Gov.: There’s room in special session for gay-marriage vote
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Gov. David Paterson said there’s no reason why a number of non-budget issues shouldn’t be on the agenda for the upcoming legislative session, including a vote on legalizing gay marriage.
“Well we have a number of issues that were not resolved at the end of the session because of the upheaval in the Senate, and since we are having a special session, I don’t see any reason not to continue to address them, including public authority reform, which we’re trying to work out,” he said.
He was referring to a month-long stalemate in the Senate that began last June and ended in July. Senators left Albany without resolving some major legislation that had been on their plate.
The Democrat-controlled Assembly has already passed the gay-marriage bill. The Senate has 32 Democrats and 30 Republicans, but the bill would need some GOP support because not every Democrat is expected to vote yes.
Assembly Corporations, Authorities and Commissions Chairman Richard Brodsky, D-Greenburgh, Westchester County, has been working with the governor’s office on a deal for reforming the state’s system of public authorities.
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Jay Gallagher has covered Albany for Gannett News Service since 1984 and has been Albany Bureau chief since 1989. He`s a native of the Boston area and likes to point out that in this millennium, the score is Red Sox 1 championship, the Yankees 0. 
Cara Matthews has been a statehouse correspondent in the Albany Bureau since August 2005. Prior to that, she covered Putnam County government and politics at The Journal News for nearly five years. Before that, she worked at newspapers in Connecticut and covered the state Legislature for one of them. 
