Fifty state legislators, including local progressives
co-sponsor marriage equality bills
Reps Donna Walsh and Larry Valencia have both signed on as marriage equality co-sponsors |
According to RI
Future, more than fifty legislators signed on as co-sponsors to the House
and Senate versions of marriage equality bills that were introduced on Day #3
of the new General Assembly session.
- Rep. Donna Walsh
- Rep. Larry Valencia
- Rep. Teresa Tanzi
- Rep. Donald Lally
- Rep. Bob Craven (one of Charlestown’s solicitors, newly elected to represent North Kingstown)
- Sen. Sue Sosnowski
- Sen. Cathie Cool Rumsey (newly elected).
Rep. Spencer Dickinson did not |
Newly elected Senator Christopher Ottiano (Portsmouth,
Bristol) is the lone Republican among the 53 co-sponsors. I wonder what that
will cost him.
House Speaker Gordon Fox and Senate President Theresa Paiva
Weed have both given their assurances that marriage equality will be voted on
this year by the full membership of both bodies, although Paiva-Weed, a
long-time marriage equality opponent, said she could not predict the outcome.