WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today, EMILY’s List, the nation’s largest resource for women in politics, congratulated 24 candidates on their election to the Virginia House of Delegates. Laphonza Butler, president of EMILY’s List, released the following statement:
“EMILY’s List is thrilled to congratulate these 24 leaders on their election to the Virginia House of Delegates. With Democratic pro-choice women in the House, Democrats have been able to expand health care accessibility, protect reproductive freedom, champion gun safety protections, and more. While we did not secure the majority, we are confident that the Democratic pro-choice women in office will be strong advocates for all Virginians and the EMILY’s List community looks forward to continue working with them and all of our candidates going into 2022 to show voters the importance of turning out for their state and local elections to elect champions for women and families.”
EMILY’s List congratulated the following slate of candidates on their election victories:
Candi King (HD-02)
Wendy Gooditis (HD-10)
Danica Roem (HD-13)
Kelly Convirs-Fowler (HD-21)
Elizabeth Guzmán (HD-31)
Kathleen Murphy (HD-34)
Kaye Kory (HD-38)
Vivian Watts (HD-39)
Eileen Filler-Corn (HD-41)
Kathy Tran (HD-42)
Elizabeth Bennett-Parker (HD-45)
Charniele Herring (HD-46)
Michelle Maldonado (HD-50)
Briana Sewell (HD-51)
Sally Hudson (HD-57)
Karrie Delaney (HD-67)
Dawn Adams (HD-68)
Betsy Carr (HD-69)
Delores McQuinn (HD-70)
Irene Shin (HD-86)
Angelia Williams Graves (HD-90)
Jeion Ward (HD-92)
Shelly Simonds (HD-94)
Cia Price (HD-95)
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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