In a different light, she is acting like the "typical politician".
Gale's personal life is irrelevant; I'm not going to be talking about that. What is relevant is that she's the Manhattan Borough President, and her policies speak.
She's for preservation, but she's essentially against luxury housing; for one, that's ironic, but more importantly, her policy is a passive one, and her passive policy turns very misguided/ becomes knee-jerking when she, almost every time, sides with local NIMBYs, whom are typically always paranoid of any and all change. Yet, Gale claims she is supportive of more affordable housing; in order to satisfy the demands of the market, development on all levels is required. She's supportive of isolating affordable units within developments, as de Blasio's administration has been focusing on, but she is fearful of gated communities. Building more will only satisfy the demand. She is perpetuating the unaffordability of Manhattan, but claims to be solving the problem of Manhattan's unaffordability.
Personal attacks are always uncalled for, but constructive criticism of a politician's policy is always healthy. Take a look at her recent decisions:
http://manhattanbp.nyc.gov/html/home/home.shtml