EMILYs List Endorses Four Women for Reelection to the Boston City Council

For Immediate Release

August 5, 2021

EMILYs List Endorses Four Women for Reelection to the Boston City Council

WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today, EMILYs List, the nation’s largest resource for women in politics, endorsed four women for reelection to the Boston City Council. Emily Cain, executive director of EMILYs List, released the following statement:

“EMILYs List is thrilled to stand alongside these four women leaders as they run for reelection and continue to move Boston forward. With these Democratic pro-choice women in office, the Boston City Council has made incredible steps toward opportunity and equity for all. Progress has been made on issues that impact the standard of living for all Bostonians, including racial justice, affordable housing, education, climate change, public transportation and infrastructure, and labor rights. ”

EMILYs List endorsed the following slate of candidates for reelection:

Lydia Edwards (District 1)

Kenzie Bok (District 8)

Liz Breadon (District 9)

Julia Mejia (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.