EMILYs List Statement on Rep. Park Cannon Arrest in Georgia and Voter Suppression Bill
For Immediate Release
March 26, 2021
EMILYs List Statement on Rep. Park Cannon Arrest in Georgia and Voter Suppression Bill
WASHINGTON, D.C. — Today, Stephanie Schriock, president of EMILY's List, the nation's largest resource for women in politics, released the following statement on the arrest of Rep. Park Cannon (GA-HD58) for merely knocking on Republican Governor Brian Kemp’s office door while he signed a bill restricting voting rights for the people of Georgia:
“At EMILYs List, we are proud to support leaders like Rep. Park Cannon who refuse to sit back while this kind of abuse of power continues. When Republicans lose elections, they don’t change their priorities, they change the rules so that it’s harder for voters to continue to reject their fear mongering tactics. Voting should be celebrated across our country and made more accessible. Instead, the bill passed by Republicans in Georgia does the opposite, going as far as to make it illegal to distribute food or water to voters waiting in line. Voters are watching and this type of power grab will only serve to motivate our communities to turn out to vote and pay close attention to who is elected to represent them at all levels.”
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, 157 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.
