EMILYs List Endorses Kimberly Beaty for Erie County Sheriff

For Immediate Release
October 5, 2021 

EMILYs List Endorses Kimberly Beaty for Erie County Sheriff 

WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today, EMILYs List, the nation’s largest resource for women in politics, endorsed Kimberly Beaty for Erie County, NY sheriff. Laphonza Butler, president of EMILYs List, released the following statement:

“EMILYs List is thrilled to endorse Kimberly Beaty for sheriff in Erie County, New York. Chief Beaty has spent her career advocating for community policing, crisis intervention, responsible leadership, and accountability. Kimberly’s core values of dignity, respect, and fairness are key to helping restore trust between the sheriff’s office and the community. We look forward to supporting Kimberly as she runs her historic campaign to be the first woman of color elected sheriff in New York State.”  

Kimberly Beaty has served in law enforcement for over 34 years. She began as a patrol officer with the Buffalo Police Department in 1986 and then climbed the ranks, eventually serving as chief of Buffalo’s E-District and later as deputy police commissioner. For the last 21 years, Kimberly has been a certified master police instructor and has trained law enforcement officers all across New York State on professional conduct, crisis intervention, and how to best serve diverse communities. She is also certified federally and by New York State as a domestic violence instructor. If elected, Kimberly Beaty would be the first woman of color elected sheriff in New York State.

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, 158 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.