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The Green Party blasted Democrats in the state legislature for deliberately stalling three gay rights bills in the recent legislative session that ended earlier this week.
“The Democratic Party has been a big disappointment on gay rights,” said Steve Alesch, candidate for Congress in 2008. “Democrats control the White House, the U.S. Senate, the U.S. House. Democrats have held the Illinois governor’s office and have controlled both chambers of the state legislature since 2003. Yet, still no civil unions, no equal marriage. Nothing but stalling, year after year after year.” Read more »
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Carole graduated from Hunter College of the City of NY in 1953, and later studied and worked as a social worker. She founded CJ Enterprises; sold advertising for the Babylon Beacon newspaper; and from 1988-1992 was Executive Assistant to the Commissioner of Environmental Control for the Town of Babylon. Carole was a founder of the Babylon Youth Board and President of the Copiague Youth Council. Over the course of her life, Carole was a community leader with the Lindenhurst Hebrew Congregation and its Sisterhood; Congregation Beth-El in Massapequa; the Tri-State League of Women Voters; The Town of Babylon Environmental Commission; The NY State Association of Conservation Commissions; the Copiague PTA; and Deauville Garden Elementary School PTA Board. 
We may be certain that due to their rich experience of privilege and denial, white male pundits, be they of liberal or conservative persuasion, will never regret or even acknowledge their own racist “choice of words” when commenting on Supreme Court nominee Sotomayor’s 2001 speech.