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If you kept up with
Texas politics this hot summer, you have heard of the name Wendy Davis. Davis,
a Democrat Senator from Fort Worth, recently stood up for eleven hours at the
State capital to filibuster a bill that would place new restrictions and ban
the practice after 20 weeks of pregnancy in abortion clinics in Texas. She
stood long enough to kill the bill, but the bill was later on passed by Governor
Rick Perry. Even though some might see her filibuster as a failure, she still
stands strong today and has the credentials to show that she is not just an
ordinarily senator.
Raised by a single mother and becoming a single mother herself at the age of 19. Davis became the first person in herfamily to graduate from college. She attended Texas Christian University for undergrad
her studies and then continue on to Harvard Law School. Over time, she spent a few years in the title
insurance business before starting her own practiced (NewbyDavis) for federal
and local government affairs, real estate, and contract compliance. She has spent 9 years on the Fort Worth City
Council and was elected to the state senate where she became the 12th Democrat in
the upper chamber in 2008.
Because of her election in 2008, she has given
the Republicans a run for their money. In 2011, she filibuster against a budget
that underfunded the state's public schools by $5 billion and got most of the
money replaced in 2013. The filibuster made the Republican- led house strip her
of her position on the education committee. In 2012, she threw out a Republican
gerrymandering plan that would have put her in a conservative district.
Wendy Davis is a woman that has shown Texas
and the United States that she means business when it comes to politics. I
would not be surprised to see her running for Texas governor in 2014 or even
president of the United States one day. But whatever she does next, everybody
will be watching to see what she can bring new to the political table.
