Wendy Davis talks sexual assault, education funding at Lubbock campaign stop

[TexasTowelie]

They weren’t pink tennis shoes, but Wendy Davis’ footwear held particular importance Monday night.

Texas Democratic gubernatorial candidate Davis spoke to Lubbock supporters at a phone bank Monday. Her shoes, she said, were the same ones she wore to filibuster $5.5 billion in cuts to Texas public schools in 2011.

“Our children suffered as a consequence of that,” she said.

Davis focused most of her speech on her work addressing problems of sexual assault, criticizing her opponent, Attorney General Greg Abbott, for “a disturbing pattern of siding with corporations over victims of rape and sexual assault.”

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[TexasTowelie]

1. Davis also spoke of Medicaid funding

and that with Texas turning down Medicaid funding provided in the ACA that Texans were subsidizing health care for those in California and New York.