Endorsed candidates support full equality for lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer Americans. Check who they are...
Listed first are ENDORSED CANDIDATES TO FUND followed by OTHER ENDORSED CANDIDATES.
These are the top priority candidates to support. Do three things:
- HELP THEM: raise money, host a house party, donate, volunteer.
- TELL THEM: that you are an LGBTQ donor and that you are proud they support LGBTQ legal equality.
- FOLLOW UP: after the election, congratulate them and encourage them to pass legislation for legal equality.
ENDORSED CANDIDATES TO FUND IN 2009-2010
These candidates are the top priority for funding:
- They are pro-equality (support all the Equality Goals)
- They are running for federal or statewide office
- They are in a competitive race (usually polling within 10 points of the opponent). See the criteria for endorsements.
- All of the candidates to fund were personally interviewed by eQualityGiving. To initiate the endorsement process, the candidate must complete this form.
GIVE TO KRYSTAL BALL (D-VA) FOR US HOUSE
Letter from Donor | Donate to Ball | Ball campaign website
This 27 year old CPA, software designer and mommy from Virginia wants
to bring the values that young people have to Congress, including the
need to raise their children in a society that promotes safety and
equality.
"There is no
right more fundamental than the choice of whom you marry and raise
children with. This is the essence of the Constitution. Equality under
the law, whether you are gay or straight, black or white, man or woman,
Christian, Jew or Muslim."
GIVE TO SECRETARY OF STATE DEBORAH MARKOWITZ (D-VT) FOR GOVERNOR OF VERMONT
Letter from Lesbian Sister | Donate to Markowitz | Markowitz campaign website
As Secretary of State for 12 years, she is the perfect candidate to defeat the anti-equality incumbent. As the sister of a lesbian, she understands LGBTQ issues intimately. As a civil rights attorney, she wants to make Vermont the first state to provide FULL equality to ALL its citizens. As Governor, she will sign the Gender Identity Act.
"It is my hope that when my children are ready to get married, the issue of marriage equality will be behind us, and we can focus on what is truly important--our common interest to have stable loving families."
GIVE TO MAYOR GAVIN NEWSOM (D-CA) FOR GOVERNOR OF CALIFORNIA
Letter from Donor | Donate to Newsom | Newsom campaign website
In 2004, the mayor stunned everyone when he ordered local officials to
allow civil marriages to same sex couples in San Francisco. He brought
the issue to the mainstream media so that images of joy were seen
around the world.
"I believe
in the notion that has been advanced in this country that separate is
not equal, whether applied to race, gender, or sexual orientation.
Marriage equality is a principle that I believe in and we must continue
the fight.
MAXIMUM CONTRIBUTION
For statewide races, the maximum you can donate depends on the state. For candidates to Congress and President, the maximum total that you can give to federal candidates in 2009-2010 is
$45,600 ($2,400 to individual candidates). This is why it is critical
to focus your giving on candidates that are pro-equality before giving
to candidates that may not be 100% on our issues.
OTHER ENDORSED CANDIDATES IN 2009-2010
These candidates up for election in 2010 deserve to be endorsed since they are pro-equality, but funding their campaigns is not as strategic because they are not in a competitive race (either they consistently poll ahead of the opponent by more than 10 points or they trail the opponent consistently by more than 10 points). Should any eQualityGiving Heroes find themselves in close races, they will be listed as an Endorsed Candidate to Fund, and an alert will be send to inform the donors.
These Endorsed Candidates are pro-equality Incumbents and are expected to win re-election handily:
- SENATOR RUSS FEINGOLD - Wisconsin
- SENATOR KRISTEN GILLIBRAND - New York
- SENATOR CHUCK SCHUMER - New York
- SENATOR RON WYDEN - Oregon
- SPEAKER OF THE HOUSE NANCY PELOSI - California
- CONGRESSWOMAN TAMMY BALDWIN - Wisconsin
- CONGRESSWOMAN SHELLEY BERKLEY - Nevada
- CONGRESSMAN EARL BLUMENAUER - Oregon
- CONGRESSMAN KEITH ELLISON - Minnesota
- CONGRESSMAN BARNEY FRANK - Massachusetts
- CONGRESSWOMAN GABRIELLE GIFFORDS - Arizona
- CONGRESSMAN RUSH HOLT - New Jersey
- CONGRESSMAN JESSE JACKSON JR. - Illinois
- CONGRESSMAN PATRICK KENNEDY - Rhode Island
- CONGRESSMAN DENNIS KUCINICH - Ohio
- CONGRESSWOMAN BARBARA LEE - California
- CONGRESSMAN JOHN LEWIS - Georgia
- CONGRESSWOMAN CAROLYN MALONEY - New York
- CONGRESSWOMAN BETSY MARKEY - Colorado
- CONGRESSMAN JIM MCGOVERN - Massachusetts
- CONGRESSWOMAN GWEN MOORE - Wisconsin
- CONGRESSMAN JIM MORAN - Virginia
- CONGRESSMAN JERROLD NADLER - New York
- CONGRESSMAN JOHN OLIVER - Massachusetts
- CONGRESSWOMAN CHELLIE PINGREE - Maine
- CONGRESSMAN JARED POLIS - Colorado
- DELEGATE ELEANOR HOLMES NORTON - District of Columbia
These Endorsed Candidates are pro-equality
but are not in close races and are either expected to win or lose by a wide
margin:
Check also: Form to Endorse Candidates | Endorsement Criteria | Heartbreaking Candidates | Candidates to Defeat
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