Osvaldo E. Fumo (born July 27, 1965) is an American politician and former Democratic member of the

Nevada Assembly The Nevada Assembly is the lower house of the Nevada Legislature, the state legislature of the U.S. state of Nevada, the upper house being the Nevada Senate. The body consists of 42 members, elected to two-year terms from single-member district ...

. He represented the 21st district, which covers parts of the southern

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. He is currently a candidate for District attorney of

Clark County, Nevada Clark County is located in the U.S. state of Nevada. As of the 2020 census, the population was 2,265,461. Most of the county population resides in the Las Vegas Census County Divisions, which hold 1,771,945 people as of the 2010 Census, acros ...

Biography

Fumo was born in

Arlington, Virginia Arlington County is a county in the Commonwealth of Virginia. The county is situated in Northern Virginia on the southwestern bank of the Potomac River directly across from the District of Columbia, of which it was once a part. The county ...

in 1965, the son of an Italian immigrant, and moved to Nevada in 1976. He graduated from

Bishop Gorman High School Bishop Gorman High School (also commonly referred to as Gorman High School or BGHS) is a private Roman Catholic preparatory school located in Las Vegas, Nevada. The school is administered by the Diocese of Las Vegas. The school opened in 1954. ...

in 1983 and from the University of San Diego in 1987. Fumo received his Juris Doctor from

Whittier Law School Whittier Law School was a law school in Costa Mesa, California founded in 1966. The law school was part of Whittier College, a private institution. After several years being ranked among the poorest-performing law schools in the United States ba ...

in 1995, and practices law with the firm Pitaro & Fumo. Fumo ran for the Assembly in 2016, prevailing in a three-candidate Democratic primary and defeating incumbent Derek Armstrong. On November 3, 2020, Fumo unsuccessfully ran to become a justice on the

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Personal life

Fumo and his wife, Ellen, have 5 children: Genevieve, Veronica, Gabriella, Scott, and Stephanie.

Political positions

Fumo supports raising the minimum wage to at least $12. He supports ending Capital punishment in Nevada, and ending the

school-to-prison pipeline In the United States, the school-to-prison pipeline (SPP), also known as the school-to-prison link, school–prison nexus, or schoolhouse-to-jailhouse track, is the disproportionate tendency of minors and young adults from disadvantaged backgroun ...

. He cites the disproportionate use against people of color and high fiscal impact of capital punishment as reasons for its abolition.

Electoral history

References

External links

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Campaign website

Legislative website
{{DEFAULTSORT:Fumo, Ozzie 1965 births Living people 21st-century American politicians Bishop Gorman High School alumni Democratic Party members of the Nevada Assembly Nevada lawyers Politicians from Arlington County, Virginia Politicians from Las Vegas University of San Diego alumni Whittier Law School alumni American people of Italian descent