Councilmember Vincent Gentile joins race for Brooklyn DA
‘As an Outsider, Only I Can Carry on Thompson’s Legacy’
After mulling it over for the past few months, city Councilmember Vincent Gentile finally declared on Wednesday that he will run for district attorney in Kings County in the upcoming election next fall.
“I’m pleased and thrilled to announce that I am going to enter the race to be Brooklyn’s next district attorney,” Gentile said on NY1’s Inside City Hall with Errol Louis Wednesday night.
Gentile, who will be term-limited out of office at the end of the year, painted himself as an outsider despite 14 years in the City Council and six more years as a New York state senator, because unlike many of the other people expected to run, he has no ties to the Brooklyn DA’s Office.