WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today EMILY’s List, the nation’s largest resource for women in politics, congratulates Secretary Maggie Toulouse Oliver on advancing to the general election in the New Mexico secretary of state race. EMILY’s List President Laphonza Butler released the following statement:
“EMILY’s List congratulates Secretary Maggie Toulouse Oliver on advancing to the general election in her bid to win reelection as New Mexico’s secretary of state. Since 2016, Toulouse Oliver has utilized her election administration expertise to ensure the integrity of New Mexico’s elections as secretary of state. We know that we can count on this pro-choice champion to advance justice throughout the state while she continues preserving and protecting the state’s elections.”
Maggie Toulouse Oliver has called New Mexico home since age three and is currently serving as the state’s 26th secretary of state. She was first elected in 2016. In 2007, she was appointed as a County Clerk in Bernalillo County, N.M. where she served until her election as secretary of state. Before entering public service, Toulouse Oliver worked her way through college and graduate school and gained activism and organizing experience.
EMILY’s List, the nation’s largest resource for women in politics, has raised over $700 million to elect Democratic pro-choice women candidates. With a grassroots community of over five million members, EMILY's List helps Democratic women win competitive campaigns – across the country and up and down the ballot – by recruiting and training candidates, supporting and helping build strong campaigns, researching the issues that impact women and families, running nearly $50 million in independent expenditures in the last cycle alone, and turning out women voters and voters of color to the polls. Since our founding in 1985, we have helped elect the country's first woman as vice president, 159 women to the House, 26 to the Senate, 16 governors, and more than 1,300 women to state and local office. More than 40% of the candidates EMILY’s List has helped elect to Congress have been women of color. After the 2016 election, more than 60,000 women reached out to EMILY's List about running for office laying the groundwork for the next decade of candidates for local, state, and national offices. In our effort to elect more women in offices across the country, we have created our Run to Win program, expanded our training program, including a Training Center online, and trained thousands of women.
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