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TexasTowelie

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Tue Sep 23, 2014, 07:32 PM Sep 2014

Wendy Davis says Greg Abbott bad for Texas women, Van de Putte slams Patrick at Dallas luncheon

State Sen. Wendy Davis on Tuesday unleashed a blistering attack on rival Greg Abbott, saying the GOP nominee for governor supports policies that are hostile toward Texas women.

“The last thing Texas women need in their lives is Greg Abbott,” Davis said during a luncheon sponsored by Annie’s List, a group that supports progressive women candidates.

Davis, the Democratic nominee for governor, said that Abbott does not support equal pay for women, has ruled against rape survivors when he was on the Texas Supreme Court and stood by as a “surrogate” described incest and rape as minor issues for women considering abortion.

“If Greg Abbott spent some time in the place of those women he is so-called guarding …, maybe he’d understand how rape is not a minor issue,” she said.

Read more: http://trailblazersblog.dallasnews.com/2014/09/wendy-davis-says-greg-abbott-bad-for-texas-women-van-de-putte-slams-patrick.html/

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Wendy Davis says Greg Abbott bad for Texas women, Van de Putte slams Patrick at Dallas luncheon (Original Post) TexasTowelie Sep 2014 OP
Keep firing away. I've spent 2 Saturdays making yard signs Eleanors38 Sep 2014 #1
 

Eleanors38

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1. Keep firing away. I've spent 2 Saturdays making yard signs
Tue Sep 23, 2014, 07:46 PM
Sep 2014

for WD. Put some money in, too. Win or lose, draw blood, get respect.

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