With parting shots at Nadler, impeachment candidate ends run

[Freddie Stubbs]

Source: Downtown Express

By Gabriel Zucker

Adam Sullivan, the political novice who planned to challenge incumbent Congressmember Jerrold Nadler in the Eighth District Democratic primary, said on Tuesday that he would abort his campaign. His announcement came a week after Downtown Express and The Villager reported that Sullivan had registered as a Democrat too late to be enrolled in the party before the primary.

“Having grown up in a Democratic household and having consistently voted Democratic, I always associated myself with the Democratic Party,” Sullivan explained in a news conference outside the Farley General Post Office building at 32nd St. and Eighth Ave. “The fact was, though, that after moving to New York City in 1997, I had registered as unaffiliated, largely because I felt the party no longer sufficiently represented the progressive values that I cherished.”

Sullivan, a theater artist who has worked as a producer, director and teacher, registered as a Democrat in June, but, according to him, in his “haste, did not mention doing so to the campaign.”

“I assumed that my new enrollment would be current at the time of petition filing, which I now know not to be the case,” he said. “Members of my campaign assumed that I was a properly enrolled Democrat. The fault in this is entirely mine.”

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