Posted on 09/22/2014 10:39:20 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
The lone Texas gubernatorial debate took place in the Rio Grande Valley Friday night. Front-runner Attorney General Greg Abbott, the Republican, just had to get through the debate without making any negative news. The pressure was all on Wendy Davis, Democrat state senator trailing by a lot in the polls, to make something — anything positive — happen.
Well, she made something happen. But it wasn’t positive.
Davis attacked Abbott over a school finance lawsuit that’s in appeal.
Abbott responded that as attorney general, he has an obligation to follow the law and keep the suit going.
Davis then went into unleashed mode, and talked over everyone. Her actions are aptly being called a “meltdown” statewide. The moderator felt compelled to remind her of the debate rules.
You can hear in the clip, Davis calling on Abbott to ignore a state law in the matter and “stand up to the legislature.”
That would be the legislature of which Davis is a member, which passed a law concerning when the attorney general may not just settle a case, as Davis wants him to do in this case. That law is S.B. 899, which passed during the 2011 session of the Texas legislature. Davis ought to remember, because she was there. It prohibits the state attorney general from entering into a settlement that costs over $10 million or that “commits the state to a continuing increased expenditure of state funds over subsequent biennia” without the legislature’s approval. The school finance case would clearly cost far more than that.
So Attorney General Abbott, following the law, cannot settle the school finance suit unless the legislature authorizes him to do so. That’s the law. He reminded Davis of her own record on that law.
Namely, that Wendy Davis voted for that very law.
Wendy Davis was clearly very unhappy to have her own record used against her. So she stepped all over the debate rules and ended up advocating that the elected attorney general break the law just to satisfy her.
Wendy Davis violated the debate rules, which isn’t a huge deal, but she did so in pursuit of trying to goad her opponent into breaking a state law — which she voted for and which as a lawyer, Davis knows that the attorney general cannot do.
That is a huge deal. It’s a disqualifying deal.
It’s at this point that Texas writers usually deploy a finishing phrase — that dog won’t hunt, Davis is all hat and no cattle, she’s a gun with no ammo that still manages to misfire — that sort of thing. All of those phrases and a whole lot more fit the Davis run for governor. She’s all hype and no substance. She’s one-dimensional, just a left side who’s never right. But those two minutes showed a deep problem with Wendy Davis as a candidate, a lawyer and a person.
Not only did Wendy Davis meltdown at the mere mention of her own record, showing an intemperate side that would wear thin quickly with daily exposure, she signaled that if she were ever entrusted with executive authority of any kind in state government, she would not hesitate to shred state law and the Constitution if she found them to be in the way of pursuing her leftwing agenda. Davis would form a government unto herself and just ignore precedent, current law, and the people’s representatives in the legislature.
That’s just not how things work. Not now, and hopefully not ever.
Watch the whole embarrassing two minutes by clicking on the link.
You watch, she will get 35-40% of the vote just for being on the Dem ticket. That is the danger of the left. They are not people like you or I who care about right or wrong, fair or unfair, wise or unwise. They only know power and vote for who they believe will give it to them.
You left out a major category: illegal alien in Texas.
Wouldnt that include most of Austin and Houston?
Democrats will applaud. They love tyrants. Anyone who is sane would know better. This person has no business in government or any where else.
Wendy Davis Is The Clear Winner In Tonights Debate With Greg Abbott
Wendy Davis brought her A game to tonights debate with Republican opponent Greg Abbott. Round after round, Davis made clear that shes looking out for Texans while Greg Abbott is defending political insiders.
Wendy Davis Is The Clear Winner In Tonights Debate With Greg Abbott
These crackhead leftists are delusional. Entirely delusional.
See my post #25. You should get a kick out of that.
Her campaign needs to hire canvassers, with (tax-funded) Planned Parenthood money, to go door to door for her.
Other candidates have volunteers, I guess nobody wants to help her for free.
Nothing surprises me any more.
I guess calling for the state to break the laws she helped pass is a game-winner for these crazies.
Elizabeth Warren and Sandra Fluke are stamped from the same mold.
Yeah how long before that gets tossed out as unconstitutional by some sympathetic liberal judge and the ACLU or some federal judge? As soon as Texas gets just blue enough to really come into play you can bet your butt it will happen.
A Democrat who doesn’t believe in following the law-what a shock!
When I read that, my first thought was that that’s SOP for ‘rats. And they will break laws all day long, they will act against their own votes and stances at the blink of an eye, especially if they can oppose the right in doing so, with not an iota of shame at their hypocrisy. The people who vote for them don’t care either, they think it’s cute to watch them slither like snakes through law and their own stated positions and votes.
And the Free Sh*t Army which votes for them, doesn’t care either, as lawlessness is their own SOP.
I don’t believe that even they are that stupid, they are that evil.
Yes, and Warren was elected, and last I looked, Fluke is ahead in California. Rats would vote for Satan, eagerly, to continue the destruction of America.
scary in NY,Calif and other blue states she wins by a landslide
Don’t know if I would classify that as a meltdown, but she comes across as stilted and mechanical.
I person ally know two people who cannot wait to vote for her. Two are professors and one is flaming hypocrite when it comes tax issues.
That sure sounds familiar. But I think they spelled Obama wrong.
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