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EMILYs List Congratulates 17 Candidates Running for the Arizona State Legislature

August 4, 2022

For Immediate Release
August 4, 2022 

EMILYs List Congratulates 17 Candidates Running for the Arizona State Legislature on Advancing to the General Election

WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today EMILYs List, the nation’s largest resource for women in politics, congratulates 17 women for advancing to the general election for the Arizona State Legislature. EMILYs List President Laphonza Butler released the following statement:
 
“EMILYs List is thrilled to announce that 17 candidates in Arizona will be advancing to the general election as they run to represent their communities in the state legislature. We know that these pro-choice champions will tenaciously advocate for our reproductive rights amid Republican efforts to deny bodily autonomy, criminalize health care, and push abortion further out of reach in the state. These candidates are on the front lines of the fight for our rights and we are proud to stand with them today and through November.”
 
EMILY's List congratulates the following slate of challengers and incumbents:

  • Jeanne Casteen (Senate-LD02)
  • Christine Marsh (Senate-LD04)
  • Eva Burch (Senate-LD09)
  • Mitzi Epstein (Senate-LD12)
  • Cindy Hans (Senate-LD13)
  • Priya Sundareshan (Senate-LD18)
  • Raquel Terán (Senate-LD26)
  • Judy Schweibert (House-LD02)
  • Laura Terech (House-LD04)
  • Lorena Austin (House-LD09)
  • Stacey Travers (House-LD12)
  • Patty Contreras (House-LD12)
  • Jennifer Pawlik (House-LD13)
  • Dana Allmond (House-LD17)
  • Consuelo Hernandez (House-LD21)
  • Stephanie Stahl Hamilton (House-LD21)
  • Analise Ortiz (House-LD24)

EMILYs 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 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.