{"id":186801,"date":"2013-10-03T19:04:00","date_gmt":"2013-10-04T00:04:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2013\/10\/03\/wendy-davis-is-running-for-texas-governor\/"},"modified":"2013-10-03T19:04:00","modified_gmt":"2013-10-04T00:04:00","slug":"wendy-davis-is-running-for-texas-governor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2013\/10\/03\/wendy-davis-is-running-for-texas-governor\/","title":{"rendered":"Wendy Davis is Running for Texas Governor"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>After her bursting on the national political scene, she has announced that <a href=\"http:\/\/www.star-telegram.com\/2013\/10\/03\/5217932\/crowds-gathering-as-davis-prepares.html\">she is running for Governor<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"color: blue;\">Wendy Davis walked across the stage at the Wiley G. Thomas Coliseum more than 30 years ago to accept her diploma from Richland High School.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span><span style=\"color: blue;\">On Thursday, she returned to that stage to kick off her bid to become Texas\u2019 48th governor.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span><span style=\"color: blue;\">\u201cThis is a campaign not just for governor, but for the very future of our state,\u201d the 50-year-old Democratic state senator from Fort Worth said. \u201cThirty-two years ago, I started my own journey in this room.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span><span style=\"color: blue;\">\u201cToday, we start a new journey \u2013 together,\u201d she said. \u201cIt\u2019s a journey that won\u2019t end on Election Day and it won\u2019t end in Austin. As long as we can make our great state even greater, we will keep going.\u201d<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span><span style=\"color: blue;\">Davis gained national fame \u2014 and notoriety \u2014 from a June filibuster geared to prevent a comprehensive abortion bill from passing, which prompted Democrats throughout the state to encourage her to try to reclaim for their party the governor\u2019s mansion which hasn\u2019t housed a Democrat since Ann Richards left in 1995.<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I think that she is facing long odds, but at least she will be competitive, and we won&#8217;t have a freak show like the 2006 election, which had Carole Keeton Insertlastnamehere and Kinky Friedman running as independents and scoring in the double digits.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s good for the Texas Democratic Party, even if she does not win.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After her bursting on the national political scene, she has announced that she is running for Governor: Wendy Davis walked across the stage at the Wiley G. Thomas Coliseum more than 30 years ago to accept her diploma from Richland High School.On Thursday, she returned to that stage to kick off her bid to become &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1136,1000],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-186801","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-breaking-news","category-elections"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/186801"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=186801"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/186801\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=186801"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=186801"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=186801"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}