Posted on 01/20/2014 4:12:57 PM PST by servo1969
But he didn’t listen to the campaign, and the result is the implosion of Wendy Davis’ personal and political narratives
Wendy Davis, the progressive movement’s Texas darling because of her pro-late term abortion filibuster, is withering under revelations that much of her narrative of struggle and financial hardship is misleading at best, fabricated at worst.
The wagons are being circled around her with claims of a War on Women and sexism … all because the truth has come out via an interview with her husband by the Dallas Morning News, and other investigation.
There even are accusations by Texas Democratic political operatives that the campaign of her opponent, Gregg Abbott, has been peddling the story. So far, however, the facts revealed by the Dallas Morning News have not been contested.
In fact, bits of the story were revealed in a Houston Chronicle article on September 2, 2013, but no one paid attention because the Chronicle story was not as detailed and Davis would not announce her run for the Governorship for another month. There was no campaign narrative yet developed, as there is now and as to which the Dallas Morning News article is devastating.
Among other things, the Chronicle story revealed that Davis’ ex-husband cashed in his 401k to pay for her law school, and also that a loan was taken out and that she left just after the final payment:
Their daughter, Dru, was born while Wendy was at TCU. After graduation, Wendy was accepted to Harvard Law School, and Jeff said he cashed in a 401(k) to help pay the cost…..In November 2003 – the same month a Harvard loan was paid off – she left, Jeff said. “I made the last payment and laughed,” he said.
Wendy stressed that they used their family resources to make her education possible because they thought it was “beneficial for our family.”
“We took out a loan in that third year, and we paid it off as a family,” she said, adding that she made “a nice income” as a lawyer and helped build their title company. Jeff describes it as his company but said she got half when it was sold during the divorce.
Here’s the key thing.
The Wendy Davis campaign has been trying to keep Jeff Davis from speaking to the press for months. According to the Houston Chronicle article (emphasis added):
“They’ve asked me not to talk to reporters,” Jeff said. He is anyway, because: “If she runs, the scrutiny on her will be extraordinary. She needs to deal with it in a constructive way. She needs to take control of the message. … My goal in all this, I think, is just try and protect the kids as much as I can.”
Now we know why. Wendy Davis’ personal and campaign narratives don’t hold up to scrutiny.
Davis’ ex-husband saw it coming. And so did the Davis campaign, which tried to keep him quiet.
Only the progressive movement and the big money donors didn’t have a clue as to what they were buying into.
At least she was better looking than Hillary. Now she’s a BETTER looking Hillary.
“They’ve asked me not to talk to reporters”...
‘They’ being the media...
just like democRATS use the taxpayers
Abortion Barbie is a fraud. Do tell.
So exactly how long would the candidacy of a man last if it was known he walked out on his wife, who paid his way through law school, AND his own children?
"Office holder" must not include the legislature or judges?
That’s exactly what mu hubby said… he got what he came for…pardon the pun!
I said State Office Holder. Those are offices voted on by the whole of Texas, not parts of Texas.
Well, Dallas and Houston and Austin —especially Austin—have plenty.
Ugly feet, shoes probably covering up talons...
Anyway, the hardcore libs don’t care. She used her husband to pay her way and keep the kids while she skanked around, so to feminists, she’s a super hero. The abortion thing is just icing on the cake.
All I know is the gov race is going to be a mud slinging, bare knuckled, knock down drag out fight.
Reps best be ready to vote or this creature will become our next gov.
To #12: “She used him like a sugar daddy”>
Oh, you mean like a “sucker”?
A mother that is not fit to care for her children is the answer, "been there and done that and I was the man not the mother"
My eldest son's mom once dropped him and his suitcase off in my office, straight out of the blue. In her defense, she told me that she thought she was failing him, and that she knew I was the better parent.
Judge Lawrence Meyers is in a state wide office and a Democrat, no? Although I will grant you that Meyers didn’t get there by being a Democrat and may have just effectively resigned from the bench come 2016.
I dunno Texas law but that law degree could be considered communal property. He should sue her a$$.
Lawrence E. Meyers, statewide Court of Criminal Appeal judge, recently switched from “R” to “D”. So there is one “D”. And Davis expects to be the next; she understands how easily fooled people are.
Bovine scatology. I lived there over 20 years, and my lack of Spanish was never a problem.
When I began dating my wife, I was looking forward to improving my Spanish from her family. Never happened: her parents spoke Spanish amongst their generation, but spoke English to their kids and grandkids.
I loved my time in El Paso...two of my three children were born there. Most of my in-laws still live there.
Jeff(erson) Davis.
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