Virginia Fields gets gays and then some
This is a really great profile about Virginia Fields, well worth the read.
[via A Long Road From Birmingham]:
Fields showed the most aggressiveness in discussing Bloomberg's veto of the Equal Benefits Law, a measure championed by lesbian City Councilwoman Christine Quinn that would have required contractors doing business with the city to offer their gay and lesbian employees domestic partner benefits on par with those given to spouses. Asked about the mayor's assertion that city procurement policies should not be used to advance social agendas, the borough president scoffed.
"The city is always doing social policy," she said without skipping a beat. "I mean we do so much policy on a whole host of issues. So I think that is a real phony argument when you look at a number of legislative initiatives and policy initiatives where we often tie in decisions that are clearly related to social policy."
Told that the mayor, responding to Gay City News' Andy Humm immediately prior to the LGBT Pride March in June, said he would have taken the same view back in the 1970s and 1980s when sanctions against businesses active in apartheid South Africa were adopted by the city, Fields seemed taken aback.
"To now know that the mayor has taken a position that he would have done differently is very disturbing and I can only say that I am so glad that he was not mayor at the time when that decision was being discussed," she said.
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I HEART NY | 2005 Elections | New York City | Democratic Party | Virginia Fields
