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Showing Original Post only (View all)Want to see what happens when a DEMOCRAT actually STANDS UP and FIGHTS the Republicans? [View all]
[font size=4]"Filibuster fame nets Wendy Davis political donation windfall"[/font]
DALLAS [font size=3]Texas state Senator Wendy Davis has reaped nearly $1 million in political donations[/font] since she staged a nearly 11-hour filibuster that ultimately failed to stop the Texas legislature approving stringent new restrictions on abortion in the state, her office said on Monday.
Davis, 50, who is running for re-election to the state Senate in 2014 and has been called upon by some fellow Democrats to run for Texas governor, raised $933,000 in two weeks and now has more than $1 million in her campaign coffers, her campaign said.
With her filibuster last month, Davis drew national attention to the debate over a Texas bill that would ban most abortions after 20 weeks of pregnancy, impose strict new health and safety standards on abortion clinics and limit use of the RU-486 drug to end pregnancies.
[font size=1]Photo Mike Stone / Reuters file[/font]
http://usnews.nbcnews.com/_news/2013/07/15/19489873-filibuster-fame-nets-wendy-davis-political-donation-windfall?lite
Davis, 50, who is running for re-election to the state Senate in 2014 and has been called upon by some fellow Democrats to run for Texas governor, raised $933,000 in two weeks and now has more than $1 million in her campaign coffers, her campaign said.
With her filibuster last month, Davis drew national attention to the debate over a Texas bill that would ban most abortions after 20 weeks of pregnancy, impose strict new health and safety standards on abortion clinics and limit use of the RU-486 drug to end pregnancies.
[font size=1]Photo Mike Stone / Reuters file[/font]
http://usnews.nbcnews.com/_news/2013/07/15/19489873-filibuster-fame-nets-wendy-davis-political-donation-windfall?lite
That is a [font size=3]COOL MILLION $DOLLARS$[/font] from grateful, HUNGRY Democrats for simply [font size=3]Doing Her JOB![/font]
Thank YOU Texas State Senator Wendy Davis
for reminding us HOW it is DONE!
Its been so long that we forget what that looks like.
You will know them by their [font size=3]WORKS.[/font]
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bvar22
Aug 2013
OP
Agreed. Whoever was really responsible has been on a run for domination every since.
rwsanders
Aug 2013
#9
Haven't they heard? Money = Free Speech. Just ask turd blossom and the Kock brothers.
King_Klonopin
Aug 2013
#37
Meanwhile back at the Ranch the Koch brothers donate another 100 mil to her toothless opponent
Heather MC
Aug 2013
#17
"That is a COOL MILLION $DOLLARS$ from grateful, HUNGRY Democrats for simply Doing Her JOB!"
Stinky The Clown
Aug 2013
#28
Well, you're among MANY friends here. Some of us rather cantakerous at times... LOL!
calimary
Aug 2013
#53
Want to see what happens when a DEMOCRAT actually STANDS UP and FIGHTS the Republicans?
blkmusclmachine
Aug 2013
#44