The Real Wendy Davis

Chuck Ross
10:36 AM 01/20/2014

Intriguing new details reported by The Dallas Morning News show that Texas Democratic gubernatorial candidate and liberal hero Wendy Davis has consistently twisted the truth about her own life story.

Davis, a state senator, became famous nationwide after she blocked a bill seeking to place limitations on abortion with an 11-hour filibuster featuring her tale of perseverance and against-all-odds grit.

According to the Davis legend – as exemplified by Davis in her campaign video “A Texas Story” – the state senator was married, had a child, and divorced all by the time she was 19.

She lived in a trailer and worked to raise her daughter and make her way through college, eventually landing in the hallowed halls of Harvard. From there, Davis – born Wendy Russell – became an attorney, a Fort Worth city councilwoman, and a state senator known for confronting the “old-boys network” of Texas state politics.

But Davis had a bit more help than she lets on in filibusters and stump speeches, and some of the details of her life as a young single mother are murky.

Davis admitted to being less than precise about the details of her life story in an interview with The Dallas Morning News.

“My language should be tighter,” she told the Morning News’ Wayne Slater, while acknowledging that the timeline and details of her life story have had errors. “I’m learning about using broader, looser language. I need to be more focused on the detail.”

If the details of the Dallas Morning News report are accurate, Davis’s errors range from timeline inconsistencies to contextual omissions.

Davis actually divorced her first husband, Frank Underwood, at the age of 21, not 19, according to The Dallas Morning News. She also only lived in a trailer for a few months before moving in with her mother and then into an apartment of her own.

At some point, Davis began attending community college. After that, while Davis was working as a waitress at a theater owned by her father, she met and began dating Jeff Davis, a lawyer and former Fort Worth city councilman 13 years her senior.

It was the benefits arising from that marriage that Davis has glossed over during her autobiographical tellings.

Wendy Davis’s studies at Texas Christian University were initially financed through funds from a scholarship and Pell grants, according to The Dallas Morning News. But Jeff Davis paid for the final two years of her education at the school.

The couple married and Wendy Davis was accepted into Harvard Law School. To pay for his wife’s education, Jeff Davis dipped into his 401(k) and took out a loan, the Morning News reported.

Jeff Davis told The Dallas Morning News that his wife, by then a Fort Worth city councilwoman, filed for divorce the day after he made the final payment on her Harvard school loans.

“It was ironic,” he told The Dallas Morning News. “I made the last payment, and it was the next day she left.”



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So she not only is in favor of sub-standard conditions for abortion clinics, but she also used her ex to pay for her education. Sounds like a wonderful person for political office.

 

And gave up parental custodial rights to be a politician. This is the poster girl for the Left.

 

bump.

 

Just being nice and letting you know here....this crap will help the GOP about as much as Sen Warren lying about native american heritage did in 2012....

(hint: that didn't go well)

 

Im sure you are probably right on that. but it hardly speaks well for her or the people who elect someone who i willing to lie about such petty details to offices of high trust.

However, it might have a different effect for Wendy in Texas than Ms Warren in Mass simply because Texans don't put up with Nonsense like this.

 

Being a former single mom who took advantage of her second husband and who left her kids to play politics might play well on the blue coasts, but it won't help her in Texas. This on top of the fact she needs all the help she can considering she is ardent pro abortion democrat in Texas.

 

The Left loved it when she filibustered but not so much, when Rand Paul and Ted Cruz did.

 

People don't care if you say you got divorced at 19 when it was really at 21. Nor do they care if you said your mom had a 6th grade education when it was a 9th grade education.

It makes the GOP look bad if anything...it's like they're complaining that she didn't suffer "enough" or something. That's honestly how people are going to take it...they're going to see it as a desperate attempt to sabotage her because there isn't anything else. That's exactly how the native American thing was taken in Mass.

 

The left laughed when Ted Cruz talked for 20-some hours....and filibustered nothing.