EMILYs List Statement on North Carolina’s Down-Ballot Primary Election Results
For Immediate Release
March 4, 2020
EMILYs List Statement on North Carolina’s Down-Ballot Primary Election Results
Today, EMILYs List, the nation’s largest resource for women in politics, congratulated 12 women on winning their primary elections in North Carolina. Stephanie Schriock, president of EMILYs List, released the following statement:
“These outstanding candidates are leaders in their communities and EMILYs List is proud to support their campaigns to represent the people of North Carolina. In office, they will work to protect women’s access to reproductive care, expand economic opportunity for working families, and put an end to the partisan politics that have plagued state government and stifled progress in North Carolina. Pro-choice Democratic women have been instrumental in moving North Carolina forward, and we look forward to their victories in the general election.”
EMILY's List congratulates the following women as they advance to the general election:
Beth Wood (Auditor)
Jenna Wadsworth (Commissioner of Agriculture)
Natalie Murdock (SD-20)
Julie Mayfield (SD-49)
Marcia Morgan (HD-19)
Jean Farmer-Butterfield (HD-24)
Rosa Gill (HD-33)
Frances Jackson (HD-45)
Verla Insko (HD-56)
Evelyn Terry (HD-71)
Aimy Steele (HD-82)
Becky Carney (HD-102)
EMILYs List, the nation’s largest resource for women in politics, has raised over $600 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 strong campaigns, researching the issues that impact women and families, and turning out women voters to the polls. Since our founding in 1985, we have helped elect 150 women to the House, 26 to the Senate, 16 governors, and nearly 1,100 women to state and local office. Nearly 40 percent of the candidates EMILYs List has helped elect to Congress have been women of color. During the historic 2017-2018 cycle, EMILYs List raised a record-breaking $110 million and launched a record independent expenditure campaign. We helped elect 34 new women to the House, including 24 red-to-blue victories; enough seats to have delivered the U.S. House majority alone. Since the 2016 election, more than 50,000 women have 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.
