WASHINGTON, D.C. -- EMILY's List, the nation's largest financial resource for women candidates, today announced its endorsement of Congresswomen Debbie Halvorson, Ann Kirkpatrick, Carol Shea-Porter and Dina Titus for re-election in 2010.
It was a historic election night for EMILY's List candidates. EMILY's List helped defeat Republicans and elect more pro-choice Democratic women than in any year since 1992. EMILY's List candidates ousted two Republican senators in nasty, expensive races and won the two most competitive governors races in the country. We added at least 11 new Democratic women to the U.S. House, and possibly as many as 13.
WASHINGTON, D.C. — EMILY's List, the nation's largest political action committee and financial resource for women running for elective office, today announced its endorsement of Debbie Halvorson in Illinois' 11th congressional district.
The anti-choice Susan B. Anthony List is pumping $1 million – and a bunch of falsehoods – into this year’s election. Their mailer, going out to 2 million voters across the country, tries to connect President Obama and Speaker Pelosi with taxpayer-funded abortions in order to dissuade votes for Democrats.
As EMILY's List Political Director, I live and breathe polls: which candidate is up and which is down, which race is tightening, which congressional district is leaning Democratic this year.
When Cong. Debbie Halvorson learned of a greedy and deceptive practice of life insurance companies – holding funds instead of giving lump payments to families who’ve lost loved ones in combat – she knew she had to do something about it. A step-mother of an Army Special Forces soldier who was wounded in Afghanistan in 2008, Debbie has experienced that dreaded phone call in the middle of the night, and she vowed that “our survivors should not suffer any longer.”
We told you earlier about the NRCC's Young Guns program, which helps recruit and train GOPers in targeted open-seat and challenger races. And now we have news that the Young Guns are taking aim and increasing their numbers, adding 32 new GOP candidates to the program -- and using more gun analogies and references than ever!
