EMILYs List Endorses Six Women Leaders for Re-Election to the North Carolina General Assembly

For Immediate Release

November 13, 2019

EMILYs List Endorses Six Women Leaders for Re-Election to the North Carolina General Assembly

WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today EMILYs List, the nation’s largest resource for women in politics, endorsed six women leaders for re-election to the North Carolina General Assembly. Stephanie Schriock, president of EMILYs List, released the following statement:

“Pro-choice Democratic women have been on the front line demanding change and championing progressive policies that put women and families first. From the North Carolina GOP’s use of shameful tactics to undermine the democratic process during the budget fight to their failed attempts to enact dangerous, anti-choice legislation that would keep women from making their own health care decisions, we’ve seen how out of touch Republicans are with their constituents and how critical progressive women’s voices have been in the fight to move North Carolina forward. It is crucial that we send these six women back to Raleigh in 2020 and EMILYs List is proud to stand with them in their bids for re-election.”

EMILYs List endorsed the following slate of candidates:

Representative Jean Farmer-Butterfield (HD-24)

Representative Julie von Haefen (HD-36)

Representative Sydney Batch (HD-37)

Representative Christy Clark (HD-98)

Representative Rachel Hunt (HD-103)

Senator Natasha Marcus (SD-41)

EMILYs List, the nation’s largest resource for women in politics, has raised over $600 million to elect pro-choice Democratic 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 strong campaigns, researching the issues that impact women and families, and turning out women voters to the polls. Since our founding in 1985, we have helped elect 150 women to the House, 26 to the Senate, 16 governors, and nearly 1,100 women to state and local office. Nearly 40 percent of the candidates EMILYs List has helped elect to Congress have been women of color. During the historic 2017-2018 cycle, EMILYs List raised a record-breaking $110 million and launched a record independent expenditure campaign. We helped elect 34 new women to the House, including 24 red-to-blue victories; enough seats to have delivered the U.S. House majority alone. Since the 2016 election, more than 50,000 women have 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.