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Focusing on hate crimes By LETISHA DASS ldass@liherald.com
Letisha Dass
THE BOARD OF the Asian American Institute for Research and Engagement includes, from left, Laura Curran, Dr. Ijaz Ahmad, Farrah Mozawalla, Cherry Huang, Dawei Zhou and Dr. Sadia Chaudhury.
Anti-Asian sentiment has grown since the coronavirus outbreak. According to the Pew Research Center, one-third of Asian Americans fear threats, physical attacks or other violence against them. Since the pandemic began, 31 percent of Asian Americans say they have been more likely than any other minority group to be the subject of racial slurs and jokes. “We need that to stop,” said Farrah Mozawalla, of Woodbury, the former executive director of the Nassau County Office of Asian American Affairs and the first Muslim ever appointed as a department head in the county. CONTINUED ON PAGE 9
Candidate Zimmerman is hoping fourth time is a charm By LAURA LANE llane@liherald.com
Rober t Zimmer man, an unpaid political commentator for more than a decade for Fox News, CNN and MSNBC, is hoping to replace Congressman Tom Suozzi, who is running for governor, in the U.S. House of Representatives. Suozzi’s 3rd Congressional District has been redrawn, effective January 2023, when it will stretch from Stony Brook, in Suffolk County, west across the North Shore to Queens, the Bronx and Westchester County.
Zimmerman, 67, a lifelong Democrat, is co-president and cofounder of ZE Creative Communications, a public relations firm in Great Neck, where he lives. People have told him, he said, that it’s his time to make another run for elective office. It will be the fourth attempt for the Democratic National Committee member of 22 years. Zimmerman ran unsuccessfully for Congress in 1982, when he was just 27. He was a candidate for the State Assembly in 1986 and 1988, and lost both times. Then he took a break from being a candidate to building a suc-
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cessful business. So why is he running now? “We are facing the biggest threat to democracy since the Civil War,” Zimmerman said.
“Everything I believe in is on the line. So many people today feel isolated. And so many families are trying to rebuild after Covid. We need for people to feel safe again.” Zimmerman has advocated for women’s reproductive rights, gun safety and LGBTQ rights for decades. Some of that advocacy,
which he described as his “mission in life,” has been personal. “When I grew up in the ’70s in Great Neck, it was a very isolating time to be a gay kid,” he said. “I even had a former educator suggest conversion therapy to me. I found that political activism gave me a voice after high CONTINUED ON PAGE 7