New York State Senator Ruben Diaz is
dialing against Assemblyman David Weprin for his support of gay
marriage.
Diaz, the Senate's only Democrat who
voted against a bill in June that made New York the sixth state to
legalize gay marriage, is robo-calling Latino voters in the state's
9th congressional district and urging them to vote for
Republican Bob Turner in Tuesday's special election to replace former
New York Rep. Anthony D. Weiner, who resigned in June as a result of
a sexting scandal.
“David Weprin betrayed New York
families when he voted to impose same sex marriage,” Diaz says in
Spanish in the recording, the Weekly
Standard reported. “Weprin voted to impose gay marriage
against the wishes of our community. Worse, he refused to allow the
people of New York to decide this issue by allowing us to vote on
marriage, as voters in 31 other states have been able to do. Our
families face terrible consequences because of David Weprin. Join
me, Democratic State Senator Ruben Diaz, in supporting Bob Turner for
Congress on September 13.”
The National Organization for Marriage
(NOM), the nation's most vociferous opponent of gay marriage, is
sponsoring the calls. The group is spending $75,000 against Weprin's
campaign.
In an attack ad geared toward Jewish
voters, the
group claims Weprin's gay marriage vote mocks the Torah.
A Public Policy Polling survey released
on Sunday shows Turner up by six percentage points.