.
There is no “alleged” to it.
Cuomo (or emissareis of his) sat with some New York fat cats in the GOP, one of who reportedly has a “gay” son.
They asked for the fat cats “support” getting some GOpers in the NY Senate to switch their votes.
Everyone in the Conversation knew that “support” was going to mean the fat cats aid in fund raising for the next campaigns for the GOPers who switched votes, because their usual local funding sources may not continue supporting them after that vote.
It’s all done with a legal wink and a nod. But there is no “alleged” to it. It is payola for votes.
Already in progress ..
Governor Cuomo and the New York Legislature imposed same-sex marriage on New York with no vote of the people. Voters in 31 other states have been able to decide the definition of marriage for their states, but New Yorkers have been denied that right!
Stand up to protest the redefinition of marriage and demand your right to vote!
If New York is going to change the definition of marriage, it should be the People and not the politicians who make the decision!
Let the People Vote! Join us on July 24 [at 3pm] in NYC, Albany, Rochester and Buffalo to let your voice be heard! Additional details coming soon...
That would certainly be poetic justice.
Have the good, patriotic people in NY (i.e., conservatives) vote for the Conservative Party. Stop supporting these rats at the ballot box. They’ll always stab us real Americans in the back.
Alessi is worse than that. Remember how he trespassed on people’s property, broke his leg climbing a ladder, and then wanted to sue the owners the day before the statute of limitations expired?
The most compliant legislature money can buy.
Something similar happened here in MA, when the question came up of allowing a referendum on the ballot to limit marriage to one man-one woman. There were 5 Democrats who had said they WOULD vote to allow the referendum, but Deval Patrick, who was running for Governer at the time, and was expected to win, offered them something, I'm not sure what, but all five of them changed their minds. Unfortunately, their constituents didn't seem to even notice, because they were all re-elected without a problem.
So none of the VOTERS in MA or NY had any say in the matter, even though the majority in the polls were against it; the legislators seemed to vote in the way that would enrich them the most.
This calls for Americans to stand up for themselves in civil disobedience to the moneyed barbarians Cuomo, Bloomberg and company... but how?
Republicans in New York's state Senate who crossed party lines to legalize gay marriage in the state have seen sharp increases in their campaign coffers, leading conservative activists to allege their votes were bought... Michael Long, chairman of the New York State Conservative Party, likewise alleged that the Republicans voted for gay marriage "because of the largesse of money now flying through their accounts." State Sen. Ruben Diaz, the lone Democrat to oppose the bill, also questioned the senators' motives and called for New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman to launch an investigation.
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