The Briefing Room
General Category => Politics/Government => Topic started by: ABX on May 01, 2014, 12:54:53 am
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Abortion Barbie all but admits defeat long before a single vote is cast. She has already started looking for blame. .
Wendy Davis dissed her own party for ditching her campaign for Texas Governor.
The feisty Democratic candidate called the head of the Democratic Governors Association “uninformed” and a “Washington, D.C., desk jockey,” after he admitted the party was unlikely to win against Republican Greg Abbott in Texas.
DGA Chairman and Vermont Gov. Peter Shumlin failed to include the Texas gubernatorial race in the group’s list of priority races.
“We’re hopeful in Texas but we all understand that Democrats haven’t won Texas in a long time,” Shumlin told reporters Tuesday, according to The Wall Street Journal.
Recent polls put Abbott ahead of Davis, a State Senator from Dallas who gained national attention for her filibuster in support of abortion rights, 50% to 38%.
Read more: http://www.nydailynews.com/news/politics/texas-democrat-slams-party-gubernatorial-hopes-article-1.1773960#ixzz30Q9yE3X0
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The only reason she was able to run for governor is because DC/NYC abortion supporters thought her standing up for murdering babies was a winning hand in Texas. :silly: