A whole lot of elected officials showed up at Adrienne Adams' campaign launch
Just a few days into her mayoral campaign, New York City Council Speaker Adrienne Adams pulled together a strong showing of early institutional support that could help her down-to-the-wire candidacy catch on mere months away from the Democratic primary.
Elected officials who showed up at her first campaign event Saturday and endorsed her included state Sen. James Sanders and Assembly Member Andrew Hevesi of Queens, former Queens Council Member I. Daneek Miller, former Manhattan Borough President C. Virginia Fields, and fellow City Council Members Yusef Salaam, Kevin Riley, Althea Stevens, Chris Banks, Deputy Speaker Diana Ayala and Majority Leader Amanda Farías. City Council Member Sandy Nurse also endorsed her, but was unable to attend the Saturday rally at Rochdale Village Shopping Center.
“It was a strong showing – both from an institutional perspective as well as a community perspective. You had all different kinds of folks come out,” said Yvette Buckner, Democratic strategist and co-chair of the New Majority NYC, which organized around achieving the first majority woman City Council. “I thought it was a real home run for her first coming out.”
The City Council speaker held her campaign launch event a week after former Gov. Andrew Cuomo held his. Her campaign launch was rapidly assembled. His was months in the making. Hers took place in a shopping center in Southeast Queens, his took place in a Manhattan union hall. Many of his supporters were reportedly bussed in, while hers by and large showed up organically. Attendees – seniors and youth, southeast Queens locals and other borough residents alike – spilled out beyond the rows of chairs. “Divine Nine” member organization Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority – of which the speaker is an active member – showed up in force.
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