Nassau County
executive urges revote on DP bill

The chief executive of suburban Nassau County, N.Y., where a domestic-partnership registry was narrowly voted down last week, is pushing for a revote on the bill. Until now, Democrat Thomas Suozzi hasn't publicly supported the measure, but he says that's because he thought it was going to be approved, Newsday reports. "No I didn't lobby for it," Suozzi said on a local New York television show over the weekend, according to Newsday. "I thought it was going to pass." "He always was in favor of the registry," his spokesman, Bruce Nyman, told the paper. "The only reason he didn't intervene was that he had assurances from the Democratic leadership that the bill was going to pass." Suozzi, who's campaigning for a Democratic gubernatorial nomination against New York attorney general Eliot Spitzer, a strong LGBT ally, also sent a letter to Newsday on Friday urging the county legislature to reconsider the domestic-partnership registry. The bill was defeated 9-8. (The Advocate)