{"id":4363,"date":"2011-06-15T13:49:35","date_gmt":"2011-06-15T17:49:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/?p=4363"},"modified":"2011-06-17T10:05:14","modified_gmt":"2011-06-17T14:05:14","slug":"north-country-sen-betty-little-a-no-vote-on-gay-marriage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/2011\/06\/15\/north-country-sen-betty-little-a-no-vote-on-gay-marriage\/","title":{"rendered":"North Country Sen. Betty Little &#8220;a No vote&#8221; on gay marriage"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I spoke a few minutes ago with Dan Macentee, spokesman for state Sen. Betty Little.\u00a0 He described an unprecedented barrage of emails and phone calls on the issue of same-sex marriage.<\/p>\n<p>The issue has been moving rapidly, with Sen. Little&#8217;s fellow Republican Senator Roy McDonald &#8212; whose district snakes up into the Queensbury area &#8212; announcing that he will change his vote to a Yes.<\/p>\n<p>In the past, Sen. Little has described this as &#8220;a difficult issue.&#8221;\u00a0 Two Republican assemblywomen from her district &#8212; Janet Duprey and Teresa Sayward &#8212; have been strong supporters of same-sex marriage, describing it as &#8220;a civil right.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>According to Macentee, however, Sen. Little &#8220;is a No vote&#8221; on the issue.<\/p>\n<p>Sen. Little has been described at times as a possible swing vote on gay marriage, but her voting record is pretty consistent at this point and appears to be heartfelt rather than political.<\/p>\n<p>The Senate&#8217;s Republican leaders have made it clear that lawmakers should vote their consciences on this issue.<\/p>\n<p>And while a Yes vote might trigger a primary challenge for Sen. Little, Assemblywoman Duprey survived a conservative challenge last year handily.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I spoke a few minutes ago with Dan Macentee, spokesman for state Sen. Betty Little.\u00a0 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[4861],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4363"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4363"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4363\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4363"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4363"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4363"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}