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Anti-Gay Ruben Diaz Wants Pro-Gay Mark Grisanti Investigated

New York State Senator Ruben Diaz showed today that he is also anti-woman and pro-domestic violence. You see, Diaz wants a Senate Committee formed to investigate an incident in which New York State Senator Mark Grisanti and his wife were attacked in the Seneca Niagra Casino. His wife was injured. What Diaz sounds like is he wants to defend his crony while going after one of the men who helped get same-sex marriage through the New York Senate.

Skelos has stated that “I believed Mark Grisanti when he said he was attacked. His wife was attacked. She was knocked down on the floor. They beat her head against the floor. She has a concussion. She has bruises, and I think that was an indication that she was attacked.” Of course, Diaz is saying that he believes the story that is “floating around where many people are claiming that Senator Grisanti threw the first punch and that he hit a woman.”

The police are still investigating, but it appears that Grisanti was attacked because he is a state senator and the Seneca businessman had a grudge against how the tribe has been treated by the political process. There is some question as to whether or not Grisanti was first hit in the ribs or the head. Right now, this is a matter of eyewitnesses, and as the old Russian proverb goes “No one lies like an eyewitness.”

Of course, Diaz went on to say that “I wish that Senator Skelos and the members of the Senate would have taken Hiram Monserrate and his girl friend Carla at their word and believed them, the same way they are believing Mark Grisanti.”

He also said “You should know that during the Hiram Monserrate incident there were no witnesses present except Monserrate and his girlfriend Carla. Both of them testified under oath that it was an accident, but Senator Skelos and the members of the Senate did not believe them. They formed their own opinion and decided that they knew better and expelled Senator Monserrate from the Senate.”

And yet, Monserrate was charged with assault on Karla Giraldo, and convicted. In fact, Monserrate was convicted of third degree assault on Giraldo and sentenced to three years probation in October 2009. He was expelled from the Senate in February 2010. Diaz seems to ignore this time line entirely in order to call for an investigation into Grisanti.

Diaz continued on saying:

Today, my dear reader, you should also know that contrary to Monserrate’s case, in Grisanti’s situation there are many other witnesses that testified against Grisanti’s version. Yet Senator Skelos does not believe those witnesses who were not only present, but saw and heard every detail of the incident. Senator Skelos already has decided to believe Senator Grisanti’s account.

You should know, and I want to make it very clear, that I am not saying that Senator Grisanti is wrong or that he is right. I was not there. I am merely stating that justice has to be equal. If the Senate created a special committee to investigate Senator Hiram Monserrate, even when the only two witnesses said that it was an accident, why not create a committee to investigate Senator Mark Grisanti, when there are many witnesses and many different stories?

Justice is supposed to be blind, colorless, racially-less, culturally-less, and conveniently-less.

You should also know that it was the Democratic controlled Senate that created a commission to investigate one of their own (Senator Monserrate), regardless of the consequences to their own majority and party affiliations.

Reverend Diaz should be ashamed of himself. Not only is he defending a man convicted of assaulting his girlfriend, but he is blatantly showing that he has a political axe to grind when it comes to Grisanti. Diaz has shown a willingness to bend or even break the rules for his girlfriend-beating buddies and for his own political career. Perhaps he should be investigated.

He won’t be, of course.

AS for Grisanti, an investigation should only be launched if- and only if- he is convicted of anything. Just like Monserrate was treated.