Wendy Russell Davis (born Wendy Jean Russell May 16, 1963) is an American lawyer and Democrats politician from Fort Worth, Texas. Davis represents District 10 in the Texas Senate from 2009 to 2015. He was previously at the Fort Worth City Council. He is now a public speaker and political commentator, as well as founder of Deeds Not Words, a nonprofit to engage young women in politics.
On June 25, 2013, Davis held a thirteen-hour filibuster to block Senate Bill 5, a measure that included more stringent abortion rules for Texas. Filibuster played a major role in the success of the Democratic Senate in delaying spending the bill beyond the midnight deadline for the end of the legislative session, although it was finally ratified in the second session. The filibuster brings Davis's national attention, leading to speculation about a run for the Texas governor. He then ran for Texas governor in 2014, but lost to Republican candidate Greg Abbott, 59-38 per cent.
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Kehidupan awal, pendidikan, dan keluarga
Wendy Davis was born Wendy Jean Russell in West Warwick, Rhode Island, Virginia's daughter "Ginger" (nÃÆ' Â © e Stovall) and Jerry Russell. His family moved to Fort Worth, Texas in 1973, when he was 11 years old. At that time, Jerry worked at the National Cash Register. When Wendy was 13 years old, her parents divorced. His father quit his job to pursue a job at a community theater, leading his child support payments to dry up. Her mother, who has ninth grade education, supports her four children with grunt work, including one at the Braum ice cream shop.
At the age of 14, Wendy sold a newspaper subscription to Fort Worth Star-Telegram and worked at Orange Julius's booth. When he was 17 and still in high school, he moved with his girlfriend, construction worker Frank Underwood. In 1981, he graduated from Richland High School as a member of the National Honor Society. She married Underwood on January 24, 1982, and gave birth to her first daughter, Amber, later that year. When Wendy was 19 years old, she and Underwood parted ways, and she continued to stay in their car house with Amber. After a few months, she moved with her mother, and finally started living in her own apartment. Wendy filed for divorce from Underwood in December 1983, and it became official on May 22, 1984, when she was 21 years old. She was given custody of Amber, with Underwood paying child support.
Davis attended the University of Texas at Arlington for one semester, but had to stop attending for financial reasons. Meanwhile, his father has opened the European Sandwich Shop and Stage Door Deli in downtown Fort Worth, with the Stage West Theater next to it. While waiting for a table at West Stage in 1983, he was introduced by his father to a lawyer and former city councilor Jeffry R. Davis, who will become her second husband.
She also works as a receptionist at a doctor's office, where a nurse gives her a flyer for Tarrant County College. He enrolled in their two-year paralegal program, attending from 1984 to 1986. He started dating Jeff Davis during this time. After Tarrant College, he enrolled at Texas Christian University (TCU) in 1986 with an academic scholarship and Pell Grant. Wendy and Jeff were married on May 30, 1987 after dating for "two or three years", and they settled in a historic house in the neighborhood of Mistletoe Heights, Fort Worth. After marriage, Jeff began to make a significant financial contribution to Wendy's education. She will eventually adopt her daughter, Amber. The second daughter, Dru, was born in September 1988. Davis underwent an abortion for two subsequent pregnancies, one for ectopic tube pregnancy (which he named "Lucas") and the other because the fetus suffered from Dandy-Walker syndrome (which he named "Tate Elise ").
In May 1990 Davis graduated from TCU with a Bachelor of Arts degree in English. That fall, she moved with her daughter to Lexington, Massachusetts, to study at Harvard Law School. This life situation proved untenable, and after four months his daughter returned to Texas to live with Jeff. Wendy's mother helps take care of them, and Wendy flies back regularly to visit her family for the rest of her time at Harvard. While at Harvard, he volunteers at a legal clinic for the poor, where he helps AIDS patients write living wills and defend their spouses with their legal rights. In May 1993, he earned his law degree cum laude, and he was accepted at the State Bar of Texas in November 1993.
In November 2003, Jeff and Wendy split up. When the divorce settlement was completed in 2005, the former couple shared a "conservatory together" over Dru, who mainly lived with his father in a family home. In the divorce settlement, Jeff was given the "right to appoint the main residence" of Dru, and Wendy agreed to pay $ 1,200 per month for child support. Both parents still have the right to make decisions about other Dru's needs; Amber was a young adult in college at that time.
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Legal career
After graduating from law school, Davis was a law officer for US District Judge Jerry Buchmeyer from the Northern District of Texas in Dallas from 1993 to 1994. In 1994, he joined the Fort Worth office at Haynes & Boone and practiced litigation there for about two years. In 1999, her husband Jeff Davis started Safeco Title Co of Fort Worth, Texas and she became part owner. The title company was sold to the First American Title as part of their divorce decree. He continued to work in the Fort Worth branch of the First American Title until 2009. Davis joined Cantey Hanger in the role of Of Counsel in March 2010. Davis's advisory relationship with Cantey Hanger ended on December 31, 2013. He partnered with Brian Newby to open Newby Davis, PLLC in March 2010. Its current practices include federal and local government affairs, litigation, economic development, contract compliance and real estate issues.
During his time working for Safeco's degree company, Wendy was paid a $ 40,000 annual salary by her husband Jeff Davis, who told Robert Draper of the New York Times Magazine that she paid a salary for her job. for the city of Fort Worth as a board member, a job that pays little.
Political career
City Council
Davis first ran for the Fort Worth City Council in 1996, but was defeated by ninety votes. After his defeat, Davis sued the Fort Worth Star-Telegram, American Broadcasting Company, and Disney Company, which at that time had Star-Telegram and ABC. The Texas Tribune states that he accused "that biased coverage caused his defeat and caused injury to his physical and mental health". His claim was rejected by a Texas court, based on First Amendment free speech areas.
Subsequently, in 1999, Davis was elected to the Fort Worth City Council. During his nine-year tenure there, Davis focuses on transportation, economic development, and environmental issues. He also works on economic development projects, such as renovations of Montgomery Plaza, Tower, Pier One and Radio Shack campus.
Republican politics
While on duty at the Fort Worth City Council, Davis voted in the Republican primaries. Davis has said that he was then a Republican because he liked Congressman Kay Granger of Fort Worth, and he wanted to vote on the would-be judge in the Republican primaries. He voted Republican in 1996, 1998 and 2006 and has awarded $ 1,500 to Granger. Also, in April 1999, he gave $ 250 to President George W. Bush's first presidential campaign.
Country Senate
Davis represents the Texas Senate, District 10, which includes parts of Tarrant County, Texas. In 2008, he defeated ruling Republican Senator Kim Brimer for the seat, despite legal challenges to his nomination by the Republican state. Davis was re-elected in 2012, defeating the challenge of Mark M. Shelton, a Fort Worth pediatrician and a Republican member of the Texas House of Representatives, who is looking for District 10 seats again in 2014. Davis is Vice Chairman of the Senate Select Committee on Governance Open. He is also Member of the Economic Development Senate Committee, the Senate Committee on Transportation, and the Committee on Veterans Affairs and Military Installations. He previously served on the Senate Committee for Education and as Vice Chairman of the Senate Committee on International Relations and Trade.
On May 29, 2011, Davis launched a budget bill filibuster that deducted $ 4 billion from public education in the state, resulting in a special session called by Texas Governor Rick Perry.
Davis was honored with awards and recognition during his first tenure in the Texas Legislature, including AARP's "Bold Woman Award" from Girls, Inc., "Freshman of the Year" from AQQ, "Champion for Children Award" from Equity Center and "Champion's Health Award Texas Woman "from the OB-GYN Texas Association. In 2009, Texas Monthly named her "Rookie of the Year". He was also chosen by readers of Fort Worth Weekly as the "Best Ward of the People". In January 2012, Davis is listed among the "12 State Legislators to Watch in 2012" by the Magazine Government and is named as a candidate for races throughout the state.
At the beginning of the 83rd Session, the senators drew the term in the post-redistricting process, once-a-decade. Davis withdrew a two-year term and is ready to be re-elected in November 2014. In March 2013, he announced his intention to run again to the Senate. On October 3, 2013, he changed his mind and announced the nomination for the Texas Governor instead of re-election to the State Senate.
filibuster 2013
On June 25, 2013, Davis did a filibuster to block Senate Bill 5, a proposal to ban abortion after 20 weeks of pregnancy, requiring an abortion clinic to meet the same standards that the hospital's surgical center does, and mandating that the doctor who had the abortion had received privileges at the nearest hospital. He attempted to hold the floor until midnight, when the Senate's special session ended, after which it could no longer vote on the measurements. After the 11 hour filibuster - ended three hours less than midnight - Lieutenant Governor David Dewhurst decided that Davis had gone the topic, forcing a vote on whether the filibuster could continue. Despite Republican efforts, parliamentary inquiries from Leticia R. Van de Putte and others and raucous cheers and shouting from political activists gathered on the Capitol lasted until midnight and the closing of a special session. Following the deadline, Republicans pointed out that the vote had taken place and passed, while the Democrats stated that the vote had taken place after midnight, making it void. Dewhurst later admitted that the bill was dead. The next day, Governor Rick Perry requested a second special session to allow for other attempts to bypass the restrictions on abortion, as well as to address other issues. The bill was finally ratified by the House and Senate in a second special session in July 2013, prompting one commentator to declare that "Wendy Davis won the battle, but Rick Perry won the war." The bill was signed by Gov. Rick Perry on July 18, 2013.
The filibuster attracted national attention, including in The New York Times and The Washington Post. National fundraising by and speculation about running the governor for Davis was also followed. He is encouraged to be run by groups such as the Texas Battleground and the EMILY's List.
Campaign for Texas Governor
On 3 October 2013, Davis announced his intention to run for governor of Texas in the 2014 election. On March 4, 2014, he won a Democratic nomination with 432,065 votes (79.1 percent), defeating a single challenger, Reynaldo "Ray" Madrigal, who received 114,458 votes (20.9 percent). Davis is the first female nominee for Texas governor since Governor Ann Richards was defeated in 1994 by George W. Bush. In the general election on 4 November 2014 he lost to Republican candidate Greg Abbott, the Attorney General who then left.
In January 2014 Wayne Slater of Dallas Morning News reported that while the basic story in which Davis defines himself politically is true, the full story is "more complicated" and the shortened version of Davis has told of the campaign trail " obscure "some facts. In particular, Slater notes Davis is not divorced until he is 21, not 19 as he claims, that he only stayed in his family's car home for several months after the divorce, and that he has been financially supported by Jeff Davis while at TCU and Harvard. Davis acknowledged the mistake and said, "My language must be tighter, I learn to use a wider and looser language, I have to focus more on the details." Amid the controversy, Davis daughters each issued a letter to defend their mother. Dru, younger Davis's daughter wrote, "I have read and heard many things that are not true about my mother and I want to straighten it out."
In August 2014, Davis released his first campaign ad, entitled "A Texas Story." The ad attacked his rival, Abbott, for a Texas Supreme Court decision in which he disagreed. Diane Reese at Washington Post called the ad "character assassination and fear-mongering".
In October 2014, Davis campaign ads were described by Aaron Blake of The Washington Post as "one of the most disgusting campaign ads you've ever seen." He attacked Abbott as a hypocrite for taking money from a crippling crash, and then, as the attorney general, supported the litigation restrictions on such payments. Mother Jones is called "offensive and evil" advertising. MSNBC stated that the advertisement might be a "hail attempt" because Davis followed Abbott with double digits in the poll.
In November 2014, journalist Jenny Kutner reported that American thinker Deborah C. Tyler emerged with a last-minute nickname for candidate governor Davis, a "gynecist", a Kutner term felt it was meant to be insulting by Tyler, but according to Kutner, "actually sounds rather amazing after he begins to explain what it means: Gynecism promotes a political position that the ultimate and most important force a woman can have is the control of her own sexual and genital function."
On November 4, 2014, Davis lost the race to become governor by a margin of twenty percent. According to the poll he only received 47% female voters in Texas. Regarding how well his campaign runs, Chris Cillizza of the Washington Post stated that "Wendy Davis, by any measure, big disappointment" by receiving less than 40 percent of the vote in Texas.
Political position
After examining Davis's voting record for his three terms in the Texas Senate, Mark P. Jones, Chairman of the Department of Political Science at Rice University in Houston, concluded that Davis was the most liberal fourth senator of 31 state senators presented for at least two of the three terms Davis took office. Jones found that he was "significantly more liberal" than John Whitmire, Juan Hinojosa, Carlos Uresti, and Eddie Lucio, Jr., who represented the centric wing of the Texas Senate Democrat, "significantly more conservative" than JosÃÆ'Â © R. RodrÃÆ'guez, The Senate of Texas Senate is the most liberal, and "statistically indistinguishable" from the other six Senate Democrats of Texas.
Abortion
In 2009 and 2011, Davis voted against a bill that requires doctors to conduct sonograms and provide other information to abortion patients before abortion. In 2011, he will also vote against a bill that requires ultrasound before an abortion.
On June 25, 2013, he held an eleven-hour filibuster to block Senate Bill 5, a measure that included more stringent abortion rules for Texas. Filibuster played a major role in the Democratic Senate's efforts to delay the bill's passage beyond midnight deadline for the end of the legislative session, although it was finally ratified in the second session. On 5 August 2013, when asked about what legal restrictions on abortion would he support, he replied, "You know, the Supreme Court has made that decision and that is one of the freedoms protected under our Constitution and I respect the protection constitutionality. "In October 2013, campaign spokeswoman Bo Delp told Politifact via an incorrect email to say Davis was against any limitations. "Like most Texans, Senator Davis opposes long-term abortion except when life or mother's health is threatened, in cases of rape or incest or in cases of severe and irreversible fetal abnormalities," Delp said. Also in October 2013, the EMILY List supports Wendy Davis for governors in 2014.
On February 11, 2014, Davis said that he would support the ban on abortion after 20 weeks of pregnancy, if the law is suspended enough for women and doctors. He said he found a ban on having an abortion after 20 weeks became the "most inappropriate" provision in an abortion he submitted last year.
Pistol right
While at the Fort Worth City Council, Davis supports arms restrictions, including for arms performances at city facilities.
In 2011, he voted against a bill authorizing hidden gun handlers to carry hidden pistols while on college campuses.
In 2013, he selected a bill setting a specific tax exemption for a firearms factory, along with a bill that certifies a certain student to carry a pistol or licensed ammunition in a locked motor vehicle on a university campus or campus.
On February 6, 2014, he declared support for a proposed open arms law in Texas, which was banned under Texas state law. State Senators from Fort Worth say such a law should allow private property owners to determine whether weapons can be openly made on their property. He also said background checks and training requirements would "help ensure that only mentally and law-abiding citizens may carry, whether hidden or open." He then said that he believes the municipality should be able to decide whether the proposed open carry and existing hidden carry laws should be used within their limits. After losing the election, he said that he was against open carry, and that "I made a quick decision about it with a very short conversation with my team and it did not really match what I thought was the correct position on the issue. ".
LGBT Rights
In 2000, Davis chose the Fort Worth non-discriminatory ordinance based on sexual orientation.
In 2011, he wrote the only version of the anti-bullying law that included LGBT and youth-sponsored suicide prevention laws and lobbied for killing anti-transgender marriage bills.
In 2013, he co-authored the Senate version of the statewide nondiscrimination statute, the inclusive non-discriminatory insurance legislation that came with him, and he was one of only two senators who voted against the anti-trans marriage bill.
In January 2014, the Human Rights Campaign endorsed Wendy Davis for governors in 2014. On February 13, 2014, he expressed support for same-sex marriage and said that Attorney-General Greg Abbott, the election opponent in the race for governors, should stop defending the ban country on same-sex marriage.
Cannabis
On February 11, 2014, Davis expressed support for the decriminalization of marijuana. He said he would support the law to reduce criminal provisions because it has a small amount of marijuana and believes medical marijuana should be handed over to voters.
Electoral history
Wendy Davis lost her first race to Fort Worth City Council in 1996, but after her election in 1999 she served a nine-year tenure at the Fort Worth City Council. Davis ran unscathed in the 2001 and 2005 elections. His career in the Texas State Senate began in 2008, when he broke free by two percentage points from Republican rookie Kim Brimer. He was re-elected in 2012.
Proposed TV series
In 2015, Davis began working as executive co-producer of the proposed television series for NBC about a "fictitious female Democratic senator who, having lost the race of the Texas governor, made his world upside down." In the storyline, the character Davis will join a law firm headed by the African-American Republic. Before he ran for governor in 2014, Davis has worked for a black-backed firm, Bryan Newby, who has been a general counselor to Governor Rick Perry.
Works published
- Davis, Wendy (2014). Forgot to Be Afraid: A Memoir . Blue Rider Press. ISBN: 978-0399170577.
References
External links
- Official website
- Wendy Davis on Twitter
- Senator Wendy Davis: District 10 in the Texas Senate
- Wendy Davis (politician) in Curlie (based on DMOZ)
- Profile in Project Vote Smart
- Country of Senator Wendy Davis at The Texas Tribune
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