At Gay-Rights Protest of Golden, Some Democrats Are Warned Too

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 Read More

Virginia’s Chinese Wall

The bright line between political campaigns and public offices is one of the sacred fictions of American politics, and so Fields‘ communications director, Kirsten Powers, probably didn’t mean for this email — apparently directed to Borough President’s office aide Dan Willson — to wind up in reporters’ inboxes:

this is how i would do Read More

Community Boards

C. Virginia Fields Modifies Stance On

St. John the Divine Landmarking

While Morningside Heights preservationists and Community Board 9 continue to lobby against Columbia University’s proposed development on the property of St. John the Divine, activists and board members have their immediate sights trained on an unlikely target: Manhattan Borough President C. Virginia Fields. Read More