EMILYs List Endorses Three Candidates for St. Petersburg City Council
For Immediate Release
July 29, 2021
EMILYs List Endorses Three Candidates for St. Petersburg City Council
Today, EMILYs List, the nation’s largest resource for women in politics, endorsed three city council candidates in St. Petersburg, FL. The three endorsed women are Brandi Gabbard, Gina Driscoll, and Lisset Hanewicz. Emily Cain, executive director of EMILYs List, released the following statement:
“EMILYs List is thrilled to endorse these candidates and support their efforts to protect the female supermajority on the St. Pete City Council. With Brandi and Gina on the City Council, St. Pete has made tremendous strides toward increasing access to affordable housing, battling climate change with progressive legislation, and helping small businesses prosper. If elected, Lisset will make history as the first Hispanic official to serve on the City Council and will be able to hit the ground running on day one, using her experience as a former state and federal prosecutor to advocate for the people of St. Pete. We are confident that all three of these women will serve as champions for women, children, and families in St. Petersburg.”
EMILYs List endorsed the following slate of candidates for election:
Brandi Gabbard, District 2
Lisset Hanewicz, District 4
Gina Driscoll, District 6
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.
