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The Rude Pundit has never participated in a money bomb, where a bunch of bloggers try to get people to donate to the campaign of a particularly appealing Democratic politician. He's making an exception this time for two reasons. First, because fuck the Texas GOP and the reign of filth and stupidity they have inflicted on Texas and the nation, from their chemical factories to their textbooks. And, second, because State Senator Wendy Davis kicks so much ass that actual asses pucker in fear when she's around.
Davis just announced that she is running for governor of the Lone Star State, and you can bet that the hate machine is gearing up to rip her to shreds. (Note of compassion: the likely Republican nominee will be Texas Attorney General Greg Abbott, who is wheelchair-bound. Electing the first disabled governor in Texas? That's kind of a big deal. Otherwise, though, fuck that guy.)
Why should you give money to Wendy Davis's campaign? The Rude Pundit thinks she's awesome not just because of her genuine filibuster against restrictive anti-choice legislation, which really did stop the bill from passing and forced Gov. Rick Perry to call another special session, but because she also previously filibustered a school funding bill in 2011 that shorted the kids of Texas by $4 billion. She pissed off Rick Perry, who called her a "show horse," which is funny only if you think about the Republican nominee for president in 2012.
(Oh, one more fun fact: Abbott sued the homeowner whose tree fell on him in 1984 and was awarded up to $9 million, which didn't prevent Abbott from attacking lawyers and "excessive" lawsuits. So, seriously, fuck this guy.)
She went from being a single mom in a trailer park to Harvard. She's received a shit-ton of awards for her advocacy for women and children. And anti-abortion nutzoids are losing their fucking minds that she would dare to run for governor.
(Okay, just one more thing: Abbott was addressing the National Right to Life convention in Dallas. He believes that if a women is raped or an incest victim, she should be forced to keep that damn baby. He told the gathered freaks and shut-ins, "It is great to be in a room full of Americans who are fighting for the full arc of human life from conception until natural death." Apparently, "natural death" includes capital punishment, which Abbott loves like a child loves his wubby. So, again, it can't be said enough, fuck this guy.)
Davis is gonna need all the help she can get. Texas is one of the nation's breeding grounds for dumbfucks who want to turn the clock back to 1950something. But it'd be worth it to start to wreck the Republican machine that has dominated Texas for a generation. It'd be worth it to make Rick Perry and Ted Cruz cry. And it'd be worth it because you know that Ann Richards and Molly Ivins would be behind her with all the intensity and cutting wit they could muster.
Let's help her fuck some shit up.
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Zen Democrat
(5,901 posts)northoftheborder
(7,574 posts)calimary
(81,514 posts)Dry-drunk and EXTRA-severe intellectual disability.
Raster
(20,998 posts)disabled Gov, that is.
BrotherIvan
(9,126 posts)Instead, I will take this out of my entertainment budget to support two incredible people -- Elizabeth Warren and Wendy Davis!
Dinner and a movie: Meh
Watching them KICK SOME FUCKING ASS: PRICELESS
rdking647
(5,113 posts)working a phone bank next week to help turn texas blue
BrotherIvan
(9,126 posts)She knows how to bust some idjit heads! And she may be a good example to some of our less spine-endowed pols.
BrotherIvan
(9,126 posts)PeaceNikki
(27,985 posts)austinlw
(54 posts)of the scenario from what I see here in Austin. Greg Abbott has more active brain cells than Rick Perry, but that's not saying much. Even though he's somewhat more intelligent, he's still square in the middle of Texas right-wing Republican ideology. He's just a bit more polished about it.
rdking647
(5,113 posts)Wait Wut
(8,492 posts)I meant to donate on payday and forgot!
DONE!!!
libodem
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Scurrilous
(38,687 posts)jsr
(7,712 posts)GoCubsGo
(32,095 posts)If I had the money, she'd be first on my list...
TBF
(32,106 posts)to like her on Facebook and just help us get her name out there. Even though it's a state race it will help so much to let folks know there's a big race in Texas and Dems are fighting here rather than throwing in the towel. I will be working for a win, but at the very least I want to see a bunch more folks (labor) registered to help out the party in 2016.
GoCubsGo
(32,095 posts)Thanks!
SunSeeker
(51,728 posts)munster69
(107 posts)and I will do the same for Wendy Davis.
My ultra conservative MIL from Houston gave me some money for my birthday. Guess who just got that money?
Dustlawyer
(10,497 posts)aware of his story, the Rude Pundit speaks the truth. He supported the move to prevent accident victims from doing exactly what he did! Classic "I got mine, you get yours" (not)! He was a conceited asshole on the bench, mad with power, enjoying humiliating Plaintiff attorneys. Sick Bastard for sure!
Wendy on the other hand has been beating long odds over and over, and is as genuine as Elizabeth Warren when it comes to her duty to us, the American people! She won her current position in a heavy Republican district and then kept it. We spent 2 wonderful hours talking after a fundraiser and I would have asked her out had I not just moved 6 hours away! C'est la vie!
She could turn Texas blue and thus cement Dems in The White House faster than a speeding bullet if we can move her up?
rdking647
(5,113 posts)if we win texas the teahaddists are done
TBF
(32,106 posts)we can use every cent.