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Triana

(22,666 posts)
Tue Jan 28, 2014, 10:40 AM Jan 2014

GOP Activist Calls Wendy Davis ‘Hooker’ And ‘Whore’ On Twitter

THIS is how the GOP has allegedly "rebranded" itself in how it treats women? O_o

Wendy Davis, the Democratic candidate for Texas governor, found herself on the receiving end of a head-spinningly misogynistic and offensive Twitter rant from a Republican activist, at a time when Republicans are attempting to shed the “war on women” brand that they’ve been carrying around at least since 2012.

Davis has been forced to explain some minor discrepancies in her official biography recently. For example, she was divorced at 21, not 19 at she previously claimed, even though at 19 she was separated with legal divorce papers not becoming final for another couple of years. Also, her mother had a ninth grade education, not a sixth-grade one, The Dallas Morning News reported.

But Republicans — fearing that Wendy Davis, a popular state senator, could wrench away control of the Texas governor’s mansion for the first time since 1994 when Democratic incumbent Ann Richards was ousted by Republican George W. Bush — have seized on the seemingly small inconsistencies to attack Davis as not only a liar but a bad mother who abandoned her child.

. . .

Last Thursday GOP activist and former executive director of South Carolina’s Republican Party Todd Kincannon went his Republican colleagues one better, unleashing a series of Twitter messages branding Wendy Davis a “whore” and a “hooker” and accusing her of performing sexual favors in return for campaign contributions.


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GOP Activist Calls Wendy Davis ‘Hooker’ And ‘Whore’ On Twitter (Original Post) Triana Jan 2014 OP
This is the kind of debate I want to see. randome Jan 2014 #1
 

randome

(34,845 posts)
1. This is the kind of debate I want to see.
Tue Jan 28, 2014, 10:46 AM
Jan 2014

Davis: The Republican party refers to me as a whore.

Priebus: Mr. Kincannon does not speak for the Republican party.

Davis: Is he still a member of the Republican party?

Priebus: The Republican party is a big tent.

Davis: Do members of the Republican party speak for the Republican party?

Priebus: ....

Davis: Go to hell, Mr. Priebus.

Priebus: What? You can't-

Davis: Go. To. Hell.
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