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EMILYs List Congratulates 15 Women Running for the Wisconsin Legislature on Advancing to the Genera

August 10, 2022

For Immediate Release
August 10, 2022 

EMILYs List Congratulates 15 Women Running for the Wisconsin Legislature on Advancing to the General Election

WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today EMILYs List, the nation’s largest resource for women in politics, congratulates 15 candidates in Wisconsin on gaining the Democratic nomination and advancing to the general election. EMILYs List President Laphonza Butler released the following statement:
 
“At a time when Wisconsin is poised to regress back to a 173-year-old abortion ban, and no clinics in the state are currently providing abortions, we could not be more thrilled that 15 Democratic pro-choice women secured the nomination and will be advancing to the general election. We know that in the state legislature, these candidates will advocate tirelessly to ensure bodily autonomy and reproductive health care access for all Wisconsinites, and EMILYs List is proud to be by their side in this fight.” 
 
EMILYs List congratulates the following slate of candidates:

  • Sarah Harrison (WI-AD13)
  • Maureen McCarville (WI-AD37)
  • Jenna Jacobson (WI-AD43)
  • Leah Spicer (WI-AD51)
  • Lori Palmeri (WI-AD54)
  • Lee Snodgrass (WI-AD57)
  • Katrina Shankland (WI-AD71)
  • Laura Gapske (WI-AD73)
  • LuAnn Bird (WI-AD84)
  • Kristin Conway (WI-AD85)
  • Kristina Shelton (WI-AD90)
  • Jessica Katzenmeyer (WI-SD5)
  • Kristin Alfheim (WI-SD19)
  • Kelly Westlund (WI-SD25)
  • Dianne Hesselbein (WI-SD27)

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.