EMILYs List Endorses Katrina Foley in California Special Election
For Immediate Release
February 12, 2021
EMILYs List Endorses Katrina Foley in California Special Election
WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today, EMILYs List, the nation’s largest resource for women in politics, endorsed Katrina Foley in the special election for Orange County Board of Supervisors, District 2. Sarah Curmi, vice president of state and local campaigns at EMILYs List, released the following statement:
“EMILY's List is excited to endorse Katrina for the Orange County Board of Supervisors. Katrina’s experience as both a city councilmember and mayor of Costa Mesa makes her more than ready to serve the people of Orange County. She will be a fierce advocate for working families, environmental protection, and job creation.”
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.
