[5] Kitts first ran for city council in the 2018 Ottawa municipal election in Orleans Ward, losing to Matthew Luloff by 264 votes.
[7] Kitts ran in the 2020 by-election in Cumberland Ward (which contains her new residence), which was vacated when its councillor Stephen Blais was elected to the Legislative Assembly of Ontario.
During the campaign, Kitts was endorsed by a number of high-profile Liberals, including Blais, Luloff, MP Marie-France Lalonde, and former MPPs Madeleine Meilleur and Phil McNeely.
[3] Despite her high profile Liberal endorsements, Kitts has never been a member of any political party, and considers herself a "moderate".
[1] Kitts was easily re-elected in the 2022 Ottawa municipal election in the re-named Orléans South-Navan Ward.