Arizona: Emerge

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi is due in Phoenix Friday to speak at a fundraiser for Emerge, a candidate-training group that she helped launch seven years ago in the Bay Area.
Pelosi's appearance will benefit the Arizona branch of Emerge, a labor-backed group that recruits and trains Democratic female candidates for offices ranging from school board to Legislature, as well as schooling women in the inside mechanics of running campaigns.
"I'm still pinching myself," said an elated Dana Kennedy, who runs the local Emerge chapter.
Kennedy helped recruit Pelosi, then a Democratic congresswoman from San Francisco, to serve on the inaugural board of Emerge ...

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