At a press conference at the Governor's Manhattan office last week to announce the introduction of the marriage equality bill, Mayor Bloomberg blew up at wheelchair-bound Examiner reporter Michael Harris, who was trying to pick up a tape recorder he had dropped.
If marriage equality is important enough to Mike Bloomberg for him to publicly humiliate a wheelchair-bound journalist for no particular reason, then is it not important enough for him to use whatever popularity he has left to pressure Senators like Pedro Espada and Frank Padavan to vote yes? Bloomberg picked the winner in the Squadron-Connor primary last year, and it's hard to imagine a scenario where Espada avoids a serious primary challenge in 2010. Padavan squeaked by in his last contest and could struggle against a Bloomberg-endorsed Democrat next year.
