This is the year we can make profound changes on Capitol Hill. This is the year women can manage to make their voices heard, loud and clear.
You can help! to enable these great women to gain seats at the table of power -- and make a difference.
Thanks for all you do, every day, to build a better world.

Darcy Burner (WA-08)
As a community leader and mother, Darcy Burner has the kind of authentic, real world experience that voters identify with. In 2006, she ran for Congress from a standing start, and won solid local and national support, to finish just short against Republican Dave Reichert. Burner is dedicated to WAND’s mission to end the war and redirect military spending to human needs; she has coordinated a realistic plan for returning Iraq to the Iraqis and benchmarks for bringing our troops home.

Joan Fitz-Gerald (CO-02)
State Sen. Fitz-Gerald is a longtime member of WiLL, and a staunch advocate for progressive values. She knows the budget process well, and understands how it reveals our national values. She supports an exit from Iraq as quickly as possible.
Rep. Mark Udall (D-CO) is retiring from his Democrat-leaning House seat in order to run for the U.S. Senate, creating an opening for Joan Fitz-Gerald, the state’s first woman Senate president, to go to Congress.

Beth Hafer (PA-18)
With a commanding lead in her primary race, Hafer is well positioned to be the Democratic nominee in the race to unseat Tim Murphy in November. For more than a decade, she has dedicated herself to improving educational opportunities for young people and encouraging innovation and efficiency in government.
Hafer says her priorities are to identify and secure all nuclear weapons, inspect containers/ports, enhance emergency preparedness and response, protect critical infrastructure and improve intelligence gathering abroad.

Debbie Halvorson (IL-11)
State Sen. Halvorson made her decision to run for Congress while attending the WiLL/WAND national conference in 2007. A longtime WiLL member, she added immeasurably to the energy and integrity at the conference.
Democratic leaders worked for a long time to recruit her to challenge Rep. Weller in IL; when he announced his retirement, this seat shot to the top of the list of prime Democratic pick-up opportunities. Halvorson cleared the field for the primary and must now focus on raising enough money to compete with the full force of a GOP determined to hold onto this seat.

Mary Jo Kilroy (OH-15)
WAND endorsed Kilroy in her run for Congress in 2006, when she nearly unseated the highest-ranking Republican woman in Congress (Deborah Pryce). Pryce outspent Kilroy by almost $2 million, but won by a margin of only 1,062 votes. Kilroy decided to keep her campaign going and run again; when Pryce decided not to seek re-election in 2008, it left this critical seat in a swing state up for grabs!
When Kilroy served as Franklin County Commissioner, the county was ranked as one of the five best-managed in the country (by Governing magazine). Kilroy willl work to restore fiscal sanity to the Federal budget, fix the Medicare prescription drug benefit, and honor our men and women in uniform and their dependents.

Chellie Pingree (ME-01)
When Rep. Tom Allen decided to give up his House seat to run for Senate, Pingree, a former state senator, quickly announced that she would run -- and became the frontrunner in a crowded field. Pingree, who resigned her post as president of Common Cause to run, is a national leader on ethics and reform. WAND endorsed her previously, when she ran to unseat U.S. Sen. Susan Collins (R). While she was outspent and attacked by the drug companies in that race, Pingree mobilized thousands of volunteers in a sophisticated grassroots campaign; she earned widespread respect for speaking out against the Iraq invasion at a time when few politicians were willing to do so.

Jeanne Shaheen (NH-Sen)
The only woman elected Governor of New Hampshire, Jeanne Shaheen worked to make a difference for families. The result is a record of achievement in smart energy policies, expanding access to health care, making government more accountable, improving education, strengthening the state’s economy, preserving our environment, and protecting civil rights.
Shaheen spoke at the 2007 WAND/WiLL national conference, and gave voice to women’s perspective on taking a seat at the tables of power.

Samm Simpson (FL-10)
WAND is proud to endorse Simpson’s run for Congress again, after her effort in 2006. A peace activist and radio personality in Florida, Simpson calls herself an “Independent Thinking Democrat,” and advances far-reaching populist ideas.
She says, “the immediate answer is new national spending priorities. Do we continue to fund our empire on the backs of our grandchildren via debt owned by foreign nations? Or we begin a serious reckoning of the priorities declared in our Constitution?”

Linda Stender (NJ-07)
Assemblywoman Stender is a former mayor and county freeholder; she won a seat in the Assembly in 2001, where she led fights to expand economic development and protect the environment. Stender also led the fight to make emergency contraception available over the counter in New Jersey, to require pharmacists to fill birth control prescriptions, and to make New Jersey a leader in stem cell research.
Her top priorities in Congress are, first, to bring the troops home from Iraq as quickly as possible; second, to expand efforts in homeland security.

Victoria Wulsin (OH-02)
Dr. Vic Wulsin has dedicated her career to public health, working at the community level in Cincinnati and leading international projects around the world. In 2006, she won more votes in Ohio’s second district than any Democrat has ever done before. She came within 2,500 votes of beating Jean Schmidt (a fiercely conservative Republican).

Jackie Speier Elected to Congress

On April 8, Rep. Jackie Speier (CA) won a special election (to fill the seat of Rep. Tom Lantos), and became the 41st woman from the ranks of WAND and WiLL in the 110th Congress. Speier is a former member of WiLL (Women Legislators Lobby, a program of WAND) and a winner of WiLL's Pacesetter Award.

Speier previously served as a congressional aide to the late Rep. Leo Ryan (D-CA) and was the youngest person ever elected to the San Mateo County Board of Supervisors. Following her six-year tenure with the Board of Supervisors, she served 18 years in the California State Legislature, 10 years in the Assembly and eight in the Senate.

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