Madeline Brame — a crime victims advocate and mother of slain Army veteran Hason Correa — announced that she is running for Congress against incumbent Rep. Jamaal Bowman.
“…The mom of a slain Army veteran announced she has switched her allegiance to the Republican Party in a bid for Congress after slamming Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg for giving her son’s killer “slaps on the wrist” while railing against the Democrats’ soft on crime policies.
Madeline Brame had become a crime victims advocate after her son, Hason Correa, a 35-year-old married father of three and a veteran of the war in Afghanistan, was fatally beaten and stabbed during a scuffle outside a Harlem apartment building in 2018.
The “lifelong Democrat” said she was initially confident that her her son’s murderers would be “brought to justice.”
“I was reassured by the District Attorney that everyone involved in Hason’s killing would be prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law, and was confident in what he said, until Alvin Bragg succeeded him,” she said Wednesday.
“Mr. Bragg set forth in attempting to give slaps on the wrist to all of my son’s killers. I fought him tooth and nail with everything I had, not because I was a well-connected investment banker, or someone with powerful friends in high places, but because I was Hason’s mother, grandmother to his children, and while nothing I do can ever bring him back I was not going to let Bragg or anyone else let my son’s killers walk…”
