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One of the plot lines in a movie I watched over the weekend involved a pregnant mother. The film was set in the 1940s, and I thought how blissfully ignorant were the days before ultrasounds and prenatal diagnoses gave mothers carrying ill or handicapped children the choice to bear them when nature decided or kill them beforehand. Had Texas state senator and gubernatorial candidate Wendy Davis been pregnant back then she would not have imagined the late-term baby girl doing flips inside her was “suffering.” Rather, Davis would have put her hand on her belly and smiled. Instead, quoting from...

How does a Democrat candidate for the highest office in the state become a nonperson at the "non-partisan" Texas Tribune? When that person's campaign goes into such a freefall that it becomes an embarrassment to even report on it. Such seems to be the case with the Wendy Davis campaign for  governor in Texas. The last time the Texas Tribune directly reported about her was a full week ago on August 15 which not so coincidentally is when the Rick Perry indictment happened. The backlash from that obviously political indictment  which is already falling apart as reported by Bryan Preston...

The political arm of the Planned Parenthood abortion business says it will spend as much as $3 million in Texas to elect pro-abortion gubernatorial candidate Wendy Davis and other pro-abortion candidates. Cecile Richards, the president of America’s biggest abortion corporation was in the Lone State State to push her plan. Cecile Richards, president of the national advocacy group Planned Parenthood Votes, said the effort aims to draw differences between Democrat Wendy Davis and Republican Greg Abbott, the state attorney general, in the campaign for governor. wendydavis12“When women have a chance to know the difference between candidates, they won’t vote for...

Today on Slate’s feminist XX blog, there was a headline that read: Even if She Loses in Texas, Wendy Davis Is a Win for America. Seriously? So, a Texas State Senator, who filibustered a bill that would ban abortions twenty-weeks into a pregnancy last summer, is a “win for America?” Jessica Grose, who wrote the article, added: Now, for all the support Davis’ campaign has received from fellow Democrats in Washington and elsewhere—former Michigan Gov. Jennifer Granholm called her “Joan of Arc, standing up there for women all across the country”—she’s still running for governor of a deeply red state....

-snip- Thanks to conservative writer and Red State editor Erick Erickson, Davis will forever be known as “Abortion Barbie.” The moniker is a bit insulting but apropos given her steadfast defense of abortion on demand. And when Davis was in Los Angeles for a swanky fundraiser with he left-wing buddies to help her campaign back home in the Lone State State, it was not ironic that she was confronted with posters reminding her of her single-handed defense of late-term abortions. -snip-

It’s election year once again, and, with the general election in Texas fast approaching, things are about to heat up, especially the governor’s race between Republican Greg Abbott and Democrat Wendy Davis. Abbott is currently enjoying huge leads in the polls. Despite massive amounts of money being poured into Davis’ campaign, primarily from out of state and including Chicago socialists, a series of missteps (or lies) and the dismissal of her campaign by the Democratic Governor’s Associations appear to have doomed her campaign into becoming a blip that will soon be recorded history. However, there was a time in Fall...

Would you like to see a documentary about women and babies, or my selfies with squirrels? We’ve all heard the critical news that Instagram may ban pop star Rihanna if she posts topless photos. We heard about a teen who attempted to take a selfie with a squirrel. We heard that James Franco kissed Lindsay Lohan and “it was lame.” Self-described journalists who give us the juicy scoop on Rih Rih, Lo Lo and Franco, have buried the story of America’s biggest serial killer, Dr. Kermit Gosnell, and the testimonials of women who have had abortions. It’s time for a...

The Wall Street Journal reported on Tuesday about a big setback for the Wendy Davis campaign for Texas governor.  The Democratic Governors Association (DGA) did not include her campaign as a top target which means it won't be prioritized for heavy spending. The reaction from the Davis campaign could best be described as an angry hissy fit which bitterly attacked the DGA. Pretty big political news from Texas to the extent it was covered by the Wall Street Journal. Therefore you would expect the Texas Tribune which is supposed to cover the nuts and bolts details of Texas politics to...

Legendary singer Willie Nelson will be featured at a high-dollar fundraiser for Democratic governor nominee Wendy Davis. The event will be held April 27 in the Houston backyard of plaintiff’s lawyer Steve and Amber Mostyn, featuring barbecue, Nelson and — for those who stay overnight at the Hotel ZaZa — a campaign briefing on Monday morning.

Republican starlets Rick Perry and Sarah Palin are both known for their personalities, love of guns, sexiness, and moments of TV humiliation, but only one of them is doing something to avoid forever being labelled an idiot. After his intellectual humiliation during the last presidential election cycle — during which he was unable to remember his own policy points — Perry is becoming considerably more wonkish than we’ve previously known him, fashioning himself as something of an elder statesman, in stark contrast to Palin. The Texas governor, a pair of smart-person glasses now permanently attached to his face, has been...

Political narratives are necessarily reductive, invariably gauzy and thus often misleading," writes the New York Times Magazine's Robert Draper in a 7,000-plus word profile of Texas Democratic candidate for governor Wendy Davis. Draper favorably examines the complicated biography of Davis, which the Dallas Morning News revealed is different than the one told by her campaign. While Draper acknowledges that key facts of her biography remain disputed, he insists that "female politicians were far more constrained than men in how they recounted their stories. "A man could break the mold of American virtue. A woman challenged stereotypes at her peril," he...

Texas gubernatorial candidate and San Antonio native Mayor Bill White made his first campaign visit in the Countdown City this week. White blasted Perry on a handful of issues including education. White states he's eager to work towards improving the education system in Texas with specific programs geared towards helping "Hispanics and other minorities." Additionally, White has a brilliant scheme for decreasing the drop out rate: "...Letting people know that by leaving school early they will cut their earning ability in half." With ideas as revolutionary as this one, White should have world hunger and world peace solved BEFORE he...

After hiatus, TV ads back with vengeance Sanchez criticizes insurance rates; Perry says figures from '98 09/17/2002 By WAYNE SLATER / The Dallas Morning News AUSTIN - Resuming the TV ad attacks suspended in observance of Sept. 11, Democrat Tony Sanchez on Monday blamed Gov. Rick Perry for allowing the highest homeowner insurance rates in the nation. The new Sanchez spot cites industry figures that Texas homeowners are paying $680 a year above the national average for insurance. "You're paying the Perry premium," an announcer says in the 30-second ad, the third in a series of spots critical of...

No letup in new Perry ad Sanchez camp says governor feeding voters lies about laundering 08/08/2002 By PETE SLOVER / The Dallas Morning News AUSTIN - The televised mud toss known as the Texas governor's race raged on Tuesday. GOP Gov. Rick Perry launched a new variation on his recent advertising theme: Democratic rival Tony Sanchez is unfit to govern because drug dealers used his savings and loan to launder money. After a Perry ad last week provoked complaints that it stretched the money-laundering point, the latest spot draws a narrow focus: a Laredo jury's 1987 verdict that newspaper...

Sanchez calls for inquiry into Perry interview of judge Jurist says job bid, husband's backing of ad not connected 08/04/2002 Staff and Wire Reports Democratic nominee Tony Sanchez has called for an investigation into a report that a Houston lawyer offered public support of Gov. Rick Perry's campaign on the same day the man's wife was interviewed by the governor for a job. Dan Hedges met with reporters Monday to back Mr. Perry's ad linking Mr. Sanchez to Mexican drug dealers. The Perry campaign said there was no connection between Mr. Hedges' efforts on Mr. Perry's behalf and Appeals...

Insurers own Perry, Sanchez says Need for data prevents quick fix for rising rates, governor says 05/21/2002 By BETSY BLANEY / Associated Press LUBBOCK - Tony Sanchez intensified his criticism Monday of Gov. Rick Perry's plan to regulate the property-insurance industry, saying that Mr. Perry "is bought and paid for" by insurance companies and that has kept him from calling a special legislative session to stem rising rates. Mr. Sanchez, the Democratic gubernatorial nominee, said that hundreds of thousands of dollars from insurance companies have gone into Mr. Perry's campaign coffers through the years. "He has to dance to...

Perry leads by 25 points in poll Results reveal ethnic divide; Sanchez says deficit is 12 points 05/20/2002 By GEORGE KUEMPEL / The Dallas Morning News AUSTIN - Gov. Rick Perry enjoys a commanding 25-point lead over Democratic challenger Tony Sanchez in a matchup sharply divided along racial lines, according to a new poll of likely voters. With the election five months away, Mr. Perry is ahead in every part of the state, including Mr. Sanchez's purported stronghold along the border and in South Texas. Those surveyed also had a higher favorable impression of Mr. Perry than Mr. Sanchez,...