Leading EMILY’s List for the past 11 years has been a tremendous honor and joy. I am so proud of everything we have accomplished together. But I wanted to share that I will be stepping down as president at the end of March.
Over the past 11 years, @emilyslist has raised more than $460 million to elect pro-choice Democratic women. In that time, we've endorsed more than 1,800 women, elected nearly 1,000 women up and down the ballot, and trained more than 14,000 women.
That’s the power of this community. And our work recruiting, training, and advising pro-choice Democratic women to run for office with a firm commitment to diversity, equity, and inclusion will continue.
In its 35-year history, @emilyslist has only had 2 presidents, and we take the search for our next president seriously. I'll have more to share in the coming months. But for now, I just want to say: Thank you, from the bottom of my heart.
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This is an important piece from @joanwalsh and something we've seen far too often during this campaign: the erasure of the women running. @ewarren placed a strong third in Iowa and is being left out of the conversation. thenation.com/article/politi…
It's the same with @amyklobuchar, who went from single digits last month to coming close to a former VP who has run twice before. After more than a year of campaigning, these women are being dropped from the conversation after just one state.
Let's put aside that these women are still facing ridiculous narratives around electability or pundits like Donny Deutsch who somehow gets to declare someone unlikeable or strident and not notice or understand the sexism in that statement.