{"id":20691,"date":"2019-12-04T14:12:17","date_gmt":"2019-12-04T19:12:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gunpoliticsny.com\/?p=20691"},"modified":"2019-12-04T14:12:17","modified_gmt":"2019-12-04T19:12:17","slug":"mom-mimi-running-for-westchester-d-a","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.gunpoliticsny.com\/?p=20691","title":{"rendered":"Mom Mimi running for Westchester D.A."},"content":{"rendered":"

The Journal News reports<\/a>:<\/p>\n

“MSNBC<\/a> legal analyst Mimi Rocah<\/a> will announce she\u2019s running for Westchester County district attorney<\/a> today, looking to unseat incumbent Anthony Scarpino<\/a> in a 2020 Democratic Party<\/a> primary. Rocah, a 49-year-old Scarsdale resident, said she decided to get involved because of the \u201chateful policies\u201d and \u201cattacks on the rule of law\u201d by President Donald Trump<\/a> and U.S. Attorney General William Barr<\/a> … Rocah is also a Distinguished Criminal Justice Fellow at Pace Law School<\/a> and volunteers with the gun-control activist group Moms Demand Action<\/a> and My Sister\u2019s Place<\/a>, which assists victims of domestic violence and human trafficking …”<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

She gave a talk at Pace back in 2017 on gun control, “Gun Regulation in an Era of Mass Shootings<\/a>” with a follow-up, “Let\u2019s Keep the Conversation About Gun Control Going<\/a>.”<\/p>\n

Her Twitter feed<\/a> features a picture of her in a Moms t-shirt and she is not shy about expressing her opinions on the issue:<\/p>\n

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Every elected official who does nothing to advance common sense gun laws should have to watch this over and over again. https:\/\/t.co\/Ap0Dp0E44v<\/a><\/p>\n

— Mimi Rocah (@Mimirocah1) November 9, 2018<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n