The thing is....this is a ethics violation. The State Bar Association will be hard-pressed to just allow it and pretend it didn’t happen. You could screw up on one year and come back the next to correct matters....which the Bar guys could overlook. But this was more than that.
I’d say Wendy finishes the race....maybe with forty percent of the vote at this point. The independent voters are finished with her. She ought to concentrate on some mayor’s job in Texas, and just settle for that. The idea of anything bigger over the next decade? Only if she gets appointed as some ambassador or White House Czar. Imagine explaining the ethics violations to some Senate panel for a cabinet post?
Run for mayor? She can’t even run her own home. She should run a laundromat and start with her own dirty laundry for practice of skills.