KALAMAZOO, MI (WKZO AM/FM) – State Senator Sean McCann announced today that he filed paperwork to appear on the ballot to officially seek re-election to the Michigan State Senate.
McCann will run in the newly drawn 19th Michigan State Senate district that was adopted in December by Michigan’s Independent Citizens Redistricting Commission. The district includes most of Kalamazoo County, as well as Antwerp Township of Van Buren County. McCann currently represents all of Kalamazoo County in the 20th district of the Michigan Senate.
The new 19th District will take effect for the 2022 election and for the coming decade.
McCann served five terms on the Kalamazoo City Commission from 1999-2009 and two terms in the Michigan House of Representatives from 2011-2014. He was first drawn to public service as a student at Western Michigan University and spent his early years out of college working to improve his community as Executive Director of the Vine Neighborhood Association and Director of Development for the American Red Cross of Southwest Michigan.
McCann won election in 2018 to represent the 20th Senate District, which includes all of Kalamazoo County. He serves as minority vice-chair of the Senate Committee on Energy and Technology and minority vice-chair of the Senate Committee on Natural Resources.
As of the end of the 2021 annual campaign finance reporting period, the Sean McCann for State Senate committee says it has raised $294,076 for the current election cycle and had $240,977.51 on hand.
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