BOOM!1 Leticia VAN DE PUTTE running for LT Gov (Wendy DAVIS, Gov) - GO tx Dem women!1

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The Dem males who were supposedly viable (SANCHEZ, SHARP) turned out to be ineffectual and cronies, so maybe the women will be able to MAKE IT SO!1 Or at least, as a wingnut says, they might at least SCARE the old, white, male wingnuts (too many redundancies in that phrase?!1) .




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http://www.dallasnews.com/news/politics/state-politics/elections/20131113-democrat-leticia-van-de-putte-serves-notice-shell-run-for-lieutenant-governor.ece

[font size=5]Democrat Leticia Van de Putte says she’ll run for lieutenant governor[/font]


http://keranews.org/post/texas-democrats-look-leticia-van-de-putte-wendy-davis-ticket

[font size=5]Texas Democrats Like The Look Of A Leticia Van de Putte-Wendy Davis Ticket[/font]

By Shelley Kofler

While four Republicans are battling hard in the race for lieutenant governor, Democrats are hoping to persuade a spunky Latina from San Antonio to run against them. ....

At a fundraiser last week, Deborah Peoples, the Tarrant County Democratic Party chair, said Van de Putte would bring geographic diversity to the ticket. After 22 years in the state legislature, she’d bring experience. And she might also galvanize the Hispanic vote.

“When we look at the state of Texas and we start putting a coalition of candidates together, she brings that energy from South Texas and I think it will absolutely help the ticket,” Peoples said. ....

“She is a pharmacist and I think she’d bring a woman’s perspective, as well as a healthcare background,” Mosbacher said.

It is, in fact, the women’s healthcare issue that binds Van de Putte and Davis in what was one of the most dramatic moments ever at the Texas capitol. ....

...Republican leaders refused to let her (VAN DE PUTTE) speak. When they finally called on her she uttered the 22 words that caused hundreds of women in the capitol to explode in a protest that temporarily derailed the abortion bill.

“I said: 'At what point must a female senator raise her hand or her voice to be recognized over male colleagues in this room?'” she recalled.

Van de Putte believes the explosive reaction to her words was about more than the abortion debate.

“It was for women about not being valued, about being overlooked about not being heard," she said. ....

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