Past OPALGA Co-Chair, Ray Johnson Receives Endorsement From The Victory Fund
You may not know about the Gay & Lesbian Victory Fund and Leadership Institute, but since 1991 it has helped hundreds of openly LGBT candidates win election to local, state and federal offices. The Victory Fund provides strategic, technical and financial support to those that it endorses and has been acknowledged as a determinative factor in the successful election or appointment of its endorsed candidates. The Victory Fund is also the nation’s largest LGBT political action committee and one the nation’s largest nonpartisan PACs.
Recently, the Victory Fund announced its endorsement of local Oak Park Board of Trustee candidate and past OPALGA co-chair, Ray Johnson in his re-election campaign. Johnson said, “I am very honored and proud to have been recognized by the Victory Fund. I truly appreciate their confidence in me and the work that I have done for the Village of Oak Park.”
You can visit the Victory Fund website at www.victoryfund.org and learn more about it and their work. The Victory Fund endorsed OPALGA member, Mary Colleen Roberts last fall during her successful Cook County Judgeship race. In the Chicagoland area, the Victory Fund also endorsed Debra Shore in her successful commissioner race for the Cook County Metropolitan Water Reclamation Authority. Debra holds the record for receiving the highest actual votes of any lesbian candidate for any office in the United States.
