Wendy Davis launches bid for U.S. House
Former Democratic gubernatorial candidate Wendy Davis announced Monday she is running for the U.S. House in a GOP-held district targeted for takeover by national Democratic leaders.
She’s the first big-name Democrat to launch a candidacy in the 21st Congressional District, represented by first-term Republican Chip Roy of Hays County.
“I’m running for Congress because people’s voices are still being silenced,” Davis said in a more than 4-minute video announcing her candidacy. “I’m running for our children and grandchildren so they can live and love and fight for change themselves.”
Davis, a former state senator from Fort Worth who garnered national attention in 2013 after her filibuster of an anti-abortion bill, first said in April that she was considering running. On Thursday, a congressional aide working for U.S. Rep. Filemon Vela, D-Brownsville, told the American-Statesman that Davis had told Vela that she was running.
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