Jasmine Brown
Jasmine Brown
Pensacola Mayoral Election
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AUG 19, 2026
General Election
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Overview
Current roleCommunity organizer
Political ideologyDemocratic Socialist
GenderFemale
LocationFlorida
BackgroundCommunity organizer
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Notable personal detailsJasmine Victoria Brown is a community organizer and socialist candidate for Mayor of Pensacola, Florida in the city’s 2026 nonpartisan election. She is a lifelong Pensacola resident and has been active in local organizing around affordability and public policy issues. Her campaign emphasizes housing and cost-of-living concerns and positions city government as prioritizing working people over developers.
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Positions
Economy & Taxes
Supports using mayoral budget authority to prioritize residents' needs, expanding affordable housing and tenant protections, pursuing lower utility bills and a publicly owned power utility, and opposing corporate profiteering by utilities and developers. Platform emphasizes a 'people's budget' and policies such as rent control, funding shelters, and community-centered use of public land.
Healthcare
Jasmine Brown’s campaign platform emphasizes expanding services for vulnerable residents (no-barrier shelters, transition programs) and repurposing the former Baptist Hospital site to meet community needs; she has also spoken publicly that abortion should not be taboo. The campaign materials focus heavily on housing, utilities, and community control, with limited specific policy proposals on health system-level issues such as insurance, Medicaid, or a public option.
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Immigration & Border
Supports protections for immigrants at the city level, including declaring Pensacola a sanctuary city, and emphasizes not criminalizing or demonizing vulnerable residents while framing policy in a humanitarian, pro-immigrant way. The campaign platform pairs these positions with broader calls for housing and equity reforms.
Abortion & Reproductive Rights
Jasmine Brown is an organizer active in local abortion-rights efforts and helped found the Pensacola Abortion Rights Taskforce; she advocates normalizing abortion conversations, supporting safe abortion access, and organizing signature drives and community resources to protect reproductive care. Her activism includes fundraising and distributing reproductive-health supplies and information about obtaining abortion care and medication.
Climate & Energy
Supports fighting utility rate increases and pursuing legal action against Florida Power & Light; advocates transitioning to a clean, affordable, publicly owned power utility under local/community control. Positions emphasize consumer protection, public power, and a clean-energy transition rather than fossil-fuel expansion or climate denial.
Public Safety & Guns
The candidate supports progressive public-safety reforms focused on decriminalization and community-centered responses rather than punitive approaches. Campaign materials call to decriminalize houselessness and prioritize community needs in budgeting, and reporting describes her activism opposing police violence.
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