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Sarah Unsicker
American politician From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Sarah Unsicker is an American politician who served in the Missouri House of Representatives from the 83rd and 91st districts from 2017 to 2025. She was a member of the Democratic caucus until her expulsion for anti-Semitism in 2023.
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Early life and education
She graduated from Washington University School of Law with a Juris Doctor in 2005.[1][2]
Career
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Jeanne Kirkton, a member of the Missouri House of Representatives from the 91st district, declined to run for reelection in 2016.[3] Unsicker won the Democratic nomination without opposition and defeated Republican nominee Greg Mueller. [4][5] She was reelected in 2018,[6] and reelected from the 91st district in 2020[7] and 2022.[8] Representatives being limited to four terms prevented Unsicker from running for reelection after 2022.[9]
On March 8, 2023, Unsicker announced that she would seek the Democratic nomination for Missouri Attorney General in the 2024 election.[10] Unsicker was removed from her position on four committees on December 7, 2023, after she repeatedly posted a photo on social media of herself with far-right activist and Holocaust denier Charles C. Johnson.[11] She withdrew from the attorney general race on December 14, but made anti-Semitic remarks against her opponent Elad Gross in the post announcing her withdrawal.[12]
The Democratic caucus voted to expel her on December 21, 2023.[13] Speaker Dean Plocher appointed Unsicker to the Special Committee on Government Accountability in 2024, and declined to answer why he chose to do so.[14] On January 8, 2024, Unsicker announced at the United States Capitol that she would run for governor and Eric Garland, a conspiracy theorist, was her campaign manager.[15] Her filing fee was rejected by the Democrats on February 27, which prevented her from running in the Democratic gubernatorial primary.[16]
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Political positions
Unsicker opposed the expansion of charter schools in 2017.[17] She proposed the creation of a committee to study Missouri's maternal mortality rate in 2018, but the house voted 78 to 49 against it.[18] She opposed an eight-week abortion ban passed in 2019, stating that "We will be killing women with this bill".[19] She was critical of legislation by Mary Elizabeth Coleman that would allow private lawsuits against people who aid in the facilitation of an abortion.[20] She proposed legislation to end the usage of capital punishment in 2023.[21]
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