EMILYs List Endorses JoAnna Mendoza For Election to Arizona’s 6th Congressional District
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WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today EMILYs List, the nation’s largest resource for women in politics, endorsed JoAnna Mendoza for election to Arizona’s 6th Congressional district. EMILYs List President Jessica Mackler released the following statement:
“EMILYs List is proud to endorse JoAnna Mendoza for Arizona’s 6th Congressional District. While Juan Ciscomani continues to abandon Southern Arizonans and instead bow down to Trump’s billionaire-first agenda, JoAnna is the fearless leader Arizonans need to stand up for working families in Congress. We know JoAnna has what it takes to defeat Juan Ciscomani and protect reproductive freedom, and we are honored to stand with her in this election fight.”
JoAnna Mendoza is a lifelong public servant who fought her way out of poverty. She is the daughter of farm workers and the oldest of five, where she grew up in rural Pinal County, Arizona. At just 17, she answered the call to serve, enlisting in the U.S. Navy before joining the U.S. Marine Corps. During her 20-year military career she served as a drill instructor, an instructor at Marine Officer Candidate School, and staff non-commissioned officer for sexual assault prevention and response. Additionally, her service includes deployments to Iraq and Afghanistan. She brought the same courage and determination from her military leadership to her community — working to ensure that veterans, working families, and rural Arizonans have an authentic voice. As a veteran and a person who knows what it means to struggle, she is deeply committed to lowering grocery prices, making housing more affordable, expanding access to affordable health care, supporting our veterans, securing our water, and promoting economic development in rural communities. She is a fearless pro-choice champion committed to restoring our rights and fighting back.
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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. Over 40 years, EMILYs List has raised nearly $950 million to help 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 most impactful 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, 192 women to the House, 29 to the Senate, 20 governors, and over 1,600 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.
