Cannick to Run for 47th District Delegate Seat

Local community activist and journalist Jasmyne Cannick has announced her bid to represent the 47th Assembly District as a delegate on the County Central Committee in California’s June 3rd State Primary election. Primarily responsible for recruiting and working for the election of Democratic Party candidates throughout their county, Democrats will go to the polls on June 3rd to elect seven members from their respective Assembly districts to the County Central Committee. This is Jasmyne’s first run for public office. Information: www.Vote4Jasmyne.com.

The 47th Assembly District includes the Los Angeles communities of Westwood (including University of California Los Angeles), West Los Angeles, Rancho Park, Cheviot Hills, Mid City, Palms, Crenshaw, West Adams, Leimert Park and Hyde Park; the unincorporated communities of View Park-Windsor Hills, Ladera Heights and Baldwin Hills; and all of Culver City. The last day to register to vote in the June 3rd election is May 19th. 

Currently, at 30, Jasmyne Cannick is a critic and commentator who writes about the worlds of pop culture, race, class, and politics as played out in the African-American community.

Previously she served as the press secretary to the California Legislative Black Caucus and Assemblyman Mervyn M. Dymally, and more recently in the United States House of Representatives. 

She co-founded the National Black Justice Coalition, the nation’s Black gay civil rights group and served as co-chair of the National Stonewall Democrats Black Caucus.  Locally, Jasmyne continues to make time to volunteer with Earl Ofari Hutchinson’s Los Angeles Urban Policy Roundtable and the Pan African Film and Arts Festival.