Sarah Unsicker | |
|---|---|
| Member of the Missouri House of Representatives | |
| In office January 4, 2017 –January 8, 2025 | |
| Preceded by | Jeanne Kirkton |
| Succeeded by | Ray Reed |
| Constituency | 83rd (2017–2021) 91st (2021–2025) |
| Personal details | |
| Political party | Democratic |
| Education | Washington University School of Law (JD) |
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.
Unsicker graduated from Washington University School of Law with a Juris Doctor in 2005. [1] [2]
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]
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]
| Year | Office | Party | Primary | General | Result | Ref. | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Total | % | P. | Total | % | P. | ||||||
| 2016 | Missouri House of Representatives (83rd) | Democratic | 3,530 | 100% | 1st | 12,287 | 56.50% | 1st | Won | [4] [5] | |
| 2018 | Missouri House of Representatives (83rd) | Democratic | 8,482 | 100% | 1st | 13,539 | 65.68% | 1st | Won | [22] [6] | |
| 2020 | Missouri House of Representatives (91st) | Democratic | 8,471 | 100% | 1st | 18,156 | 100% | 1st | Won | [23] [7] | |
| 2022 | Missouri House of Representatives (91st) | Democratic | 4,581 | 100% | 1st | 11,078 | 75.90% | 1st | Won | [24] [8] | |