Wendy Davis talks about her movie, sexual harassment and another run for governor
AUSTIN -- It’s been more than two years since Wendy Davis lived in Fort Worth, but her office on Austin’s east side offers prominent reminders of the city where she rose from a struggling single mother to a defiant state senator who gained national stardom with a 13-hour Senate filibuster.
Her diploma from TCU adorns one wall, not far from her Harvard law degree. A photograph behind her desk shows Davis in the Horned Frog-purple football helmet she sported on the Senate floor in 2009 as part of the light-hearted hazing ritual bestowed on freshman senators during the passage of their first bill.
Davis spent 42 years in Fort Worth — from pre-adolescence into her early 50s — before moving to Austin in 2015 after a disastrous 20-point defeat as the Democratic nominee in the 2014 governor’s race. Now, as that low point fades further into the past, she looks buoyantly to the days ahead, including a forthcoming biopic starring Sandra Bullock as Davis and — quite possibly — a re-entry into statewide politics.
State Democratic Chairman Gilberto Hinojosa told the Star-Telegram recently that state party leaders tried to encourage Davis to run for a statewide office in 2018 — he declined to say which one — but Davis said she didn’t feel the time was right. However, the former two-term senator said she is not ruling out a statewide bid four years later in the 2022 election cycle.
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