The appeal that Gyory saw in that ad was one has often used in her public advocacy, noting that both she and
Ladies looking real sex Mackey Indiana her partner, Catullo, have lost their mothers, and want to ensure that their 85-year-old fathers are able to dance with them at their wedding. Asked to explain what went wrong when advocates lost by a decisive 38-24 Senate margin in December , said, “Bad counting.” She added, “And we lost perspective, which is not surprising on such a personal issue.” The fact that public opinion is shifting decisively toward marriage equality did not mean, Gyory said, that the yes votes by Alesi, Mid-Hudson Valley Senator Saland, and Buffalo freshman Grisanti were not acts of considerable political courage. In fact, he said, he could think of at least Republicans for whom the vote would have been safer politiy. The beneficiaries of their voting yes were other suburban Republicans –– Gyory mentioned Island’s Fuschillo, Flanagan, and Martins and Ball of Putnam County, among others –– who won’t have to face the marriage issue again in , after another year of increasing support for it. Asked by Times reporter Barbaro, who led the Albany bureau’s coverage of the issue, what arguments from opponents he found persuasive, the governor, without hesitating, said “None.” Even as he commended New York Archbishop Dolan for the manner in which he made his case against marriage –– and riffed about his worry that the Catholic Church had eliminated Purgatory as a way station between the best and worst case scenarios –– Cuomo said, “There is no answer from the opposition. There really isn’t. Ultimately, it’s, ‘I want to discriminate.’ And that’s anti-New York. It’s anti-American.” While the entire panel pointed to the positive reaction most New Yorkers have to the enactment of marriage –– Gyory noting that bigger margins oppose undoing the law than originally supported its passage –– Alesi acknowledged the political risk he faces. “I fully expect the Conservatives keep their promise to do everything they can to annihilate me,” he said of the third party that gave him his margin of victory. Yet, Alesi added, nine out of ten Rochester area voters who have approached him to talk about the issue congratulated him on his stand.