| "Violence against women will not be tolerated in the New York State Senate..." said Senator John Sampson in his presser this afternoon announcing the formation of a committee to look into the "Monserrate Matter."
Eric Schneiderman will chair and, in a nod as to where this may be going, the other four Democratic members of the committee will be women; Sens. Ruth Hassell-Thompson, Diane Savino, Toby Stavisky and Andrea Stewart-Cousins.
Interesting choice here in that two of those four are women of color which would also blunt earlier charges of racism leveled by Senator Diaz in his statement of support of Monserrate.
We await the Republican's appointments to the committee. It will be interesting to see if women are represented there as well.
More later, but we need to continue to push the Senate so that they do the right thing and remove Monserrate from office.
The committee needs to move quickly and not let the old way of doing business in Albany stretch this out until the matter is buried.
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