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As Wendy Davis touts life story in race for governor, key facts blurred
The Dallas Morning News ^ | 1-19-14 | Wayne Slater

Posted on 01/19/2014 5:58:08 AM PST by slumber1

FORT WORTH — Wendy Davis has made her personal story of struggle and success a centerpiece of her campaign to become the first Democrat elected governor of Texas in almost a quarter-century.

While her state Senate filibuster last year captured national attention, it is her biography — a divorced teenage mother living in a trailer who earned her way to Harvard and political achievement — that her team is using to attract voters and boost fundraising.

The basic elements of the narrative are true, but the full story of Davis’ life is more complicated, as often happens when public figures aim to define themselves. In the shorthand version that has developed, some facts have been blurred.

(Excerpt) Read more at dallasnews.com ...


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Front Page News; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; US: Texas
KEYWORDS: democrat; election; governor; texas; texas2014; tx2014; wendydavis
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To: slumber1
The basic elements of the narrative are true, but the full story of Davis’ life is more complicated, as often happens when public figures aim to RE-define themselves.

Say...

Is that rain I feel on my back?



81 posted on 01/22/2014 3:57:38 AM PST by Elsie (Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
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To: slumber1
The basic elements of the narrative are true, but the full story of Davis’ life is more complicated, as often happens when public figures aim to RE-define themselves.

Say...

Is that rain I feel on my back?



82 posted on 01/22/2014 4:02:55 AM PST by Elsie (Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
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To: Elsie
Is that rain I feel on my back?

Maybe, but I also think I see some smoke in the general area of your butt.

83 posted on 01/22/2014 4:07:43 AM PST by central_va (I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn.)
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To: Theodore R.
There are Hispanic counties in south Texas that vote routinely 75 percent Democrat, and Republicans don’t even contest county offices.

The sickness has been diagnosed.

Will anyone swallow the medicine?



 

 

2 Chronicles 7:14

If my people, who are called by my name,
shall humble themselves,
and pray, and seek my face,
and turn from their wicked ways; ,

then will I hear from heaven,
and will forgive their sin,
and will heal their land.

84 posted on 01/22/2014 4:08:08 AM PST by Elsie (Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
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To: freedom462

The infiltration from the DNC is great. Locals can feel defeated against Davis. However, Greg Abbott should prove that he is a strong force to be reckoned with. In a debate, he should annihilate her.


85 posted on 01/23/2014 7:17:11 AM PST by patriotsoul
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To: miserare
Texans do not like that sort of woman.

Not necessarily; have you heard of Ann Willis Richards?

86 posted on 01/23/2014 7:37:48 AM PST by Theodore R. (TX Republicans can't wait until March 4 to nominate Cornball and George P.!)
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To: Theodore R.

Oh, yes...the Mouth of the South.

Is she still alive?


87 posted on 01/23/2014 4:35:39 PM PST by miserare (2014--The Year We Fight Back!)
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To: miserare

AWR died in 2006 and remains are in the Texas State Cemetery not really that far from John B. Connally, Jr.


88 posted on 01/23/2014 5:48:08 PM PST by Theodore R. (TX Republicans can't wait until March 4 to nominate Cornball and George P.!)
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