NJ: Grandmother Pushes for Gay Marriage Vote

Loretta Weinberg, the Democratic senator from Teaneck, has less than a month to get a same-sex marriage bill on the governor's desk. And if she fails? She'll wait. Try again. For Weinberg, it tends to work. Her needle-exchange legislation, drafted to prevent the spread of disease among intravenous drug users, took 15 years to become law. A ban on indoor smoking, 10 years. A reduced blood-alcohol limit to define drunken driving, 10 years. "I'm an eternal optimist," she says. "If I weren't, I wouldn't be in this business." The sunlight in her Teaneck office is strong, nearly blinding, and Weinberg shifts behind her desk, nods toward a darkened conference room. She recalls the moment she became a grandmother, six years ago, when her son-in-law phoned from the delivery room and broadcast the infant's cries. Weinberg herself began to weep, right in front of her guests, a group that was supporting her domestic-partnership bill. Full Story from NorthJersey.com: http://www.northjersey.com/news/80125387.html

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