The Briefing Room
General Category => Politics/Government => Topic started by: Rapunzel on September 26, 2013, 08:51:53 pm
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http://trailblazersblog.dallasnews.com/2013/09/wendy-davis-prepares-for-her-october-announcement-for-governor.html/
Wendy Davis will run for governor and plans formal announcement in October
By Wayne Slater
wslater@dallasnews.com
2:59 pm on September 26, 2013 | Permalink
Wendy Davis plans to announce next month that she’s running for governor. The Fort Worth Democrat who made national headlines with an 11-hour filibuster against an abortion-restrictions bill has been soliciting big Democratic donors in recent days for money to mount the uphill campaign. Texas is a solidly red state and the last Democrat elected a governor of Texas was Ann Richards in 1990. Davis plans to make the announcement Oct. 3, according to several influential Democrats who have heard from her. Still, nothing’s official until she announces it.
The money question is a big one for the Davis campaign. She would need $40 million for the race. That’s nearly twice what the last Democratic nominee, former Houston Mayor Bill White, raised in his unsuccessful bid to unseat Rick Perry in 2010. But Davis’ filibuster against a 20-week abortion ban in June catapulted her to national attention and produced a flood money — $1 million – in a matter of weeks. She has been featured at Democratic events on both coasts and pressured by supporters in Texas to run for governor.
The issue, according to Davis associates, is whether she will have enough money to adequately tell her story — both positive things about herself and negative critiques of likely GOP nominee Greg Abbott — on television. TV in Texas is expensive, especially in Dallas and Houston where there are lots of Democratic voters and Republican-leaning suburban women who would be an important voting group. Abbott, who’s been attorney general for a decade and has developed as network of big-dollar Republican donors, reports more than $20 million in the bank. He’s being challenged in the GOP primary by former state Republican Chairman Tom Pauken, who has only reported a fraction of that amount but is being well received by tea party groups and says he has some financial commitments of his own.
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Abortion Barbie ensures that Greg Abbott will be our next Governor. She will not win and it will not even be close.
Most Texans do not support unlimited, abortion (including post birth abortion like she does) nor do we support gun control like she does.
And from some of the pictures the local media has been posting of her, she either has a really good pushup bra, or she got a boob job.
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The only hope Davis has is to catch some sort of wave, which doesn't look likely, given Obamacare's effects and its drag on jobs and the economy.
I just wish Abbott would drop his puzzling lawsuit against the American-US Air merger. That's going to cost him votes in DFW, win or lose.