EMILYs List Endorses Alicia DelVento in Massachusetts Special Election

For Immediate Release
February 18, 2021

EMILYs List Endorses Alicia DelVento in Massachusetts Special Election

WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today, EMILYs List, the nation’s largest resource for women in politics, endorsed Alicia DelVento in the special election for Massachusetts House District 19. Stephanie Schriock, president of EMILYs List, released the following statement:

“EMILY's List is excited to endorse Alicia DelVento for the Massachusetts House.  Raised on Winthrop’s water tower hill, the granddaughter of a union laborer and a war refugee, Alicia has deep roots in her community and strong ties to educators, nurses, and essential workers. After working for four years as committee staff in the Massachusetts House, Alicia has the critical experience to serve the people of Winthrop and Revere and will fight to increase public school funding, protect women’s access to reproductive health care, and advocate for working families.” 

EMILYs List, the nation’s largest resource for women in politics, has raised over $700 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 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, 157 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.