State Senator Joe Robach will try again this week to move a bill he sponsored to explicitly prohibit housing discrimination against domestic-violence victims, despite what he says are efforts by Democrats controlling the chamber’s majority to keep the bill off the floor.
“I think you have to ask them why they didn’t think this was necessary,” Robach told me. The implication is that it has something to do with the fact that Democratic Senator Hiram Monserrate is under indictment for allegedly assaulting a female companion.
Robach’s bill currently sits before the Finance Committee, having been referred from the Investigations Committee on April 21.
