This short piece is from Air America, as seen on gayagenda.com
A state senator was sentenced Friday to probation and domestic abuse counseling, the resolution of a yearlong legal drama that began when he took his girlfriend to a hospital with a gaping, bleeding wound under her eye and ended with her begging a judge to let them be together.
State Sen. Hiram Monserrate (photo), a freshman Democrat, could have been sent to jail for up to a year on the misdemeanor assault conviction for unintentionally injuring girlfriend Karla Giraldo by dragging her through his apartment lobby.
But his troubles are not over: A Senate committee is looking into whether he is fit to remain in the Legislature.
Monserrate, in a tearful statement to Justice William Erlbaum, said he took full responsibility for his actions and looked forward to resuming his life with Giraldo.
The footnote: this Democratic senator from New York voted against same-sex marriage on Wednesday. Equal marriage supporters were led to believe they had his vote. Instead, he voted
yes. One does have to wonder if he needed a little "family values" protection given his the public nature of the violence in his own family life.
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