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LetMyPeopleVote
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LetMyPeopleVote's Journal
October 1, 2014
I was very pleased with Wendy Davis' performance last night. She held Abbott's accountable for a great deal. Her comeback on Abbott's attempt to turn the Texas Enterprise Fund attack around was perfect. Abbott did not handle being questioned by the moderators well.
I was pleased with the debate.
At Last Gubernatorial Debate, Davis Outperforms Abbott
This is one of the better accounts of last night's debate between Abbott and Wendy Davis http://www.texasobserver.org/last-gubernatorial-debate-davis-outperforms-abbott/
If you only have time to watch one of the three major debates this election cycle, you should make it tonights debate in Dallas. If youre pulling for Wendy Davis to do well, youll enjoy it. But its worth watching because something strange happened tonight: Like the sky opening up after a monsoon season of turgid talking points, Wendy Davis and Greg Abbott actually took each other on tonight, to a certain extent. And against all odds, something approximating a discussion about policy took place. Call it the Miracle at KERA....
But things got better. Davis and Abbott grappled with each other on two wide frontsthe first, over ethics issues. Davis was asked about her legal work, which she rebuffed and went through the list of accumulated attack lines about Abbotts tenure as AG. (She gave a stronger refutation of the conflict-of-interest charge after she was pressed.)
But when Abbott was asked (at about 19:45 in the video) about accusations his office helped hide incompetence and mismanagement with Gov. Perrys Texas Enterprise Fund, he didnt handle it very well. He offered that the recently issued audit of the fund didnt single him out for criticism. From the beginning of my campaign Ive been questioning this very fund, he said. (Perhaps, one suspects, because he knew how badly it was being run.) He tried to turn the question back to Davis, but she beat it back forcefully. As to the question of why Abbotts office helped hide non-existing TEF applications from reporters, he couldnt really answer.
I was very pleased with Wendy Davis' performance last night. She held Abbott's accountable for a great deal. Her comeback on Abbott's attempt to turn the Texas Enterprise Fund attack around was perfect. Abbott did not handle being questioned by the moderators well.
I was pleased with the debate.
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