EMILYs List Congratulates Four Incumbents for Proceeding to the General Election in Boston

For Immediate Release
September 15, 2021

EMILY's List Congratulates Four Incumbents for Proceeding to the General Election for Boston City Council

WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today, EMILYs List, the nation’s largest resource for women in politics, congratulated four incumbents for advancing to the general election for Boston City Council. Laphonza Butler, president of EMILYs List, released the following statement:

“EMILYs List is thrilled that Lydia Edwards, Kenzie Bok, Liz Breadon, and Julia Mejia advanced through their preliminary elections and will proceed to the general election in November. With these four Democratic pro-choice women on the Council, Boston has become a leader on issues including racial justice, affordable housing, climate change, public transportation and infrastructure, and labor rights. We are proud to stand by these leaders as they proceed to the November general.”

EMILYs List congratulated the following slate of candidates on advancing to the general election:
Lydia Edwards (District 1)
Kenzie Bok (District 8)
Liz Breadon (District 9)
Julia Mejia (At-Large)

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.