Candidates
Eleanor’s Legacy Committee Endorses Christine Quinn for New York Mayor
NEW YORK, NY – The Board of Directors of the Eleanor Roosevelt Legacy Committee is proud to announce its endorsement of Christine Quinn for Mayor of the City of New York. At a Board meeting today, the twelve-year-old organization, which supports progressive pro-choice Democratic women running for office throughout New York State, praised Quinn’s record…
Read MoreCommunity leader, city councilwoman Jill Miller Zimon to run for Ohio statehouse
PEPPER PIKE, OH—Jill Miller Zimon, City of Pepper Pike Council Member, political journalist and civic engagement strategist, announces her candidacy for State Representative in Ohio’s newly redrawn House District 12. The new district stretches from Cleveland Ward 1 in the west, south through Maple Heights, Bedford and Bedford Heights, east through Warrensville Heights, North Randall…
Read MoreWendy Davis inches closer to running for Texas governor
By TODD J. GILLMAN and EMILY WILKINS, Dallas News -WASHINGTON — Edging closer to a bid for governor, state Sen. Wendy Davis declared Monday that her focus has narrowed to that race or a bid for re-election. “I can say with absolute certainty that I will run for one of two offices,” said Davis. The…
Read MoreA Bet on Clinton – If They Network, She Will Run
By NICHOLAS CONFESSORE, New York Times -A new group dedicated to paving the way for a Hillary Clinton campaign in 2016 has already recruited dozens of the Democratic Party’s elite donors and bundlers, effectively kicking off the presidential money hunt more than three years before Election Day. The group also produced buttons to distribute to…
Read MoreSpecial Election Gives L.A. City Council Its Only Woman
Although 54% of Los Angeles residents are women, none of them held seats on the 15-member city council—until today. Nury Martinez defeated (pdf) Cindy Montanez in a runoff for the Sixth District seat to re-establish a female presence on the council that has been historically thin and intermittent at best. Only 17 women have been…
Read MoreMichelle Nunn Enters 2014 Georgia Senate Race
Huffington Post – CLARKSTON, Ga. — Georgia emerged as a battleground state Monday in the fight for control of the U.S. Senate as Democrat Michelle Nunn announced plans to run for her father’s old seat, joining a crowded field of Republican contenders and setting off what will likely be a fiercely contested and costly race.…
Read MoreAlison Grimes U.S. Senate Campaign Kickoff Tuesday in Lexington
Kentucky Secretary of State Alison Lundergan Grimes will hold her official campaign kickoff event and rally to defeat the most powerful Republican in the country, Mitch McConnell on Tuesday, July 30th at 5:30 p.m. The event will be held at the Carrick House, 312 North Llmestone Street, Lexington KY. All supporters are welcome and…
Read MoreSpecial Election for State Senate Seat in California Tuesday
By John Ellis — The Fresno Bee – Few among California’s political cognoscenti expected the special election in the Valley’s 16th Senate District to become an expensive, heated, nip-and-tuck showdown between Democrat Leticia Perez and Republican Andy Vidak. But that’s exactly what has happened since Vidak almost won the strongly Democratic district in the primary. Now…
Read MoreEMILY’s List Puts Kentucky’s Elisabeth Jensen on “The List”
WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today EMILY’s List, the nation’s largest resource for women in politics, put Elisabeth Jensen, candidate for Congress in Kentucky’s Sixth Congressional District, “On the List.” The EMILY’s List community now stands more than two million members strong. “On the List” is a way to ensure EMILY’s List members can engage with and…
Read MoreThe Grimes Road Map to Defeat Mitch McConnell
By Kyle Trygstad, The Hill – For Democrats to win statewide in Kentucky, they must run up the score in urban areas without turning off voters in the state’s agricultural and coal counties. That’s as hard as it sounds — especially when a candidate can be painted by the competition as unsupportive of coal, one of…
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