Wendy Davis is the likely Democrat candidate for governor of Texas in 2014. She is also the state senator who garnered big coverage in the liberal media by stalling but not preventing the new Texas law that required physicians performing abortions to maintain certain levels of cleanliness in their offices and to have an affiliation with a hospital located within 30 miles of the office where patients could be transferred in the event of emergency complications during procedures. After all the coverage, Davis announced her gubernatorial bid. So far, most of her campaign has focused on her life story. She claims to have been a divorced teenage mother who eventually worked her way through college and ultimately Harvard Law School. Now the key parts of the story are turning out to be lies.
Perhaps the biggest problem with Davis' story is that she left out most discussion of her second husband. He was a Dallas lawyer, 13 years her senior, who married her and then paid for her completion of college and attendance at law school. The husband was left caring for the children in Dallas while Wendy Davis was at law school in Massachusetts. The husband worked at his job, cashed in his retirement savings and took out major loans while Wendy Davis lived at Harvard and did no work. Within a week of the husband paying off the last of Wendy's law school expenses, she filed for divorce. Wendy even left behind the child that she bore for her husband as well as the child that she had with her first husband. Imagine this supposedly wonderful woman leaving her child with her first husband in the permanent custody of the second husband.
Wendy Davis now does not admit that she lied. She just says that she has to be sharper in talking about the details. But she lied. She did not struggle to work her way through law school. She married a well off older man and stayed with him until he made the last payment. She seems more like a gold-digging schemer and less like a feminist icon than the liberal media is willing to admit.
Fortunately, Davis is running in Texas. While she had very little chance of victory as a liberal in that state, she should have no chance at all running as an obvious liar. Indeed, it has been interesting to watch Davis try yesterday to blame her troubles on her Republican opponent. That kind of stuff may work in Washington or Massachusetts, by it just won't fly in Texas.
My guess is that in not too long Davis will pull out of the race for governor. If not, she is going to lose big, and that is no lie.
Perhaps the biggest problem with Davis' story is that she left out most discussion of her second husband. He was a Dallas lawyer, 13 years her senior, who married her and then paid for her completion of college and attendance at law school. The husband was left caring for the children in Dallas while Wendy Davis was at law school in Massachusetts. The husband worked at his job, cashed in his retirement savings and took out major loans while Wendy Davis lived at Harvard and did no work. Within a week of the husband paying off the last of Wendy's law school expenses, she filed for divorce. Wendy even left behind the child that she bore for her husband as well as the child that she had with her first husband. Imagine this supposedly wonderful woman leaving her child with her first husband in the permanent custody of the second husband.
Wendy Davis now does not admit that she lied. She just says that she has to be sharper in talking about the details. But she lied. She did not struggle to work her way through law school. She married a well off older man and stayed with him until he made the last payment. She seems more like a gold-digging schemer and less like a feminist icon than the liberal media is willing to admit.
Fortunately, Davis is running in Texas. While she had very little chance of victory as a liberal in that state, she should have no chance at all running as an obvious liar. Indeed, it has been interesting to watch Davis try yesterday to blame her troubles on her Republican opponent. That kind of stuff may work in Washington or Massachusetts, by it just won't fly in Texas.
My guess is that in not too long Davis will pull out of the race for governor. If not, she is going to lose big, and that is no lie.
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