Official: Wendy Davis running for Texas Governor.

[Eleanors38]

Just now, YNN Channel 8, Austin.

Sign at big Fort Worth rally announces her candidacy. Big rally being held simultaneously in Austin. She will speak momentarily.

[Tarheel_Dem]

1. Go Wendy! And best of luck to you!

[arely staircase]

4. We will be going full tilt on this one

I am a newly minted precinct chair and the state party organization has its shit together like I have never seen. We have a serious GOTV/registration effort underway and will be working it Obama style (house to house).

[Tarheel_Dem]

9. I hope she gets the funding she needs. Sadly for Dems in Red States it's ($$$$). It's hard to....

compete when 1 or 2 people can just keep writing checks, and drown you in media ad crapola. But, if your enthusiasm is as palpable in the "house to house" as it is here, I think you guys can actually pull it off.

Traditionally, getting us motivated for off year elections is like pulling teeth, and I'm sorry, but if you don't vote in the midterms you don't get to whine later. Go Get 'Em!!!!!

[arely staircase]

10. There will be shitpiles of money spent on both sides

that hasn't really been the case here since the 90s. When Abbott (the assumed GOPer) beat Kirk Watson for Attorney General he actually had a TV commercial that started with rocks hitting the wheels of his wheelchair, him picking one up, sadly shaking his head and then bemoaning the fact that Watson liked to "cast stones."

It will be dirty, ugly and mean.

And expensive.

[Tarheel_Dem]

12. I can only imagine just how "diry & mean" it's gonna get. TX is teabag central, and it's spreading.

Hopefully, sanity can win the day. It's probably a case of getting that huge untapped Hispanic electorate fired up in an off year. I honestly think it can be done. I was amazed to see that she was polling only 7 or 8 pts behind the Republican. Not a bad place to start from.

[rdking647]

14. which is why i just sent her my first donation

[arely staircase]

15. +1 brazillian nt

[BobbyBoring]

29. Yeah, she's really behind!

She has a million, but the asshole she's running against has 25 already. It going to be a tough one for her but she has the charisma to pull her through (I hope)!

[Tarheel_Dem]

31. I've witnessed Dems pull even with the big $$$ before. If we want it bad enough. It can be done.

I'm In!!!!

[rdking647]

16. im in austin

my wife and i have been deputized as voter registars in travis county

im retired so i have free time to help GOTV

contact me via PM

[newfie11]

2. I hope she wins

Texas really needs her.

[LeftofObama]

3. Best of luck to her!

[kalli007]

5. She just changed her FB photo with the caption "Wendy Davis for Governor" !!!!!

nt

[B Calm]

6. I saw that last night on TV. She'll need new tennis shoes

if she campaigns state wide. I hope she can do it!

[seabeyond]

7. good. i will have something to do here in amarillo for a handful of months. how fun is this. nt

[arely staircase]

17. if you don't still have me on ignore

[maddezmom]

19. Agreed

this is a great day!

[seabeyond]

22. cant figure out if it is senator or gov. i am seeing two different threads. nt

[maddezmom]

24. It is Governor

https://mobile.twitter.com/TexasMonthly/status/385885307872100352/photo/1?screen_name=TexasMonthly

[seabeyond]

26. thanks. i finally got to the senate thread again and read all the way thru.

saw about half way thru your post and others confirming gov. appreciate.

[seabeyond]

21. lol. i have never, in all the years, used ignored. or trash. or hide. or black list.

or any of the other stuff, whatever it may be. classic is about the only custom i do.

i do not even have issues with you, lol

and



back atcha.

[X_Digger]

8. Woot! n/t

[Downwinder]

11. Our Fall Festival is this weekend. I'll get a "Stand with Wendy" shirt made.

[rdking647]

13. its time to take texas back from the teahaddists

[frog64]

18. go wendy

She will have an uphill fight. Probably carry north Texas, Austin and the other cities, but the real fight will be in East and West Texas. How she runs in the small cities there will determine the race. if she can get, say 45%, in the small cities and towns there, she has a shot. if she loses and gets more than 45% it will give her another shot. Cruz is up in '16.

[seabeyond]

23. amarillo and area is more red than forth worth, just not the population of the area. nt

[Eleanors38]

20. Song in b.g.: "I Won't Back Down." -- Tom Petty

[Warren DeMontague]

25. Awesome!

[libodem]

27. For Real?

I don't like to drag Woo Hoo out for just a tease. WOO HOO That is sofa king cool.. WOOHOO!!!

[Dustlawyer]

28. She could go a long way to turning Texas blue!!!!!

[Politicub]

30. Go Wendy!

[ananda]

32. Hallelujia!

I will campaign for State Senator Davis
and donate money!

[Downwinder]

33. Think it is OK if I mishear the name here?

#t=58

[liberalmuse]

34. For the first time in my life...

I want to move to Texas just so I can vote for her.

[Enthusiast]

35. I sent her a modest donation.

But I will not be sending a donation to some Democrats, like Dick Durbin, that have been deeply disappointing to me. And I'm still pissed of at Keith Ellison for talking up a strike on Syria. You do not go against the will of the people, on things like the TPP and Chained CPI for example.