Paul Zukerberg is an American activist, lawyer and politician. Through a series of lawsuits and appeals, Zukerberg succeeded in ensuring the direct election of the District Attorney General of Columbia in 2014 after the District District Council of Columbia and incumbent Irv Nathan sought to postpone the vote.
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Careers
Zukerberg is the son of a self-taught musician who plays bar mitzvah and weddings from Paterson, New Jersey. He graduated from Hamilton College, moved to Washington, DC to attend law school at American University, and received JD in 1985. He became a criminal lawyer because he liked to go to court and he "could not stand when someone got a raw end of the deal. "He currently lives in Adams Morgan with two children and is the founding father of Charter El Haynes Public School. In 2016, Zukerberg founded Zukerberg & amp; Halperin, a personal injury law firm with offices in Washington, DC and Richmond, Virginia.
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Campaign for DC Board
In April 2012, Zukerberg announced his candidacy for a special election to a large seat on the DC Board with a pro-marijuana platform. According to Zukerberg, in 2011, DC first made the arrest with a record number that year. The nomination of his council raises awareness of the importance of the decriminalization of marijuana in Washington, DC.
One of Zukerberg's opponents, Elissa Silverman, unsuccessfully asked him to be disqualified by challenging the validity of his signature. Zukerberg launches and pays for outside companies to investigate DC registered voters list. Zukerberg said he found that the District of Columbia Board of Elections has not updated its bread well, including failing to process 66,000 address change forms.
In a special election, held on 23 April 2013, Zukerberg was fifth from eight candidates, receiving 1,195 votes (2.09%).
Fought for Chosen Attorney
In 2010, 90,316 inhabitants of the District voted "very" to put the first elected attorney D.C. on voting in 2014.
In July 2012, the DC council voted to postpone the attorney general's election until 2018. Board chairman Phil Mendelson called the vote "embarrassing." In September 2013, Zukerberg filed a lawsuit against the DC Council and a town election claiming a delay would violate the district charter - which was amended through voting questions in 2010 to provide for the election of the Attorney General. Attorney General Irvin B. Nathan initially argued that Zukerberg did not suffer "significant difficulties" from pushing back the election. In November 2013, Zukerberg announced his candidacy for the Attorney General and stated that he would suffer irreparable damage if it did not happen.
On February 7, 2014, a District of Columbia judge ruled that an April 1 ballot could be printed without the race of the Attorney General. Zukerberg appealed against the verdict.
On 4 June 2014, the Court of Appeal overturned a lower court decision. According to the ruling, the Court of Appeal "[sets out] that the Supreme Court's interpretation is not correct as a matter of law and vice versa." They declared in the verdict that the original language in the Selected Attorney General's Law was ambiguous in declaring the election "to take place after January 1, 2014," and that the referendum of the attorney general ratified by the majority of DC voters last year made it appear as though elections would take place in 2014. On June 13, Zukerberg collected a petition nomination.
Campaign for Attorney General
Zukerberg said it would be better to represent the public interest than the previous Attorney General, supporting the decriminalization of marijuana, and improving the ease with which non-violent criminal records are removed to promote justice for recovery. She is supported by the Washington Teachers Union, D.C. Board member Tommy Wells, operator of D.C. Capital City & amp; Dads, and the Washington City paper.
According to a Washington Post poll of September 2014, Zukerberg leads the field of Attorney General candidates, with a 7 to 9 point lead over each of his four rivals, Lorie Masters, Edward "Smitty" Smith, Karl Racine and Lateefah Williams. However, the poll also found that 57% of voters have not decided yet.
Zukerberg came fourth behind Karl Racine, who won with 37% of the vote.
References
External links
- Paul Zukerberg for the DC Attorney's campaign website
- The Halterin Zukerberg website
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