Ha Ha! Greg Abbott forced to Pay Wendy Davis' Legal Fees

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By Seth Millstein

The state of Texas was ordered Thursday to reimburse Wendy Davis for over $200,000 in legal fees that she spent fending off a Republican attempt to carve up her legislative district (and, in the process, disenfranchise minorities in the area). The kicker is that the one responsible for reimbursing her is Attorney General Greg Abbott, who she’s currently running against in the governor’s race.

Davis and the League of United Latin American Citizens sued Texas Republicans in 2011 for trying to enact a redistricting plan that, they claimed, “was draw with the purpose, and has the effect, of minimizing and reducing the strength of minority populations in the Tarrant and Dallas counties area of North Texas.” They won, and Davis was permitted to seek reimbursement for what her campaign had spent on legal fees, in the neighborhood of $600,000. Abbott fought the ruling that Davis was eligible to be reimbursed, because of course he did, but lost that fight as well, and was ordered by a federal court Thursday to fork over $267,000 to Davis’s campaign.

This is more or less unrelated to the governor’s race, in which Davis and Abbott are facing off to fill Rick Perry’s seat as Perry, inexplicably, contemplates another run for president. While Davis faces an uphill battle against Abbott later this year, she effectively just received a $200,000 campaign contribution from her opponent, which has to be somewhat satisfying.

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http://www.bustle.com/articles/12306-wendy-daviss-foe-greg-abbott-ordered-to-pay-her-legal-fees

[spanone]

1. k&r...

[hobbit709]

2. Love it.

[ananda]

3. Highlight of my day!

Lol

[Stuart G]

4. Terrific News..this makes me happy..nt

[JNelson6563]

5. Go girl!

[sarge43]

6. Schadenfreude

with a heaping side of fuck you.

[grantcart]

9. and a twist of karma.

[sarge43]

12. Lightly sauted in karma. A dish best served chilled. n/t

[Demeter]

7. Turning Texas Blue would be a major blow to the theological fascists.

Go Girl, Go!

[marble falls]

8. "General" Abbott (as he insists is his correct title) is an arrogant piece of work.

This just has to grind at him. I'll be voting for Wendy.

[riqster]

19. I remember when Richard Cordray was Ohio's AG

He HATED being called "general".

And that is in fact the proper title for an AG. But it says a lot about people, how they react to aggrandizing tags.

[Dustlawyer]

10. Too bad the Courts didn't feel this way when Tom Delay pushed Texas to re-district in

the middle of the decade b/w census periods. This is what has Texas still red to this day!
Congrats Wendy, kick that S.O.B.'s ass!

[LadyHawkAZ]

11. LOL!!

How lovely.

[Cha]

13. Thank Goodness! Yay Senator

Wendy Davis!

[cinnabonbon]

14. Excellent!

[Coyotl]

15. Go Wendy!

[another_liberal]

16. I am loving it!

I do believe Wendy Davis is going to be the next governor of Texas.

[wrenken]

23. I really wish...

But you just do not understand how ignorant or stupid, take what you will, Texas voters remain. I want her to win, I have donated, and am thinking of volunteering. We need change here, but I have talked to people and it is scary. These people do not care if a Republican is corrupt, it is better than a "Demicrat". I don't mean to be so negative, but I have lived here for a long time, and those assholes in the TX legislature are doing everything they can to dismiss votes they do not like.

[another_liberal]

24. Voter suppression may work short-term . . .

In the long run, though, it is suicidal for a political party to count on disenfranchising voters as a strategy for winning elections.

[Ikonoklast]

27. The quickest way to get a voter enraged is to tell them they cannot vote.

It's also an excellent way to get a potential voter who never voted in their lives once before to sign up to vote.

Tell people what you are not going to allow them to do as a citizen, and they will do their damndest to do the opposite just to spite you.

[brett_jv]

17. Wow, this is a f***ing AWESOME story to wake up to ...

Love, love, love it!!!

Go Wendy!!!

[progressoid]

18. Outfuckingstanding.

[Gothmog]

20. Abbott is appealing this ruling

This will be yet another waste of taxpayer funds

[DamnYankeeInHouston]

21. Way to go, Wendy.

[sheshe2]

22. Kick!

[NCLefty]

25. I can't wait to vote against that guy.

[Major Nikon]

26. In the immortal words of Nelson...