New York GOP State Senate Candidate Attacks Primary Opponent For Being Friendly With Gays

Hours before today’s primary elections, Republican state senate candidate Juan Reyes attacked his opponent New York City Councilman Eric Ulrich for being too friendly with the LGBT community.

“Ulrich and his wife became known as frequent dinner companions of an openly gay Democrat Councilman and his husband. No one cared about that,” the mailer stated (emphasis in the original). The pamphlet goes on to accuse Ulrich of such “liberal” misdeeds as hiring openly gay staff members and voting in favor of same-sex marriage while on the city council.

So virulently anti-gay was Reyes’ mailer that his own former boss, longtime ally to the LGBT community and former Republican Mayor Rudy Giuliani, nixed his plans to remain neutral during the primaries and instead rushed to defend Ulrich in the Wall Street Journal:

GIULIANI: After seeing what his campaign has done, which is disgusting, Juan doesn’t belong in politics. I don’t know where he belongs, but he belongs someplace else… I find these attacks, the gay-bashing attacks, childish, silly, and a real indication you don’t belong in public service.