Former Texas state Sen. Wendy Davis (D) announced she is challenging Rep. Chip Roy (R-TX), in next year’s election, the Texas Tribune reports.
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When You Harass a State Senator
From the Texas Tribune:
Early in her tenure in the state Senate, Wendy Davis remembers having a conversation at a political event with an older man who happened to be a recently elected, first-term House member. Unaware she was a fellow lawmaker, he reached forward, as though to pat her arm, and instead reached between her arm and breast and cupped her breast.
“It wasn’t an accidental brushing,” the former state senator said. “It was a purposeful touching of my breast.”
Davis told her colleagues in the House about the incident and “as a consequence of that, he had a challenge getting anything passed,” she said.
Finally, he apologized. But Davis, the Fort Worth Democrat who unsuccessfully ran for governor in 2014 after serving in the state senate for six years, acknowledged that her position gave her a form of recourse not available to other women working in the Capitol.
Internal Memos Show Dysfunction in Davis Campaign
Internal memos obtained by the Texas Tribune finds that consultants for Wendy Davis (D) warned her campaign months ago that she “was headed for a humiliating defeat in the Texas governor’s race unless she adopted a more centrist message and put a stop to staggering internal dysfunction.”
From the January memo: “The campaign is in disarray and is in danger of being embarrassed. The level of dysfunction was understandable in July and August, when we had no infrastructure in place — but it doesn’t seem to be getting better.”
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