EMILYs List Congratulates Six Women On Their Election to the Boston City Council

For Immediate Release
November 3, 2021

EMILYs List Congratulates Six Women On Their Election to the Boston City Council

WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today, EMILYs List, the nation’s largest resource for women in politics, congratulated six candidates on their election to the Boston City Council. Laphonza Butler, president of EMILYs List, released the following statement:
 
“EMILYs List is thrilled to congratulate Lydia Edwards, Kenzie Bok, Liz Breadon, and Julia Mejia on their reelection, and Ruthzee Louijeune and Tania Fernandes Anderson on their election to the Boston City Council. We are proud that the Council will remain majority women, and know that with these six Democratic pro-choice women at the helm, Boston will continue to lead on issues including racial justice, affordable housing, climate change, public transportation and infrastructure, and labor rights. We look forward to watching everything these women will accomplish in their upcoming term.”

EMILYs List congratulated the following slate of candidates on their victories:
Lydia Edwards (District 1)
Tania Fernandes Anderson (District 7)
Kenzie Bok (District 8)
Liz Breadon (District 9)
Julia Mejia (At-Large)
Ruthzee Louijeune (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.