EMILYs List Congratulates Seven Candidates Running for the Minnesota Legislature on Winning their Democratic Primaries
For Immediate Release
August 10, 2022
EMILYs List Congratulates Seven Candidates Running for the Minnesota Legislature on Winning their Democratic Primaries
WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today EMILYs List, the nation’s largest resource for women in politics, congratulates seven women for advancing to the general election for the Minnesota Legislature. EMILYs List President Laphonza Butler released the following statement:
“EMILYs List is proud that seven candidates in Minnesota won the Democratic nomination and will be advancing to the general election in November. We’re so thrilled to see the continued success of Democratic pro-choice women, especially those we know will have a monumental impact on both the people of Minnesota and those from neighboring states as they ensure that abortion access remains unobstructed in Minnesota in the state legislature.”
EMILY’s List congratulates the following slate of candidates on their Democratic primary wins:
- Alicia Kozlowski (MN-HD8B)
- Aisha Gomez (MN-HD62A)
- Leigh Finke (MN-HD66A)
- Liz Lee (MN-HD67A)
- Judy Seeberger (MN-SD41)
- Erin Maye Quade (MN-SD56)
- Zaynab Mohamed (MN-SD63)
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.
