Restaurant owner Kim Delorit Jensen will try her hand at politics after announcing her intentions Monday to run for the First Assembly District seat as a Democrat. The owner of four different businesses in Egg Harbor and Fish Creek, Jensen feels more needs to be done to help protect the environment, keep workers off of state and federal benefits, and have everyone pay their fair share for improvements. She points to her experience as a small business owner as to how she can help implement change in the First District.

Jensen is in the process of getting the necessary signatures for her nomination papers in order to get on the partisan primary ballot on August 11th. If she were to advance to the general election, Jensen would likely face Republican incumbent Rep. Joel Kitchens, who has also started the process to run for his third term in the First Assembly District.