Sullivan drops Bay Ridge council seat bid for Coney Island race
He’s dropping out and dropping in at the same time, though in a much less controversial manner than Vito Lopez.
Andy Sullivan, the Tea Party candidate hoping to run against incumbent City Council member Vincent Gentile (D-Bay Ridge-Dyker Heights-Bensonhurst) in November, has quit the race and is setting his sights on another council seat in a neighboring district.
Sullivan confirmed that he has decided to run for the council seat in the 47th District in Coney Island, currently represented by term-limited Domenic Recchia Jr.
“It’s an open seat,” Sullivan, a construction worker who shot to fame with his opposition to the Ground Zero mosque, told the Brooklyn Daily Eagle. “No incumbent means that I’ll have a clearer shot,” he said.