POLITICO – Perhaps the slogan of the Wendy Davis campaign should be that behind every successful woman is a good man.
It turns out that the Texas gubernatorial candidate has been telling a version of her life story that glosses over key facts, an article by Wayne Slater in the Dallas Morning News reveals—especially the contribution to her success made by her second husband, Jeff Davis.
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Wendy Davis, of course, needs no introduction. Her filibuster of a bill to ban abortion in Texas after 20 weeks—a measure that would be uncontroversial even in Belgium or France—made her an instant star for progressives and much of the media. For them, few things are as stirring as a lonely, principled stand in favor of near-infanticide.
Her personal story was also catnip for TV producers and profile writers, who were thrilled by the trajectory of the former teen mom who lived in a mobile home and eventually earned a law degree at Harvard on the way to becoming the nation’s foremost defender of late-term abortion. It’s as if the protagonist of a Horatio Alger novel pulled himself up by his bootstraps and onto the board of Planned Parenthood. What’s not to like?
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