EMILYs List Congratulates Janet Mills on Advancing to the General Election in Maine’s Gubernatorial

For Immediate Release
June 14, 2022 

EMILYs List Congratulates Janet Mills on Advancing to the General Election in Maine’s Gubernatorial Election

WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today EMILYs List, the nation’s largest resource for women in politics, congratulates Janet Mills on advancing to the general election to determine who will serve as Maine’s next governor. EMILYs List President Laphonza Butler released the following statement:

“As governor, Janet Mills has already committed to ensuring that the state of Maine remains a haven where all of its residents and neighbors can access the reproductive health care they need. But it is also a state where Republican lawmakers and anti-choice politicians have pledged to do all they can to roll back the right to an abortion in Maine, and it is crucial that Gov. Mills be reelected so that she can stand up against these efforts to restrict abortion and fight for the rights of the people of her state. EMILYs List is thrilled to congratulate Gov. Mills, and we look forward to supporting her in the general election.”

Gov. Janet Mills is an experienced leader and an outstanding public servant running for reelection to continue fighting for Maine working families. She prosecuted major crimes as an assistant attorney general and co-founded the Maine Women’s Lobby to give vulnerable women who had survived domestic violence a powerful voice in the state legislature. When Mills stepped up to run for office for the first time, she made history as the first woman to serve as a district attorney in all of New England. She went on to successfully run for the Maine House of Representatives and served as a powerful champion for Maine working families. Mills was elected Maine’s attorney general in 2008 and is the first and only woman ever to hold that office. Maine had never before elected a woman governor until Mills became the first in 2018.

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.