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New Jersey Marriage Inequality Vote: How lawmakers voted; Who to
Remove From Office.

The New Jersey State Senate has voted for discrimination and Marriage Inequality. The Twenty New Jersey State Senators Listed Below Who Voted No, for
Discrimination, and the three abstainers, who could have reversed the outcome, should be Voted Out Of Office!
The final vote tally was Yea- 14, Nay-20, 3 Abstentions, 2 Absentees.
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From N.J.com:

The debate ended, the votes were cast, and all eyes turned toward the
board in the Senate chamber that shows the tally by flashing a green
or red light next to each name.

It was not close. With Democrats in firm control of every lever of
power in Trenton, they could not deliver, not by a long shot.

At the end, Democrats stumbled away like a defeated army. The board
showing the vote tally, which sometimes stays on for hours, was
snapped off quickly, as if they were ashamed of it.

“This should have been a slam dunk,” said Sen. Ray Lesniak, one of the
party’s frustrated power brokers.

The victims this time were the thousands of gay couples across this
state, and their children, who just got a slap in the face. The
message opponents delivered to them was an ugly one, whether it was
inspired by religion, by tradition or by old-fashioned bigotry. They
are secondclass families who cannot join the club.

More:
http://blog.nj.com/njv_tom_moran/2010/01/nj_gay_marriage_vote_a_final_t.html

How lawmakers voted
By The Star-Ledger Continuous News Desk
January 07, 2010, 5:28PM

- Hide quoted text -
Tony Kurdzuk/The Star-LedgerGay marriage bill supporters watch in the
fnal seconds of the vote as it is voted down by the seante the at the
Statehouse today.Here’s how state Seantors voted today on the measure
to allow same-sex marriage in New Jersey. The bill failed to pass.

YES (14)

Sen. Jim Whelan (D-Atlantic)
Sen. Bob Smith (D-Middlesex)
Sen. Barbara Buono (D-Middlesex),
Sen. Raymond J. Lesniak (D-Union), co-sponsor
Senate President Richard Codey (D-Essex)
Sen. Teresa M. Ruiz (D-Essex)
Sen. Sandra B. Cunningham (D-Hudson)
Sen. Brian P. Stack (D-Hudson)
Sen. Nia H. Gill (D-Essex)
Sen. Loretta Weinberg (D-Bergen), co-sponsor
Sen. Robert M. Gordon (D-Bergen)
Sen. Nicholas P. Scutari (D-Union)
Sen. Joseph F.Vitale (D-Middlesex)
Sen. Bill Baroni (R-Mercer)

NO (20)

Sen. Jeff Van Drew (D-Cape May)
Sen. Ronald L. Rice (D- Essex)
Sen. John A. Girgenti (D-Passaic
Sen. Nicholas Sacco (D-Hudson) .
Sen. Fred H. Madden (D-Gloucester)
Sen. Shirley K. Turner (D-Mercer)
Sen. Robert W. Singer (R-Ocean)
Sen. Joseph Pennacchio (R-Morris)
Sen. Christopher Bateman, (R-Somerset)
Sen. Tom Kean Jr. (R -Union)
Sen. Jennifer Beck (R-Monmouth )
Sen. Joseph M. Kyrillos (R-Monmouth)
Sen. Gerald Cardinale (R-Bergen)
Sen. Michael Doherty (R-Hunterdon)
Sen. Kevin J. O’Toole (R-Essex)
Sen. Philip E. Haines (R-Burlington)
Sen. Christopher J. Connors (R-Ocean)
Sen. Anthony R. Bucco (R-Morris)
Sen. Steven V. Oroho (R-Sussex)
Sen. Sean T. Kean (R-Monmouth)

ABSTENTIONS (3)

Sen. Paul A. Sarlo (D-Bergen)
Sen. Stephen M. Sweeney (D-Gloucester)
Sen. James Beach (D-Camden)

DID NOT ATTEND SESSION (2)

Sen. Diane B. Allen (R-Burlington)
Sen. Andrew Ciesla (R-Ocean)

*Senate has 39 members following this week’s resignation of Dana Redd,
a Democrat, after she became mayor of Camden.

More:
http://www.nj.com/news/index.ssf/2010/01/nj_gay_marriage_how_lawmakers.html

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