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 ...
There is nothing arrogant in not wanting a simple-minded liberal elected to any public office.
Our chances of winning are inversely proportional to the amount of election fraud the Demonic-rats manage to employ.
That is the ONLY reason that Cuccinelli lost.
There’s no truth in the personal or political life of Dems!
There is nothing arrogant in not wanting a simple-minded liberal elected to any public office.
I agree. What I mean by arrogant is because we ignore the candidate and just think they will never make it.
Naps was not saying it was arrogant not to want her elected, but that we can get a little bit on the hubristic side by knowing that we’re right and she’s a little sneaky, lying, delusional lefty who was propelled to prominence by the media because of her support for their sacred cause, unlimited abortion. So we can just shrug and write her off.
But if we just assume that nobody would ever vote for Wendy Davis and she doesn’t have a chance because she is a transparent liar and demagogue, we’re deluding ourselves. After all, a majority of the country voted for a transparent liar and demagogue...twice.
Jeff Davis said that was right around the time the final payment on their Harvard Law School loan was due. “It was ironic,” he said. “I made the last payment, and it was the next day she left.”
Wendy Davis said that as a lawyer, she contributed too.
“I was a vibrant part of contributing to our family finances from the time I graduated to the time we separated in 2003,” she said. “The idea that suddenly there was this instantaneous departure after Jeff had partnered so beautifully with me in putting me through school is just absurd.”
In his initial divorce filing, Jeff Davis said the marriage had failed, citing adultery on her part and conflicts that the couple could not overcome. The final court decree makes no mention of infidelity, granting the divorce solely “on the ground of insupportability.”
lol here is her excuse
“My language should be tighter,” she said. “I’m learning about using broader, looser language. I need to be more focused on the detail.”
Another blood sucking tick who thinks her purpose in life is to force others to do as she says, not as she does.
IIFC, didn’t Patty Murray first run as a “welfare mom in tennis shoes” or some such nonsense...how’s she doing, eh?
whoopsie, my bad..IIFC = IIRC
That happens all the time. It's more difficult to prove adultery, so those claims are dropped at trial; the case then proceeds on simpler grounds because both sides want to get divorced.
No, but it's arrogance in believing she has no chance. It's arrogance in thinking that Texas is so solidly crimson-red that they'd never elect someone like Wendy Davis as Governor.
Austin has always been a liberal enclave but now Houston and San Antonio have turned blue as well. There's profound demographic changes happening all across the country and Texas is no exception. You've got a growing Hispanic population, growing urbanization and added to this are a lot of recent out-of-staters who've come to Texas for job opportunities and brought their liberal voting habits with them.
Democrats now believe that Texas is turning purple, they might be right, and they're going to dump millions of $$$ into this race forcing Republicans to put up a fight.
Perry beat his opponent by 12% in 2010, a landslide year for the GOP. The numbers are definitely shifting in the Democrats' favor.
“A lot of what she says is true.” heh
Her whole campaign is built on emotional hype over a bill that the media touted as a ban on some abortions after 20 weeks.
The GOPe politicians pushed the bill to hustle their conservative base.
The so called 20 week ban has a clause nullifying itself
in the case of an “undue burden” on a “pregnant woman” or any “group of pregnant women”. The law says “the application of the statute to those women shall be severed from the remaining applications of the statute....”
The only thing the Republican Establishment did was to regulate abortion clinics so the small time operators from the “back alley” days of abortion were shut down leaving the big time operators like Planned Parenthood as an “abortion monopoly”.
The abortion law controversy is a lot of hype so that the GOPe and Democrat political machines can raise a lot of money and support from people who feel strongly about abortion on both sides.
She’s the type who uses people to get what she wants. No wonder she’s so popular among liberals.
That's not "blurring" facts, as Dallas News characterizes it. That's lying under oath in an effort to increase the emotional impact of her testimony.
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