State Senate Majority Leader Nicole Cannizzaro announces run for Nevada Attorney General

State Senate Majority Leader Nicole Cannizzaro has announced that she's running for Nevada Attorney General.

Currently, that position is filled by Aaron D. Ford.

Cannizzaro is the first woman to serve as Majority Leader of the Nevada State Senate, first elected in 2016.

Cannizzaro also served as a prosecutor in the Clark County District Attorney’s Office for 11 years, including as Chief Deputy in the Gang Unit.

She released a video along with a written statement:

“I’m running for Attorney General to keep Nevadans safe, protect our rights, and fight for a fairer economy where Nevadans can actually get ahead,” said Nicole Cannizzaro. “Our leaders should be focused on making Nevada safer and stronger, but the Trump administration and Congress have continued their assault on ordinary Nevadans, cutting Medicaid and funding for our schools, attacking Planned Parenthood and reproductive rights, and raising the cost of energy, housing and groceries. They’re ripping us off so they can help billionaires and big corporations, and it’s up to state leaders to fight back. As a former gang prosecutor, I don’t scare easy. I’ve taken on the big fights to protect reproductive health care, cut health care and drug costs, and go after corporate investors who have jacked up the cost of housing. I’m ready to take the fight to anyone who tries to make life harder for Nevadans.”