Annie Black Announces Run For U.S. Congress

A Mesquite business owner and conservative politician has announced that she will be running for a seat in the U.S. Congress this year.

On Tuesday, Jan. 4, state assemblywoman, Annie Black, announced her campaign for Nevada’s 4th Congressional district, a seat currently being held by Rep. Steven Horsford (D-Las Vegas).
Annie Black was born and raised in Las Vegas with her nine siblings and parents.

Following high school, Black decided to skip college for a career in real estate and opened her own small business. In 2017, Black and her family moved to Mesquite. She was elected to the Mesquite City Council in 2018.

In 2020, Black challenged three-term Republican incumbent Chris Edwards for his District 19 seat. During the primary election campaign, Black criticized Edwards for not being fiscally conservative enough, specifically emphasizing his role in the passage of a $1.5 billion omnibus tax plan engineered by GOP Governor Brian Sandoval in 2015.

Black defeated Edwards in the 2020 Republican primary and was elected to the seat unopposed in the general election.

At the State Legislature she became known as a hard-line conservative, not shrinking from a skirmish, willing to take on bureaucracy and standing up for conservative principles.

During the pandemic, Black organized and held rallies advocating the need to get people of the state back to work. She openly criticized Nevada Governor Steve Sisolak for instituting state-wide shutdowns and health mandates.

Last year, as Governor Sisolak and legislators in Carson City instituted extended mask mandates in the Capitol, Black was censured by Democrats for refusing to wear a mask or provide proof of vaccination on the Assembly floor.

In a statement released Monday morning announcing her run for the Congressional seat, Black pointed out that under the current leadership in Washington inflation is at a 40-year high and Nevada’s unemployment rate is the highest in the country at 7.3 percent.

“The Nevada I know and love is the land of opportunity,” Black said in the statement. “But the Biden-Horsford economic policies are destroying our state and bankrupting Nevadans. I’m running for Congress to get our economy going again and to fight for every Nevadans chance to work for their American Dream.”

Additional information about Black’s run for Congress is available at AnnieForNevada.com.