Thursday, January 23, 2014

PIC - What About Wendy Davis ?

Greetings:

The title above is all about being Politically-Incorrect.  For those who do not follow Texas Politics, Wendy Davis is a Texas State Senator from the Fort Worth area of the country.  She made national headlines last year by filibustering for 11 hours (while wearing a catheter connected to a plastic bag on her leg so she would not have to stop to go to the restroom)  in protest to the Senate Bill 5 that dealt with health-care restrictions on abortion clinics.  This bill would have greatly restricted poorly designed and maintained clinics by forcing clinic doctors to be within 35 miles of an accredited hospital and the doctor would have to be on the approved doctors list at that hospital.  Wendy was successful at blocking the bill for that term of the Senate because time ran out at midnight.  She finished up about 9:00 p.m. and the left-wing, liberal gallery of her supporters kept cheering and disrupting the Senate until after midnight.  But Governor Perry called a special session within a week and the bill not only passed a few weeks later but but the bill was upheld by the Supreme Court of the USA when it was challenged later.

Wendy became an instant national celebrity and appeared within the week on several national talk shows as an abortions champion.  Riding that national recognition for her "Mr. Smith Goes To Washington" stunt, she decided that if the Democratic Party of Texas was to ever regain a foothold that they should do it with her.  So Wendy now has switched allegiances from Republican (which she supported for years) and is now a Democrat.  Personally, this is much like deserting her husband and two children so that she could be a full-time lawyer and politician.  If a man did this, the press would be all over him for moral turpitude  - and, indeed, even some of the more liberal press are taking her to task about her "little white lies" in her early campaigning days a few weeks ago.

Little White Lies:
  • “After I graduated I got married and divorced, and by the time I was 19 I was a single parent and I was living in a mobile home in southeast Fort Worth, and I was destined to live the life that I watched my mother live,"  
  • Actually, she got a divorce when she was 21.
  • She only lived in her parent's mobile home for a few months while she got a divorce from her first husband and father of her daughter conceived out of wedlock at 18.
  • While married to her first husband, Frank Underwood, she dated and later married Jeff Davis, a local attorney that she had met while working as a waitress at night at her father's theater and supper club.
  • Jeff Davis cashed in his 401(k) retirement to pay for her to finish at a community college as a para-legal and then go on to TCU and Harvard.  He also took out loans to finance her education, something on which she rarely comments.
  • She raised her two daughters.  Actually, while attending TCU and Harvard, her mother and her husband kept the two daughters so the Wendy could devote full-time to her education.  When they divorced in 2005, Jeff Davis gained full custody of the two girls so that Wendy could be free to pursue her career and job.  (Shades of Jimmy Johnson, former coach of the Dallas Cowboys, who did the same thing to his spouse!)  But, Wendy is paying Jeff $1,200 per month for child support.
  •  Under terms of the divorce from her first husband, he got a boat, the mobile home and the responsibility for the mortgage on it. She got a 3-year-old Pontiac Grand Prix, a 1972 Firebird and a 1967 Chevy pickup. Davis was 21.  Quite a haul for someone without any hopes of going anywhere or doing anything with her life.
OK, that's just the surface of Wendy Davis.  And, no, I am NOT a Republican nor a member of the TEA Party.  I am not a turn-coat Democrat either.  I am an Independent Texan who just does not care for lying politicians.  (Is there any other kind today?)  So, just to be politically incorrect around most of my liberal friends who all gah-gah about Wendy, "Learn to READ before you vote!"  Or at least find a friend who can read the newspapers to you.

Oh, yes; the Republican candidate running against her is not much better from my viewpoint.  We have not had a decent candidate for any political office in over 50 years.  Texas politics are a lot like politics anywhere else, only down here at least they pretend to be "Good Guys" who are looking out for your benefit.  But they are just like all of the politicians in CA, NY, NJ and Chicago; crooked as a dog's hind leg.  When they die, usually they are so crooked that you have to screw them into the ground like a carnival tent-peg.

Shalom
Yaakov

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