EMILYs List Endorses 13 More Women Leaders for the Kansas Legislature

For Immediate Release
August 25, 2020

EMILYs List Endorses 13 More Women Leaders for the Kansas Legislature

WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today, EMILYs List, the nation’s largest resource for women in politics, endorsed 13 more women leaders for the Kansas Legislature. Stephanie Schriock, president of EMILYs List, released the following statement: 

“EMILYs List is thrilled to endorse 13 more outstanding public servants for the Kansas Legislature. These women are outspoken advocates for equality and justice who have spent their careers serving their communities and their country as teachers, small business owners, and veterans. In the state legislature, they will work alongside Governor Laura Kelly to pass more inclusive policies that lift up working families. We are proud to stand with such phenomenal Kansas women up and down the ballot, and we look forward to helping them make history in November.” 

EMILYs List endorsed the following women: 
Stacey Knoell (SD-09) 
Lindsey Constance (SD-10) 
Joy Koesten (SD-11)
Dinah Sykes (SD-21) 
Wendy Budetti (SD-23) 
Mary Ware (SD-25)
Angela Justus Schweller (HD-14) 
Linda Featherston (HD-16) 
Jo Ella Hoye (HD-17) 
Joana Scholtz (HD-40) 
Jennifer Day (HD-48) 
Stephanie Byers (HD-86)
Stephanie Yeager (HD-96) 

These endorsements are in addition to three women EMILYs List has already endorsed in Kansas: Christina Haswood (HD-10), Lindsay Vaughn (HD-22), and Katie Dixon (HD-49).

EMILYs List, the nation’s largest resource for women in politics, has raised over $600 million to elect pro-choice Democratic 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 strong campaigns, researching the issues that impact women and families, and turning out women voters to the polls. Since our founding in 1985, we have helped elect 150 women to the House, 26 to the Senate, 16 governors, and nearly 1,100 women to state and local office. Nearly 40 percent of the candidates EMILYs List has helped elect to Congress have been women of color. During the historic 2017-2018 cycle, EMILYs List raised a record-breaking $110 million and launched a record independent expenditure campaign. We helped elect 34 new women to the House, including 24 red-to-blue victories; enough seats to have delivered the U.S. House majority alone. Since the 2016 election, more than 55,000 women have 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.