Wendy davis biography lies

Texas gubernatorial candidate Wendy Davis said Tuesday she is drawing the line with critics who she says are “lying” about her family.
When Texas lawmaker Wendy Davis was filibustering a draconian anti-abortion bill last June, and vaulting to Democratic celebritydom.
The Texas state senator and Democratic candidate for governor responded to accusations that she has misstated details of her experience as a single mother.

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Wendy Davis’s story keeps essential truthiness

In politics, lying is the new sex. Even the lesser sin, exaggeration, is grounds for questions about your suitability to run for office. Americans may be becoming more like the French in tolerating peccadilloes (just ask Representative Mark Sanford of South Carolina or Senator David Vitter of Louisiana about surviving a sex scandal), but get a detail wrong about whether you divorced at 21 or at 19, and woe unto you.

That’s what happened to Wendy Davis over the weekend.

You may know her as the Texas state senator in pink sneakers who delivered an 11-hour filibuster against abortion restrictions in June. The onetime teenage single mother who lived in a trailer park and graduated from Harvard Law School was so well-spoken, impassioned and appealing that she is running for governor less than a year later.

But now she’s being Swift-boated. The story of the courageous, articulate and inspiring lawyer has become the tale of a fabulist who can’t be trusted after the Dallas Morning News raised a swirl of questions about her personal histor

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Davis a Texas success story

Re: “Davis’ story not so simple — Basics are true, key details stay blurred as rise becomes focus,” Sunday news story.

Greg Abbott must be so scared after he found out that Wendy Davis had beat him in fundraising recently that he had to bring out his bullies to try and throw some dirt and spread lies about Wendy. Now his bullies are trying to say that she really didn’t have it all that bad when she was growing up poor, raising a daughter on her own, and putting herself through college. Of course, Greg Abbott knows nothing about how it is to be in this situation or how many thousands of Texas women are living this life right now.

As Wendy has said and is continuing to say, it takes courage, opportunities available through the state for affordable education, and the support of family and friends to lift yourself out of poverty. Wendy is the real deal and a true Texas success story!!

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Meet Wendy Davis, ‘liar’ and ‘bad mom’

When Texas lawmaker Wendy Davis was filibustering a draconian anti-abortion bill last June, and vaulting to Democratic celebritydom, you just knew that conservatives would work themselves up to take her down.

Sure enough, the gubernatorial hopeful’s preferred narrative (Wendy Davis, struggling single mom who became a success story) is now being challenged by her enemies’ version of her life (Wendy Davis, liar, bad mother, and gold-digger who sacrificed her family on the altar of her political ambitions). This kind of sexist sliming was bound to happen; many months ago, Fox News commentator Erick Erickson tried to exploit her good looks by labeling her “Abortion Barbie.”

It’s hard to imagine that Davis could wind up as governor. Texas has been notoriously inhospitable to female candidates; statewide, no woman has won a Texas government race in 20 years. But conservatives are well aware that the state’s increasingly diverse demographics could make Texas more competitive in the n