EMILYs List Endorses Candi King and Angelia Williams Graves for the Virginia House of Delegates
For Immediate Release
December 18, 2020
EMILYs List Endorses Candi King and Angelia Williams Graves for the Virginia House of Delegates
WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today, EMILYs List, the nation’s largest resource for women in politics, endorsed Candi King for Virginia’s 2nd state House District and Councilwoman Angelia Williams Graves for Virginia’s 90th state House District. Stephanie Schriock, president of EMILYs List, released the following statement:
“EMILYs List is proud to endorse Candi King and Councilwoman Angelia Williams Graves, two proven public servants. Candi is an outspoken advocate for quality public education whose experience as a small business owner will make her a phenomenal advocate for her community. Angelia is a leader and champion for affordable housing with years of valuable experience as a member of the Norfolk City Council. Virginians deserve representatives who will fight for their interests in Richmond, and that’s exactly what they’ll get when they elect Candi and Angelia to the House of Delegates. EMILYs List is thrilled to stand with them, and we look forward to their victories on January 5th.”
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 1,300 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.
