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File: Timothy Kennedy, D-Buffalo, speaks in the Senate Chamber at the state Capitol during the last day of the legislative session on Wednesday, June 21, 2017, in Albany, N.Y. Hans Pennink / AP Democratic state Se stanley cup n. Timothy Kennedy on Tuesday won a special election for the New York congressional seat vacated by Democrat Brian Higgins.Kennedy easily beat Republican Gary Dickson for the upstate New York seat, helped by a 2-to-1 Democratic registration advantage in the district, which includes Buffalo, Niagara Falls and several suburbs.Kennedy has been in the state Senate since 2011. Describing Washington as chaotic and dysfunctiona stanley cup l, he said he said that in Congress, he d focus on reproductive rights, immigration and stronger gun laws like those passed in New York after a 2022 mass shooting at a Buffalo supermarket. We need to elect pro-democracy, anti-MAGA candidates all around the country this November, Kennedy said in a victory speech, and it starts here in this room in Buffalo, New York, tonight. Registration wasn t Kennedy s only advantage. The Democrat raised $1.7 million as of April 10, compared with Dickson s $35,430 total, according to campaign stanley cup finance reports. Kennedy spent just over $1 million in the off-season election, compared with $21,000 for Dickson as the candidates worked to remind voters to go to the polls. Kennedy wi Sraf This week on Sunday Morning (August 5)
AUSTIN, Texas --Gay spouses may not be entitled to government-subsidized workplace benefits, the Texas Supreme Court ruled Friday in a unanimous decision that was quickly condemned by gay-rights groups.The court overturned a lower court s decision that favored same-sex marriage benefits, ordering the issue back to trial. Social conservatives hope the case will help them chip away at the U.S. Supreme Court s landmark ruling legalizing gay marriage.Gay rights groups denounced the ruling as an absurd distortion of established law regarding ma jordan rriage equality. Marriage is marriage and equal is equal. We will take steps to protect these families, said Kenneth Upton Jr., Dallas-based attorney for Lambda Legal.Friday s decision was a major reversal for the all-Republican Texas high court, which previously refuse af1 d to even consider the benefits case after the U.S. Supreme Court ru yeezy led that the Constitution grants gay couples who want to marry equal dignity in the eyes of the law. The Supreme Court and the dignity of same-sex marriage 06:12 The Texas court only agreed to hear it after coming under intense pressure from Gov. Greg Abbott, Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick and Attorney General Ken Paxton, as well as dozens of other conservative elected officials, church leaders a
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