TX-21: Wendy Davis eyeing run for Austin-area congressional seat
Former Democratic gubernatorial nominee and state Sen. Wendy Davis said on a podcast released Friday that she is considering a run for a congressional district that includes parts of Central and South Austin.
Speaking on “The Rabble: TX Politics for the Unruly Mob,” Davis said she is “looking very seriously at Congressional District 21.”
The district, which also includes the north side of San Antonio and six Hill Country counties, is represented by U.S. Rep. Chip Roy, a Republican who lives in Hays County just outside Austin. In November, Roy beat Democrat Joseph Kopser by 2.6 percentage points for the seat that had been held by U.S. Rep. Lamar Smith, R-San Antonio, for more than three decades. Smith retired.
“Wendy Davis and her radical left Hollywood views are out-of-step with the Texas Hill Country values I am proud to represent. ... But if she wants to spend a lot of Democrat money to run, we’ll see her on the campaign trail,” Roy tweeted Friday.
The Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee, charged with electing Democrats to the U.S. House, is targeting the district among six in Texas that Republicans won by narrow margins in November.
Davis brings the ability to raise money, the experience of being in big races and has relatively high name recognition, said David Crockett, a political scientist at Trinity University in San Antonio.
But, he said, “she wouldn’t be my first choice if I was a Democrat trying to decapitate Roy. At its heart it’s a fairly red district. We’re talking about people who are pretty conservative, and when you can brand Wendy Davis as the one filibustering on abortion rules, you’ve practically lost half the district right there.”
https://www.statesman.com/news/20190405/wendy-davis-eyeing-run-for-austin-area-congressional-seat
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He left out “socialist.”
Sick burn, dude!
These people on the far right need new material.
