Maud Maron, a former Authorized Support lawyer, is looking for the Republican Occasion nod subsequent yr to problem the re-election of controversial Democratic Manhattan District Legal professional Alvin Bragg.
Mauron, a 53-year-old mom of 4 public faculty youngsters, ran for Congress as a Democrat simply two years in the past.
However she left the Democratic Occasion, first altering her registration to unbiased after which re-enrolling as a Republican in October 2023.
A mother or father member of District 2’s Neighborhood Training Council, Maron turned a lightning rod after calling for the Division of Training to conduct a public assessment of its coverage permitting trans ladies to compete in opposition to organic females in sports activities.
The Soho resident stated her marketing campaign is about restoring justice and security within the metropolis for law-abiding residents.
“Just over the past few days, there were three stabbings across Manhattan. As a criminal defense lawyer I advocated for my clients and Manhattan needs an advocate now more than ever,” Maron instructed The Put up.
“Our communities need someone who will fight for everyone. From school children to seniors and underserved communities to small business owners, all of us deserve a safe and prosperous New York City. Most of us can remember living in a much safer city and we want that city back.”
Maron stated she would curb crime by prosecuting criminals no matter immigration standing and would repeal Bragg’s notorious “Day One memo” to assistant DAs which declared he wouldn’t prosecute resisting arrest and would deal with main felonies corresponding to theft as misdemeanors.
She additionally stated she would create a particular unit to help the NYPD with homeless points and take away violent emotionally disturbed individuals from the streets.
Elsewhere, Maron stated she would make the most of all accessible psychological well being assets, together with the regulation to detain, stabilize and supply psychological well being providers to mentally unstable people who’re a hazard to themselves and others.
As well as, she would arrange a particular DA’s unit for the New York Metropolis Housing Authority (NYCHA), “which remains underserved,” and rent extra rackets investigators and detectives, the previous lawyer stated.
Extra broadly, Maron would push for Albany to repeal or rework New York’s “disastrous” cashless bail reform, revoke the “raise the age” regulation that lets teenagers off the hook for sure crimes, and tighten parole coverage, she stated.
She additionally would urge lawmakers to undo the worst of the De Blasio-era insurance policies, notably the plan to shut Rikers Island and construct community-based jails, “which will make our neighborhoods even more dangerous,” the mother and training council board member stated.
Maron served as a public defender in Manhattan and the Bronx for over 20 years from 1998 to 2019. On the Authorized Support Society, she served as a trial Legal professional, working her method as much as senior trial lawyer and Director of Coaching.
She additionally labored as a regulation professor at Cardozo Regulation College’s Felony Protection Clinic.
Maron is an elected member, and previous president, of Neighborhood Training Council District 2.
She’s been a fierce advocate for rigorous requirements and merit-based insurance policies on the training district board.
Maron co-founded PLACE NYC, a parent-volunteer group that efficiently campaigned to protect New York Metropolis’s specialised highschool entrance exams to enroll at faculties like Stuyvesant, The Bronx HS of Science and Brooklyn Tech.
A lifelong Democrat, Maron stated she deserted the celebration due to considerations about censorship and a concentrate on “woke” insurance policies that she says hurt youngsters, corresponding to permitting organic males who establish as transgender ladies to compete in sports activities and organic ladies.
She was booted off the District 2 mother or father council for calling out anti-semitism in faculties, refused to apologize for doing the fitting factor, and was reinstated by a federal decide in a significant First Modification win.
Maron has a frightening activity in liberal Manhattan. Republican President-elect Donald Trump made spectacular beneficial properties in different boroughs, however solely carried one election district in all of New York County.
Nonetheless, Maron has assist.
“We need someone in the DA’s office that understands our communities, and knows that homeless, emotionally unstable people need to be off the streets,” stated Maria Danzilo, Higher West Facet neighborhood chief and founding father of One Metropolis Rising.
“Maud has the compassion of a public defender and the guts of a tough-on-crime prosecutor, and knows what it will take to serve all New Yorkers and clean up New York City.”
Bragg, 51, a former federal prosecutor, doesn’t face a Democratic major.
