A former elected Harbor Commissioner, Mr. Jenkins was the 2004 Democratic Nominee for the 33rd Assembly District who at the time advocated that redistricting of the Legislature should be done by a special grand jury in open session with members drawn from throughout the State of California. Mr. Jenkins, with his co-counsel Saro Rizzo, recently defended the County Democratic Party in Wilson v. San Luis Obispo County Democratic Central Committee; where they established for the first time in the United States the right of citizens to freely organize and structure county political parties under the 1st Amendment in more inclusive ways than “permitted” by a State Legislature.