At Last Gubernatorial Debate, Davis Outperforms Abbott

[Gothmog]

This is one of the better accounts of last night's debate between Abbott and Wendy Davis http://www.texasobserver.org/last-gubernatorial-debate-davis-outperforms-abbott/

If you only have time to watch one of the three major debates this election cycle, you should make it tonight’s debate in Dallas. If you’re pulling for Wendy Davis to do well, you’ll enjoy it. But it’s worth watching because something strange happened tonight: Like the sky opening up after a monsoon season of turgid talking points, Wendy Davis and Greg Abbott actually took each other on tonight, to a certain extent. And against all odds, something approximating a discussion about policy took place. Call it the Miracle at KERA....

But things got better. Davis and Abbott grappled with each other on two wide fronts—the first, over ethics issues. Davis was asked about her legal work, which she rebuffed and went through the list of accumulated attack lines about Abbott’s tenure as AG. (She gave a stronger refutation of the conflict-of-interest charge after she was pressed.)

But when Abbott was asked (at about 19:45 in the video) about accusations his office helped hide incompetence and mismanagement with Gov. Perry’s Texas Enterprise Fund, he didn’t handle it very well. He offered that the recently issued audit of the fund didn’t single him out for criticism. “From the beginning of my campaign I’ve been questioning this very fund,” he said. (Perhaps, one suspects, because he knew how badly it was being run.) He tried to turn the question back to Davis, but she beat it back forcefully. As to the question of why Abbott’s office helped hide non-existing TEF applications from reporters, he couldn’t really answer.

I was very pleased with Wendy Davis' performance last night. She held Abbott's accountable for a great deal. Her comeback on Abbott's attempt to turn the Texas Enterprise Fund attack around was perfect. Abbott did not handle being questioned by the moderators well.

I was pleased with the debate.

[Gothmog]

1. Wendy Davis clobbers Greg Abbott in final gubernatorial debate

Here is a more partisan account of the debate (which I agree with) http://egbertowillies.com/2014/10/01/wendy-davis-slams-greg-abbott-debate/

Senator Wendy Davis did not allow Greg Abbott to get away with his attempt at slick answers. She successfully rebuffed and challenged his answers.

When Greg Abbott was asked how he intended to pay for his desire to make the Texas education system number one in the country his answer can be encapsulated with the phrase ‘do more with less’. Wendy Davis used the opportunity to slam Greg Abbott. “Mr. Abbott, you are talking out of two sides of your mouth,” Wendy Davis said. “On the one hand you are fighting to keep our students in overcrowded classrooms, teachers laid off across the state, and school closings in place. And yet you say you want to make Texas number one in education. You cannot accomplish that goal without making the appropriate investment

Greg's answer on the education funding and the ethics issues were really very weak

[Gothmog]

2. FACT CHECK: Greg Abbott’s Attack Against Wendy Davis’ Record Is Completely False

The Burnt Orange Report has a good piece debunking Greg's attempted attack on Wendy's ethics http://www.burntorangereport.com/diary/19138/fact-check-greg-abbotts-attack-wendy-davis-record-completely-false
Basically, the fact that Davis was employed at a title company was not a conflict of interest in that she was on salary and was not an owner of the title company. It is important to push the ethics charges against Greg because he was irked at these charges in the debate

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3. Excellent

[Fred Sanders]

4. Abbot leads in polls among women....what the fuck is in the water in Texas?

[DhhD]

5. What is lacking in the water? Discussion of not allowing an egg to be in the Fallopian tubes.

No egg = No fertilization (in the Fallopian tubes) . Woman receives birth control pills or hormones from and IUD.

No fertilization = Nothing to impregnate the uterus.

Nothing in the uterus = No need for an abortion or abortion inducing drugs.

Please keep in mind another one of Ted Cruz's big lies is that birth control pills cause abortions.

Women either believe Wendy Davis or Ted Cruz's big push on this recently! When did Wendy Davis take on these words/thoughts of Ted Cruz, backdoor Texan from Canada? In coming Ads, hopefully? It is alright for women to talk about this openly in public but not for man to woman. For this occasion, Wendy can actually scold Cruz, publicly, in my opinion. (I believe that Republicans want Cruz scolded anyway over shutting down the government as well as lying to the public.) Warriors against Women have it coming during this campaign in particular.