EMILYs List Endorses 19 Candidates for the Colorado General Assembly
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September 2, 2022
EMILYs List Endorses 19 Candidates for the Colorado General Assembly
WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today EMILYs List, the nation’s largest resource for women in politics, endorsed 19 additional candidates for the Colorado General Assembly. EMILYs List President Laphonza Butler released the following statement:
“We are thrilled to endorse 19 more women for election in Colorado. These women will protect abortion access and champion Coloradan’s reproductive freedom in a time when anti-choice Republicans are actively fighting for abortion bans. Colorado needs pro-choice leaders to continue to secure access to abortion care. We need to support these pro-choice champions in their fight to expand access and look forward to their victories this November.”
EMILY's List endorsed the following slate of candidates:
- Janice Marchman (CO-SD15)
- Lisa Cutter (CO-SD20)
- Faith Winter (CO-SD25)
- Jessie Danielson (CO-SD22)
- Julie Gonzales (CO-SD34)
- Julie McCluskie (CO-HD13)
- Stephanie Vigil (CO-HD16)
- Regina English (CO-HD17)
- Jennifer Parenti (CO-HD19)
- Monica Duran (CO-HD23)
- Lindsey Daugherty (CO-HD24)
- Tammy Story (CO-HD25)
- Meghan Lukens (CO-HD26)
- Brianna Titone (CO-HD27)
- Shannon Bird (CO-HD29)
- Mary Young (CO-HD50)
- Barbara McLachlan (CO-HD59)
- Eliza Hamrick (CO-HD61)
- Junie Joseph (CO-HD10)
These endorsements are in addition to the previously endorsed EMILYs List legislative candidates headed to the general election in Colorado: Jenny Willford (CO-HD34), Ruby Dickson (CO-HD37), Elizabeth Velasco (CO-HD57).
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 over $700 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 campaigns 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, 159 women to the House, 26 to the Senate, 16 governors, and nearly 1,400 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.
