After being endorsed by a group of LGBT officials which included Assembly Member Danny O’Donnell on Friday and bringing her “Senate at your Supermarket” to Fairway with Council Member Gale Brewer and Assembly Member Linda Rosenthal on Saturday, Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand will continue her near-sweep of officials from the vote-rich Upper West Side by receiving the endorsement of Assembly Member Dick Gottfried on Monday.

And the endorsement will come with Gottfried’s eager re-stamping of the senator with the word “progressive.”

“She is a smart, hardworking progressive public leader who could do a lot of other things in life and make a lot more money and spend a lot more time with her family, but has chosen to fight for a progressive agenda in public service,” Gottfried said.

Gottfried said he had first decided that Gillibrand fit the bill as a progressive from hearing her speak about the importance of government support at a food program for the poor shortly after her appointment last year.

Gottfried chalked up initial suspicion of Gillibrand to geographic snobbery.

“I think people from Manhattan sometimes assume that if you’re in elected office from north of Westchester you somehow can’t share our values,” he said, while adding he was glad to see Gillibrand’s modulation on several key issues over the course of the last year.

But there was no geographic snobbery of his own at play in deciding whom he wants in the Senate seat once held by Bobby Kennedy and Hillary Clinton, neither of them New York residents before they were Senate candidates. A strong supporter of Clinton who cites Kennedy as one of his original inspirations for getting into politics, Gottfried that his decision had nothing to do with Harold Ford’s recent move from Tennessee.

That, however, did not stop Gottfried from firing hard at the prospective candidate.

“The issue is not so much that he spent most of his life somewhere else. To me the issue is what he does and what he stands for, and that when he came to New York he did not come here and get involved in our problems and issues—he got involved in his own economic welfare,” Gottfried said. “There’s nothing wrong with that, but it shouldn’t be the basis for running for high office.”

Asked whether he was surprised to see a Democratic primary race in New York with two candidates both seen as having once had center-right positions, Gottfried shrugged, and used the chance to pivot into another hit on Ford.

“New York has always had a strong conservative streak in its politics, but I don’t think there’s much of a constituency among New York Democrats for standing up for the downtrodden Wall Street bankers,” he said. “I think Harold Ford will discover that it’s one thing to raise a lot of money on Wall Street, and it’s another thing to run in a Democratic primary.”

As to whether he believed that an anti-incumbent spirit might motivate voters at the polls, Gottfried—who was first elected to the Assembly the year Ford was born—said he believes this will rate second to assessments of candidates’ views.

“All over the state, I expect that there will be candidates who think that this is their moment to take advantage of a lot of voter anger,” he said. “We’ll see how that pans out. I believe New York State and particularly the Democratic primary vote is still well rooted in progressive values.

But despite Gillibrand’s show of support among LGBT, West Side and progressive officials, however, one politician who fits into all three categories remains uncommitted: State Sen. Tom Duane.

Duane was unavailable for comment.

Also missing from the list of LGBT elected officials behind Gillibrand was Rosie Mendez, the only LGBT member of the City Council absent from the Friday afternoon endorsement press conference on the steps of City Hall.

Mendez was unavailable for comment and out of the country, according to her chief of staff, Lisa Kaplan.

As for whether Mendez supported Gillibrand or had a preference in the Senate race at all, Kaplan said she could not say.

“She’s been out of the country for most of the last week, and I don’t know,” Kaplan said.