EMILYs List Congratulates Whitney Fox on Her Primary Victory in Florida’s 13th Congressional District
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WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today EMILYs List, the nation’s largest resource for women in politics, congratulates Whitney Fox on her primary victory in Florida’s 13th Congressional District. EMILYs List President Jessica Mackler released the following statement:
“We are proud to congratulate Whitney Fox on her primary election win in Florida’s 13th Congressional District. She is a community advocate dedicated to improving the lives of people in the Tampa Bay area and we know she would bring that same tenacity to Congress in order to restore reproductive rights. Defeating anti-abortion extremists like Rep. Anna Paulina Luna is critical and EMILYs List is honored to stand with Whitney in this election.”
Whitney Fox is a strategic communications and public policy professional who was raised in the Tampa Bay area by her single mother. She is a graduate of the University of Central Florida and most recently served as the communications director for the Pinellas Suncoast Transit Authority. Fox has advocated at the local, state, and federal level for public transportation solutions and successfully secured funding for programs dedicated to improving public transportation, such as the SunRunner Bus Rapid Transit Service. Fox is committed to ensuring freedom and equality for all, access to quality public education, affordable health care, protecting our reproductive freedoms, and safeguarding our environment. Fox currently lives in the Tampa Bay area with her husband and two young daughters.
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 $850 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 operations 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, 175 women to the House, 26 to the Senate, 20 governors, and over 1,500 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.
