Alec Brook-Krasny

Here are the highlights from yesterday’s press conference where a number of gay activists from Brooklyn criticized Republican State Senator Marty Golden for joining a lawsuit to block state agencies from recognizing same-sex marriages performed outside New York.

At the event, activist held signs calling Golden a “bigot,” and accused him of “homophobia,” primarily for signing onto this lawsuit.

They also announced a plan to put pressure on six legislators from Brooklyn -- Dov Hikind, Nick Perry, Steve Cymbrowitz, William Colton, Peter Abbate, and Annette Robinson -- who voted against same-sex marriage last year. (Two legislators, Alec Brook-Kransy and Carim Camara, abstained.)

As the clip above seems to show, those six legislators won’t get hit with the kind of rhetoric that Golden got hit with (although activist Allen Roskoff tries.)

Meet the new director of the Kings County Democratic Organization, Jon Yedin, who is moving on from his post as chief of staff to freshman Assemblyman Alex Brook-Krasny.

Here's the email Yedi sent out to some "Ladies and Gentlemen " (he's so polite):  read more »

For those of you still craving primary election drama, there are still a handful of elections that are at least technically undecided, where the margins of victory are smaller than the number of paper ballots still to be counted.

Party favorite Alec Brook-Krasny beat Ari Kagan in Brooklyn's 64th Assembly District by 94 votes. I'm told there are about 600 paper ballots which are being opened sometime today.

Party albatross Ada Smith lost to challenger Shirley Huntley by 197 votes in Queens 10th senate district in which, I've heard, there are still 209 paper ballots to open.

Party favorite John Sabini held off a challenge from City Councilman Hiram Monserrate in Queens 13th senate district by 208 votes. Monserrate refused to concede and they're going through a recount.

Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver's candidate, David Cohen, lost to Margaret Chan in Manhattan Civil Court District 2 by 49 votes. As someone in the comments section said, that race, too, looks like it will be "going to paper."

-- Azi Paybarah