EMILYs List Endorses Rebecca Cooke for Wisconsin’s 3rd Congressional District
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WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today EMILYs List, the nation’s largest resource for women in politics, endorsed Rebecca Cooke for Wisconsin’s 3rd Congressional District. EMILYs List President Jessica Mackler released the following statement:
“EMILYs List is proud to endorse Rebecca Cooke in this election to replace anti-abortion extremist Rep. Derrick Van Orden. As a small business owner and community leader, Cooke has proven to be passionate about service to others and that makes her a great candidate to represent Wisconsin’s 3rd Congressional District. We are confident that in Congress Cooke will fight to protect Wisconsinites’ fundamental freedoms and we are proud to stand with her in this election and flip this critical seat blue.”
Rebecca Cooke is a small business owner and nonprofit leader, who grew up working on her family’s Eau Claire dairy farm. She attended the University of St. Thomas in St. Paul, Minnesota. At 28, she started a small retail business in downtown Eau Claire that Cooke ran for seven years. In 2016, Cooke founded the Red Letter Grant, a nonprofit that supports and empowers female entrepreneurs. The program helped over 50 women-owned businesses launch successfully. Gov. Tony Evers appointed her to the Wisconsin Economic Development Corporation, making her the youngest appointee. In Congress, Cooke will work to build a sustainable economy that benefits working families, strengthens our education system, and protects our reproductive rights.
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. Our work is centered around a fundamental vision: Run. Win. Change the World. EMILYs List has raised $850 million in service to that vision and has helped 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 largest 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, 175 women to the House, 26 to the Senate, 20 governors, and over 1,500 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.
