State Assembly candidate details wild antics in 2003 online journal


She’s running for the New York State Ass-embly.

A progressive candidate for Brooklyn’s 50th District boasted about her immature antics — including mooning a couple she spied having sex, not to mention throwing a “homeless party” — in an online journal that recently came to light.

Emily Gallagher, who is taking on longtime Democratic incumbent Joe Lentol in next week’s primary for the Williamsburg-Greenpoint seat, was a student at Ithaca College in 2003 when she made the sophomoric posts on Livejournal.

She bragged about having “guts of steel” that September after catching a couple mid-coitus during a trip to Syracuse to visit friends.

“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!”

In another post two months later, the 36-year-old Greenpoint resident wrote about hosting a “homeless party” with pals.

“This consisted of me in a hat and scarf, steve in a fur coat, meaghan wrapped in a blanket and chelle in a garbage bag, passing around a cheap jug of sangria in a paper bag,” she wrote.

“This was very fun but I had no idea how hard the cheapo crap was hitting me. Before I knew it I was dancing with chelle to no music, and reinacting selected scenes from Fiddler on the Roof.”

Gallagher is taking on Lentol — who has served in the state Legislature since 1973 and has faced just one primary challenger since.

The area has been hotly contested in past primaries. In 2018, progressive Julia Salazar unseated eight-term state Sen. Martin Dilan in the 18th Senate District, which covers parts of Williamsburg and Greenpoint.

Gallagher, a community activist who grew up just outside Rochester, has been endorsed by progressive groups including the New Kings Democrats and former gubernatorial candidate and “Sex and the City” star Cynthia Nixon.

On her website, Gallagher describes herself as “a renter, a roommate, a cyclist, a commuter. I’ve been unemployed, underemployed, and have known too many months where I scrambled to make rent.”

After news of her past blog posts went viral, Gallagher reiterated that she was running a serious campaign.

“Here’s what I’m going to talk about in the last week of this campaign: advocating for renters, workers and small business owners, dismantling our racist criminal justice system, fighting for a just recovery,” she tweeted. “Here’s what I’m not going to talk about: my teenage livejournal.”

Gallagher’s campaign manager Andrew Epstein accused Lentol’s camp of releasing the Livejournal posts, noting the 77-year-old pol has two social media consultants on his payroll, which The Post confirmed.

“Emily has been running a campaign addressing the real issue facing New Yorkers,” Epstein told The Post. “All this distraction about a teenage girl’s diary smacks of desperation.”

“Joe Lentol’s campaign pays social media consultants to create sock puppet accounts,” he added.

Lentol’s campaign didn’t comment on the allegations.

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