EMILYs List Endorses Vivian Smotherman for the Colorado State Senate

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today EMILYs List, the nation’s largest resource for women in politics, endorsed Vivian Smotherman for the Colorado state Senate District 6. EMILYs List President Jessica Mackler released the following statement:

“EMILYs List is thrilled to endorse Vivian Smotherman for the Colorado state Senate. Smotherman has developed vast experience throughout her lifetime that will contribute to her successfully representing the people of District 6. She is passionate about fighting for our reproductive freedoms and supporting rural communities. We are confident she is the candidate to beat anti-choice Republican Cleave Simpson Jr. and are proud to stand with Smotherman as she makes history as Colorado’s first openly transgender member of the state Senate.”

Vivian Smotherman has worked as a sailor, a farmer, a teacher, an oil field worker, and a non-profit organizer and volunteer. She has over 35 years of experience in education and working across the world. She has degrees in both history and anthropology. Smotherman is also a U.S. Navy veteran and is committed to fighting for indigenous peoples and reproductive rights. If elected, she will be the first openly transgender member of the Colorado Senate.
 
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.