
TRENTON - Garden State Equality activists just mobilized at their West State Street headquarters, received a megaphone buck-up from their leader, Steven Goldstein, and headed for the Statehouse.
"We progressives are fired up, and not just the gays," Goldstein said in a weekend email blast to supporters, which he amplified here this morning.
"If the Democrats don't enact marriage equality now, after years of telling us to wait, it will cause a huge schism between the state Democratic party and its entire progressive base," he added. "And it could change the political landscape of New Jersey permanently."
Goldstein stood at the head of an estimated 250 marriage equality advocates massed on the sidewalk and en route to the Senate Judiciary Committee.
"Can we hold hands, or would that be too..." a woman's voice trailed off.
"Of course you can hold hands," Goldstein told her. "You're gay activists marching for marriage equality."
Goldstein and Garden State Equality want the legislature to move between now and January to enact marriage equality for gays.
Lame duck Democratic Gov. Jon Corzine has pledged to sign a gay marriage bill into law, while his successor, Gov.-elect Chris Christie, says he would not sign such a bill.
Senate Majority Leader Steve Sweeney (D-West Deptford), who today is expected to receive sufficient votes in the Democratic caucus to become senate president, is opposed to affirming marriage equality at this time.
Garden State Equality fires new broadside at Dems Smarting over the state Senate's refusal to pass marriage equality and disillusioned at the moment with the Democratic Party majority, Garden State Equality’s 85-member Board of Directors unanimously decided against giving financial contributions to political parties and their affiliated committees. ...
“We will work harder and smarter to protect consumers, to preserve civil rights, to effectively regulate the alcoholic beverage industry, to ensure that the integrity of New Jersey’s casino gaming industry continues, to keep drives, passengers and pedestrians safe on our streets, to assist victims of crimes, and to remember always the importance of juvenile justice on issues affecting the state." -- Attorney General-designate Paula Dow, at her Senate confirmation hearing.
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It is time to investigate Steven Goldstein
When will the NJ State Ethic Commission will start to investigate Steven Goldstein and his gang who hijacked the NJ Civil review Commission and turned it into a Kangaroo court as we see in third world countries or famous dictatorships.
All the gay commissioners, the gay witnesses and the gay experts took over this fraud of a commission. The champions of equality and diversity made sure they were none in this so called governement sponsored commission.
The now famous New Jersey state corruption runned this travesty from beginning to end with the blessing of Jon Corzine and the press which promoted the lies.
It is time to bring Steven Goldstein to justice.