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#Insurgent Emily Gallagher upsets 46-year State Assembly vet Joe Lentol

#Insurgent Emily Gallagher upsets 46-year State Assembly vet Joe Lentol

This insurgent candidate’s moon shot is shining over Brooklyn.

In a stunning development, community activist Emily Gallagher has apparently pulled off an upset of 46-year-incumbent Assemblyman Joe Lentol as the final absentees were counted for the Democratic primary in the gentrifying 50th district that takes in Greenpoint and Williamsburg.

Gallagher, 36, was left red-faced with some unflattering campaign coverage when her immature posts from an online journal she kept at Ithaca College in 2003 surfaced. She had boasted of mooning a couple she spied having sex and throwing a “homeless party.”

“Not only did I stare at people who were having sex in front of a window, but I remained even after they noticed me,” the then-19-year-old wrote. “I waved, smiled, and when the girl flipped out I mooned her.”

She added, “You’d think i was on drugs… but no!”

But Gallagher, founder of the Greenpoint Sexual Assault Task Force, has matured and had the last laugh on Tuesday.

“Fresh numbers from the scanners, with all the usual caveats. With the in-person vote included, we’re now ahead by 265. And our lead is growing,” Gallagher said on Twitter.

Board of Elections insiders confirmed Tuesday night that Gallagher’s claim of pulling away from Lentol were accurate.

Assemblyman Joe Lentol
Assemblyman Joe LentolWilliam Miller

Lentol led Gallagher by 1,763 votes following the in-person machine count on June 23, thanks largely to strong backing he received by orthodox Jewish voters in southern Williamsburg, sources said.

But Gallagher posted an informal count Tuesday showing she garnered 2,020 more votes from mail-in ballots than Lentol. Many younger, progressive voters decided to file an absentee ballot during the coronavirus pandemic instead of voting in person.

The pro-Lentol Williamsburg News outlet said Gallagher had defeated Lentol on its Twitter site Tuesday night.

“Emily Gallagher is now ahead over our dear Assemblyman Joe Lentol by estimated 400-600 votes,” the site said.

“The community and the district will still benefit of Assemblyman Lentol’s @assemblymanjoe service till January and will always remain indebted to his 48 years of service,” the outlet said.

A Brooklyn Democratic insider confirmed that Gallagher had defeated Lentol, 77, a legislative institution first elected in 1972 who chaired the Assembly Codes Committee that crafted criminal justice legislation. He faced only one other Democratic primary during his five-decade career.

Gallagher had been endorsed by progressive groups that included the New Kings Democrats, former gubernatorial candidate and “Sex and the City” actress Cynthia Nixon as well as Citizens Union. But Lentol had the backing of the left-leaning Working Families Party.

Lentol and his campaign declined requests for comment.

Two years ago, Brooklyn state Sen. Julia Salazar defeated predecessor Martin Dilan in the 18th district that includes the same neighborhoods of Greenpoint and Williamsburg as well as Bushwick.

And Lentol’s downfall is not the only potential upset.

A Democratic source said that it appeared insurgent Phara Souffrant Forrest – a nurse and tenant activist who was endorsed by lefty superstar Rep. Alexandria Ocasio Cortez – had pulled ahead of incumbent Assemblyman Walter Mosley in the 57th AD that encompasses Fort Greene, Clinton Hill, Prospect Heights and parts of Crown Heights and Bedford Stuyvesant.

Mosley led by 588 votes in the machine count primary night but was overtaken by Souffrant Forres when mail-in ballots were tallied, a Board of Elections source said.

“It’s a bloodbath for the incumbents,” a Brooklyn Democratic insider said.

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