What Women Are Saying
"I think it is so important that EMILY's List is investing in state legislative races like mine. They recognize that those of us working at the state level are on the front lines on choice and other progressive issues. Many of the women EMILY's List is supporting at the state and local level today will be governors and members of Congress tomorrow!" -- New Jersey Assemblywoman Linda Stender
"We have to start people way early in the pipeline. We need people running for office not as a career, but because they have a set of values or principals that they want to push through." -- California state Assemblywoman Karen Bass
"EMILY's List connected me with other secretaries of state they had worked with and I talked with them about the office.... EMILY's List really came in down the stretch." -- Missouri Secretary of State Robin Carnahan
"The entire seminar was very educational and inspirational! I am more enthused than ever about my campaign and am very anxious to start using the things I learned!" -- Sheriff Ann Hraychuck, candidate for Assembly in WI
Because money is so integrated into the ability to win, it's tempting to stop [when you are] running for office with no money. You can't communicate your message. ... We need to make sure that the next generation of American women has all the opportunities that we do. ... Women serving in office have made and will make a tremendous difference in how this country looks and will look in the next 20 years." -- Colorado state Senate President Joan Fitz-Gerald
"Thanks to the technical support, financial contributions, and support from EMILY's List and the POP program, I was able to run an aggressive, successful campaign. They helped me become the third African American woman to ever serve in the Pennsylvania Senate." -- Pennsylvania State Senator LeAnna Washington
"My biggest fear had always been asking people for money. The training gave me the tools, and with them the confidence, to go out there and do it." -- Syracuse Common Council president Bea Gonzalez (Women's eNews, 07/04/05)
"I began my campaign with a good core of support, but, to win a tough campaign, I needed to reach beyond that into every community across my district." -- California state Assemblywoman Nicole Parra
"If you want to make that difference, you want to make that investment in time, and that's what I'm hoping to do and hoping to get from here." -- Ancris Munoz, New York City seminar attendee