EMILYs List Statement on Georgia’s Runoff Elections

For Immediate Release
December 2, 2020

EMILYs List Statement on Georgia’s Runoff Elections

WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today, EMILYs List, the nation’s largest resource for women in politics, congratulated Sonya Halpern (SD-39) on her victory in the Georgia State Senate runoff election and Deborah Gonzalez on her election as Western Judicial Circuit district attorney. Stephanie Schriock, president of EMILYs List, released the following statement:

“As we work to elect more pro-choice Democratic women of color across the country, EMILYs List is thrilled to congratulate Deborah Gonzalez and Sonya Halpern on their hard-fought victories, and proud to celebrate Deborah becoming the circuit’s first woman and Latina district attorney. In the State Senate, Sonya will be a strong voice in the fight for fair maps, quality public schools, and affordable health care and housing. As district attorney, Deborah will champion fairness and equality and bring transparency and accountability to the Western Judicial Circuit. Sonya and Deborah are helping change the face of power across Georgia, and we look forward to their leadership.” 

EMILYs List, the nation’s largest resource for women in politics, has raised over $700 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 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, 157 women to the House, 26 to the Senate, 16 governors, and more than 1,200 women to state and local office. More than 40 percent of the candidates EMILYs 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.