Albany Project's Robert Harding notes the current incarnation of the biennial gay-bashing coming - cough ironically enough cough - from Dean Skelos' folks: robocalls purporting to originate with Gay City News, the LGBTQ publication based in New York City.

I just received word from someone canvassing for Joe Mesi that more than a few voters have received calls from someone claiming to be connected to the Gay City News saying that Mesi is endorsed by the publication and supports marriage equality. Of course, these calls aren't coming from the publication.

These calls are also being made in the 6th Senate District, where those calls have been informing voters that the Gay City News supports Kristen McElroy. According to my source, the same can be said of the Mesi calls.

The newspaper on its web site denies the story.

I'm not even going to go into the rather persistent rumors as to which members of the republican caucus are themselves gay. But it's worth pointing out that these phone calls say more about the republicans who pay for them than their Democratic targets.

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Joe Mesi for Senate
Kirsten McElroy for State Senate