Candidate For US Senate: Marisa DeFranco

[Ian David]

Candidate For US Senate: Marisa DeFranco
Published Mar 23 2011, 01:48 PM by David S. Bernstein

Salem immigration attorney Marisa DeFranco has filed to run for US Senator in 2012, seeking the Democratic nomination to challenge Scott Brown.

"I am running -- not thinking about it, not exploring, I'm running," DeFranco says. "This has been in the works for months."

Admittedly little-known, DeFranco intends to build a grassroots campaign, raising money in small-dollar contributions through her networks of attorneys and Democratic activists. She is holding her kickoff fundraising event in Boston on April 14th.

Details of her policy positions will be available on her web site, which will be launched in two weeks, DeFranco says. The cornerstone issues will be "jobs, security, and justice," based in part on her work with businesses, families, and asylum seekers.

More:
http://thephoenix.com/BLOGS/talkingpolitics/archive/2011/03/23/candidate-for-us-senate-marisa-defranco.aspx

Hat-tip to: http://twitter.com/harmonywho/status/50622637566734337




Marisa DeFranco earned a Juris Doctor, Cum Laude from Suffolk University Law School in Boston, Massachusetts in 1996, and was admitted to the Bar in the same year after the first seating for the examination. Marisa has been a member of the American Immigration Lawyers Association since 1998, where she served as a Director on the National Board of Governors and as President of the New England Chapter, 2005 - 2006.

As a law student Marisa attended the Comparative and International Law curriculum at Trinity College in Dublin, Ireland. Marisa is a member of the Women’s Bar Association and completed a semester in Suffolk’s Battered Women’s Program assisting victims of domestic violence. She previously served as a pro bono attorney for Cambridge Legal Services and Counseling Center.



More:
http://www.yourimmigrationcenter.com/marisa.html

[polmaven]

1. I know Marissa

and believe she would make a very good Senator...It is very much a lonmg shot, but knowing her, she will not let that get in her way. She will be a contender.

[Bombtrack]

2. Was she the keyboardist in The DeFranco Family?

[Kat45]

3. She will be speaking to my Democratic Town Committee this week.

We've been having a different candidate speak at our meeting each month. I look forward to hearing her.