EMILYs List Endorses Nine Candidates for Election to the North Carolina General Assembly
For Immediate Release
August 17, 2022
EMILYs List Endorses Nine Candidates for Election to the North Carolina General Assembly
WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today EMILYs List, the nation’s largest resource for women in politics, endorsed nine women for election to the North Carolina General Assembly. EMILYs List President Laphonza Butler released the following statement:
“As the GOP threatens to roll back access to reproductive health care access in North Carolina, we are thrilled to endorse nine more pro-choice champions who will tenaciously advocate for reproductive rights in the state. EMILYs List is proud to endorse candidates who are fighting for justice and freedom, and we are confident that they will fight for a better future for every North Carolinian.”
EMILY's List endorsed the following slate of challengers for election in North Carolina:
- Valerie Jordan (NC-SD03)
- Marcia Morgan (NC-SD07)
- Valencia “Val” Applewhite (NC-SD19)
- Ya Liu (NC-HD21)
- Christine Kelly (NC-HD37)
- Maria Cervania (NC-HD41)
- Diamond Staton-Williams (NC-HD73)
- Laura Budd (NC-HD103)
- Patricia “Tricia” Cotham (NC-HD112)
These endorsements are in addition to the 17 previously endorsed EMILYs List candidates headed to the general election North Carolina: Kandie Smith (NC-SD05), Lisa Grafstein (NC-SD13), Sydney Batch (NC-SD17), Mary Wills Bode (NC-SD18), Rachel Hunt (NC-SD42), Julie Mayfield (NC-SD49), Deb Butler (NC-HD18), Amy Block DeLoach (NC-HD20), Linda Cooper-Suggs (NC-HD24), Rosa Gill (NC-HD33), Julie Von Haefen (NC-HD36), Renée Price (NC-HD50), Ashton Wheeler Clemmons (NC-HD57), Sarah Crawford (NC-HD66), Carla Catalán Day (NC-HD74), Christy Clark (NC-HD98), and Lindsey Prather (NC-HD115).
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, 159 women to the House, 26 to the Senate, 16 governors, and more than 1,300 women to state and local office. More than 40% 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.
