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EMILYs List Congratulates 19 Pro-Choice Champions on their Election to the North Carolina General

November 9, 2022

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
November 9, 2022

EMILYs List Congratulates 19 Pro-Choice Champions on their Election to the North Carolina General Assembly

WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today EMILYs List, the nation’s largest resource for women in politics, congratulates 19 women on their election to the North Carolina General Assembly and their accomplishment protecting Governor Roy Cooper’s critical veto. EMILYs List President Laphonza Butler released the following statement:
 
“As anti-choice judges and politicians work to push abortion out of reach for North Carolinians, EMILYs List congratulates 19 Democratic pro-choice women on their election the North Carolina General Assembly and their critical role in protecting the governor’s veto. We know that they will advocate tenaciously to protect our reproductive rights, and we are thrilled to stand by them in the fight for our fundamental freedoms.”
 
EMILYs List is thrilled to congratulate the following slate of candidates on their election and reelection to the North Carolina General Assembly:

  • Kandie Smith (NC-SD05)
  • Lisa Grafstein (NC-SD13)
  • Sydney Batch (NC-SD17)
  • Mary Wills Bode (NC-SD18)
  • Valencia “Val” Applewhite (NC-SD19)
  • Rachel Hunt (NC-SD42)
  • Julie Mayfield (NC-SD49)
  • Deb Butler (NC-HD18)
  • Ya Liu    (NC-HD21)
  • Rosa Gill (NC-HD33)
  • Julie von Haefen (NC-HD36)
  • Maria Cervania (NC-HD41)
  • Renée Price (NC-HD50)
  • Ashton Wheeler Clemmons (NC-HD57)
  • Sarah Crawford (NC-HD66)
  • Diamond Staton-Williams (NC-HD73)
  • Laura Budd (NC-HD103)
  • Patricia “Tricia” Cotham (NC-HD112)
  • Lindsey Prather (NC-HD115)

EMILYs List, the nation’s largest resource for women in politics, works to elect Democratic pro-choice women up and down the ballot and across the country with a goal of fighting for our rights and our communities. Our work is centered around a fundamental vision: Run. Win. Change the World. EMILYs List has raised over $700 million in service to that vision and has helped Democratic women win competitive elections by recruiting and training candidates, supporting and helping build strong campaigns, researching the issues that impact women and families, running one of the largest independent expenditure campaigns for Democrats, and turning out women voters 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 nearly 1,400 women to state and local office. More than 40% of the candidates EMILYs List has helped elect to Congress have been women of color. Visit www.emilyslist.org for more information.