[Morgana]

Abortion Barbie ping.

[txrefugee]

Go away, you bleach-blong phony. You are an embarrassment to Texas. Go back to Rhode Island where they appreciate your kind.

[TexasCajun]

The Abortion Barbie needs to find herself another Sugar-Daddy and hide in shame.

[Texas resident]

Think of this.

Abortion Barbie is the best the demonrat party can run for governor.

[Slyfox]

About the commercial, Abbott said the Kirby company had no responsibility for who the distributor hired. The distributor was at fault for not doing a background check on the rapist, not the Kirby company.

Wendy Davis actually thinks by falsely pushing one case it will somehow brush her abortion record of support completely out of the way. She is nuts.

Abortion Barbie doing a commercial trying to tie her opponent to a sexual crime is abhorrent.

[Sans-Culotte]

I have seen the Wendy Davis ad. It is running a lot here in the Houston area. I’d like to see Abbott or his supporters address the issues in the ad itself rather than bringing up other issues. I realize that juries often award plaintiffs at the expense of corporations, but it does seem to me that Kirby was remiss in not doing a background check on the rapist; especially if he already had a record as a sexual criminal.

[Sherman Logan]

Kirby certainly has a large number of people willing to spend time typing in their complaints.

http://www.consumeraffairs.com/in_home/kirby.htm

IMO an ethical company would take steps to ensure its “independent distributors” don’t do stuff like this. If they don’t, it looks very much like they approve or at least don’t care.

Some unethical companies use people who are actually employees, but pretends they are subcontractors or independent distributors to avoid paying taxes, dodge complaints, etc. Have been peripherally involved in the past with companies that functioned this way, and they are essentially frauds in being. Have no personal experience as to whether this applies to Kirby.

[JimRed]

Evil can be really stupid. Working for an easily identifiable company that keeps records of where their salespeople are assigned and who they visit, and committing a heinous crime...

[Arrowhead1952]

The salesman was a sexual predator on probation… but the Kirby vacuum cleaner distributor had failed to perform a routine background check on him.

I heard this ad for the first time today. If memory serves me correctly, there was no law to do background checks back then. I thinks Greg Abbott was issuing his ruling on that, not on the actual rape. Did whoopee say it was rape or rape rape?