Victories in State Legislatures
November 4, 2008, was a banner day for women's health up and down the ballot, and state legislatures were no exceptions.
Highlights included
- Alaska: Three legislative targets won.
- SD K: Bettye Davis
- HD 19: Pete Petersen
- HD 27: Bob Buch
- Arizona: Five legislative targets won.
- HD 11: Eric Meyer
- HD 17: Ed Ableser and David Schapira
- SD 17: Meg Burton-Cahill
- HD 20: Rae Waters
- California: Three legislative targets won.
- SD 5: Lois Wolk
- AD 15: Joan Buchanan
- AD 80: Manuel Perez
- Colorado: Nine legislative targets won.
- SD 19: Evie Hudak
- SD 21: Betty Boyd
- SD 26: Linda Newell
- HD 18: Michael Merrifield
- HD 27: Sara Gagliardi
- HD 31: Judy Solano
- HD 33: Dianne Primavera
- HD 36: Su Ryden
- HD 38: Joe Rice
- Delaware: Four legislative targets won and statehouse flipped to pro-choice leadership.
- SD 4: Mike Katz
- HD 7: Bryan Short
- SD 10: Bethany Hall-Long
- HD 17: Mike Mulrooney
- Florida:One legislative target won.
- HD 69: Keith Fitzgerald
- Georgia: Three legislative targets won.
- SD 6: Doug Stoner
- HD 39: Alisha Thomas Morgan
- HD 44: Sheila Jones
- Hawaii: Seven legislative targets won.
- SD 1: Dwight Takamine
- SD 5: Roz Baker
- SD 12: Brickwood Galuteria
- HD 1: Mark Nakashima
- HD 6: Denny Coffman
- HD 24: Isaac Choy
- HD 47: Jessia Wooley
- Illinois: Four legislative targets won.
- SD 42: Linda Holmes
- HD 17: Beth Coulson
- HD 65: Rosemary Mulligan
- HD 84: Tom Cross
- Indiana: Three legislative targets won.
- HD 86: Ed DeLaney
- HD 89: John Barnes
- HD 97: Mary Ann Sullivan
- Iowa: Five legislative targets won.
- SD 8: Mary Jo Wilhelm
- SD 22: Steve Sodders
- SD 50: Mike Gronstal
- HD 75: Eric Palmer
- HD 84: Elesha Gayman
- Kansas: Two legislative targets won.
- SD 18: Laura Kelly
- HD 23: Milack Talia
- Maine: Two legislative targets won.
- SD 1: Peter Bowman
- SD 15: Deb Simpson
- Massachusetts: Five legislative targets won.
- D-30th Middlesex: James Dwyer
- D-31st Middlesex: Jason Lewis
- D-34th Middlesex: Carl Sciortino
- D-Middlesex and Worcester Senate District: Jamie Eldridge
- D-Worcester and Middlesex Senate District: Jennifer Flanagn
- Michigan: Ten legislative targets won.
- HD 1: Tim Bledsoe
- HD 21: Dian Slavens
- HD 23: Deb Kennedy
- HD 24: Sarah Roberts
- HD 32: Jennifer Haase
- HD 37: Vicki Barnett
- HD 39: Lisa Brown
- HD 62: Kate Segal
- HD 91: Mary Valentine
- HD 101: Dan Scripps
- Minnesota: Nine legislative targets won.
- HD 16A: Gail Kulick Jackson
- HD 17B: Jeremy Kalin
- HD 25B: David Bly
- HD 38A: Sandy Masin
- HD 38B: Mike Obermueller
- HD 41B: Paul Rosenthal
- HD 49B: Jerry Newton
- HD 56A: Julie Bunn
- HD 56B: Marsha Swails
- Missouri: Five legislative targets won and a pro-choice win in the open governor's race.
- HD 24: Chris Kelly
- HD 78: Margo McNeil
- HD 82: Jill Schupp
- HD 85: Vicki Lorenz Englund
- HD 91: Jeanne Kirkton
- Montana: Six legislative targets won.
- SD 26: Lynda Moss
- SD 27: Gary Branae
- HD 8: Cheryl Steenson
- HD 20: Deb Kottel
- HD 62: Bob Ebinger
- HD 63: Jennifer JP Pomnichowski
- Nebraska: Three legislative targets won.
- District 9: Gwen Howard
- District 11: Brenda Council
- District 21: Ken Haar (pending recount)
- Nevada: Six legislative targets won and the state senate flipped to pro-choice leadership; state assembly now has a veto-proof majority of Democrats.
- SD 5: Shirley Breeden
- SD 6: Allison Copening
- AD 24: David Bobzien
- AD 30: Debbie Smith
- AD 31: Bernie Anderson
- AD 40: Bonnie Parnell
- New Hampshire: Three legislative targets won, and the state senate is now majority female!
- SD 4: Kathy Sgambati
- SD 12: Peggy Gilmour
- SD 18: Betsi DeVries
- New York: Three legislative targets won, and the statehouse is under a pro-choice majority, with Democrats taking the state senate and assembly for the first time since the Great Depression.
- SD 3: Brian Foley
- SD 7: Craig Johnson
- SD 15: Joe Addabbo
- North Carolina: Four legislative targets won.
- SD 16: Josh Stein
- SD 24: Tony Foriest
- HD 41: Ty Harrell
- HD 44: Margaret Dickson
- North Dakota: Two legislative targets won.
- SD 18: Connie Triplett
- HD 46: Kathy Hawken
- Ohio: Three legislative targets won and statehouse flipped to pro-choice leadership.
- HD 20: Nancy Garland
- HD 22: John Patrick Carney
- HD 28: Connie Pillich
- Oregon: Four legislative targets won.
- HD 49: Nick Kahl
- HD 50: Greg Matthews
- HD 51: Brent Barton
- HD 52: Suzanne Van Orman
- Pennsylvania: Six legislative targets won.
- HD 13: Tom Houghton
- HD 33: Frank Dermody
- HD 70: Matt Bradford
- HD 151: Rick Taylor
- HD 156: Barbara McIlvaine Smith
- HD 157: Paul Drucker
- Texas: Eleven legislative targets won (and one pending a runoff).
- SD 10: Wendy Davis
- HD 47: Valinda Bolton
- HD 52: Diana Maldonado
- HD 93: Paula Hightower Pierson
- HD 96: Chris Turner
- HD 101: Robert Miklos
- HD 102: Carol Kent
- HD 107: Allen Vaught
- HD 133: Kristi Thibaut
- HD 134: Ellen Cohen
- HD 149: Hubert Vo
- Utah: Four legislative targets won, including the defeat of the anti-choice speaker of the house.
- SD 1: Luz Robles
- HD 23: Jennifer Seeling
- HD 45: Laura Black
- HD 49: Jay Seegmiller
- Washington: Two legislative targets won and one still too close to call. Re-elected pro-choice governor.
- 26th LD: Larry Seaquist
- 45th LD: Roger Goodman
- Wisconsin: Ten legislative targets won and state assembly flipped to pro-choice leadership.
- SD 30: Dave Hansen
- AD 28: Ann Hraychuck
- AD 43: Kim Hixson
- AD 49: Phil Garthwaite
- AD 51: Steve Hilgenberg
- AD 57: Penny Barnard Schaber
- AD 68: Kristen Dexter
- AD 88: Jim Soletski
- AD 91: Chris Danou
- AD 93: Jim Smith