Lucas,
EMILY's List is an important part of my new book, A Fighting Chance.
It's true -- in the book, I wrote about the day that EMILY's List President Stephanie Schriock came to see me. Massachusetts hadn't done well with electing women in statewide office, but she wanted me to run for the United States Senate. Something Stephanie said really stuck with me:
"We need to try. When a woman runs, she makes it easier for the next woman to run, and that's how we'll win."
Stephanie is right: We win by running. So what do you say: Are you ready to win again, Lucas?
Contribute $5 to EMILY's List right now to help women across the country keep running -- and keep winning -- in 2014. If you chip in this week, you'll be automatically entered to win a signed copy of my new book, A Fighting Chance, where you can read about our 2012 campaign for the Senate and all the big fights we've been a part of together.
In the book, I also talk about a conversation I had with Patty Murray (another EMILY's List champion) about whether or not I should run for the Senate. I was listing all sorts of reasons why I wasn't good enough to run, and Patty cut me off.
"Men never ask if they're good enough to hold public office," Patty said. "They just ask if they can raise enough money to win."
That's why EMILY's List is so important: You give women up and down the ballot -- women like me -- the encouragement and financial support we need to fight for what we believe in.
Contribute to EMILY's List right now to give Alison Lundergan Grimes, Michelle Nunn, Natalie Tennant, and so many other terrific women the same incredible support you gave me in 2012. If you help elect more Democratic women in 2014, you'll be automatically entered to win a signed copy of my new book, A Fighting Chance.
There's one last story I want to tell you about from my book, because it's one of my favorites.
Whenever I'd meet a little girl on the campaign trail, I'd bend down, take her pinky and tell her, "I'm Elizabeth and I'm running for Senate, because that's what girls do." I've probably made pinky promises with hundreds of girls all across Massachusetts.
I didn't say it in the book, but I want you to know: That's what girls do, because EMILY's List made it what girls do.
Thank you for being a part of this,
Elizabeth Warren