Want to see what happens when a DEMOCRAT actually STANDS UP and FIGHTS the Republicans?

[bvar22]

[font size=4]"Filibuster fame nets Wendy Davis political donation windfall"[/font]

DALLAS — [font size=3]Texas state Senator Wendy Davis has reaped nearly $1 million in political donations[/font] since she staged a nearly 11-hour filibuster that ultimately failed to stop the Texas legislature approving stringent new restrictions on abortion in the state, her office said on Monday.

Davis, 50, who is running for re-election to the state Senate in 2014 and has been called upon by some fellow Democrats to run for Texas governor, raised $933,000 in two weeks and now has more than $1 million in her campaign coffers, her campaign said.

With her filibuster last month, Davis drew national attention to the debate over a Texas bill that would ban most abortions after 20 weeks of pregnancy, impose strict new health and safety standards on abortion clinics and limit use of the RU-486 drug to end pregnancies.


[font size=1]Photo Mike Stone / Reuters file[/font]


http://usnews.nbcnews.com/_news/2013/07/15/19489873-filibuster-fame-nets-wendy-davis-political-donation-windfall?lite

That is a [font size=3]COOL MILLION $DOLLARS$[/font] from grateful, HUNGRY Democrats for simply [font size=3]Doing Her JOB![/font]

Thank YOU Texas State Senator Wendy Davis
for reminding us HOW it is DONE!
Its been so long that we forget what that looks like.


You will know them by their [font size=3]WORKS.[/font]

[liberal_at_heart]

1. a democrat willing to fight. What a sight for sore eyes.

[Chipper Chat]

35. Compare her to Durbin and Schumer.

Didn't Durbin have to apologize to Rush Limbag a few years ago? And Schumer is in love with republicans.

[Avalux]

2. I attended a fundraiser for her in SA last night.

She hasn't decided if she'll run for Gov just yet, but us Texas Dems are hoping she does. Here's a clip from last night:

http://www.ksat.com/news/wendy-davis-addresses-san-antonio-democrats/-/478452/21316584/-/9gaika/-/index.html

[rhett o rick]

3. We need more like her. nm

[GoneFishin]

4. People really are hungry for representatives who "represent" them.

" .... from grateful, HUNGRY Democrats for simply Doing Her JOB! .... "

[WillyT]

5. HUGE K & R !!! - Thank You !!!

[ConcernedCanuk]

6. Yup - I remember alright . . .

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THAT's what happens

remember the OP title:

"Want to see what happens when a DEMOCRAT actually STANDS UP and FIGHTS the Republicans?"

sorry, but I think the USA was doomed the day that happened

and no one really paid for that,

except every living USA citizen.

(sigh)

CC

[rwsanders]

9. Agreed. Whoever was really responsible has been on a run for domination every since.

[awoke_in_2003]

11. I tend to agree...

the MIC and Wall Street have been making the calls since.

[ConcernedCanuk]

14. I think the MIC and Wall Street were making the calls THEN!

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Prescott was involved too methinks . . .

CC

[awoke_in_2003]

16. Oh, I agree...

that was their coming out, so to speak.

[Coyotl]

20. That has been the case too many times!

[Boomerproud]

25. That was a rough, but necessary point.

It wasn't just a political assassination-it was a public execution. Every president since then knows the score.
You're damned right when you say that every living USA citizen has paid for that moment, no matter who fired the fatal shot and why.

[MrMickeysMom]

33. At some point, the sun has to shine on this...

So we don't give up trying anymore.

Personally, I hope she runs!

[PowerToThePeople]

34. REC

[PCIntern]

43. Yup. No question...nt

[BobbyBoring]

54. That was the beginning of the end

of the US as many of us knew it. Ike had only been out of office a few years and left us a warning we failed to heed.

[TBF]

62. He did leave a warning -

but it was likely to late to do much about it. When Kennedy did try look what happened ... no way Obama was going to make the same mistake.

It will not be a president who changes the course of this country, it will be the people when they've had enough of it.

[think]

7. K&R

[NYC_SKP]

8. KR nt

[Enthusiast]

10. K&R! We want to see some Republican ass kicked.

I'm just saying.

[libodem]

12. Yeah, baby

I second that!!!

[zentrum]

13. The rabid right is suing...

...her for this money. They want to charge her with the cost to the legistlature for her filibuster. They might not bother except they want to preempt this war chest for her campaign for Govenor.

[AnneD]

19. The women in Texas.....

are not about to let her funds run out. The good old boys just don't realize how pissed we are. When you get hundreds of protestor out in 90+ heat in July, the fireworks are just starting. Last time the Texas Legislature pull this shit....we got Ann Richard.

[NJCher]

51. this post

made my day.


Cher

[Coyotl]

21. You mean someone made a comment to that effect and was laughed at.

[Melissa G]

31. That's such BS.

The Dems agreed to pass the bills they had all already agreed on and Lt Guv Dewhurst would not bring them to the floor before the declared filibuster even after being publicly told by the chair of the Dem caucus that Dems would back and pass them ahead of the filibuster if he would just call them up. The Rabid right ignores this inconvenient fact..

[King_Klonopin]

37. Haven't they heard? Money = Free Speech. Just ask turd blossom and the Kock brothers.

[cali]

15. I have to say, she went well beyond simply doing her job.

[Heather MC]

17. Meanwhile back at the Ranch the Koch brothers donate another 100 mil to her toothless opponent

[bonniebgood]

24. And when and IF she runs for Gov. Bill and Barack will be campaigning

AGAINST her siding with some corporate dem. just wait and see.

[Dustin DeWinde]

30. why the gratuitous dig at the president?

Batters just can't let go of their irrational hatred of our president.

But this thread is about Wendy Davis and the rewards of fighting the good fight. WTG Wendy.

[calimary]

40. THANK YOU!!! And Welcome to DU, Dustin DeWinde!

Glad you're here. LOVE your screen name! Now I've got that damn song running through my head...

And yes, +1,000,000 for Wendy Davis!!! Let's keep the focus on her and make sure she knows we all have her back! Besides (and you'll see this a lot, as we find it necessary to remind each other frequently), haters gotta hate.

[bonniebgood]

47. 'Batters" remind me of the 'batterd wife Syndrome'

I do have fact to back-up what I say. They did it before in Arkansas. The both
went down and campaigned for Blanche 'anti-union' Lincoln AGAINST a progressive Democrat
like Wendy. Do some re-search. when is TRUTH the same as 'irrational hatred'? I think 'irrational hatred is more linked to ignorance.

[Dustin DeWinde]

60. maybe you just came to america

Or maybe you just have an abnormally short memory span. In any case here is a free history lesson courtesy of good old fashioned American liberal generosity.


President Obama backed Blanche Lincoln because she supported the affordable care act passed. It not only would have been unjust to drop the lady after he got her vote, it would have been politically unwise.

Lots of liberals, myself included, never cared for ms Lincoln. But most of us being grownups we didn't jump to the conclusion that Obama was some sort of rightwing conspirator.

And despite how many digs you throw at the president, and how many distractions you come up with, this thread is about the great job Wendy Davis is doing down there in tx.
We need more like her, and more are stepping forward because folks are fed up with the politics of distraction.

[dreamnightwind]

63. He had to support her in the primaries? Makes no sense.

He didn't have to support her in the primaries just because of her health care vote, that's ridiculous.
And the "grownup" and "Obama right-wing conspirator" remarks were uncalled for. You got nothing. Obama supports who he does, and appoints who he does, and those things are subject to scrutiny by good Democrats. As another poster around here is fond of saying, you will know them by their works.

[Dustin DeWinde]

66. people return favors

It's called common decency. And strange how you still can't utter a word of support for Wendy Davis.

Are you a teabagger?

[dreamnightwind]

67. Supporting Blanche Lincoln = human decency?

Unbelievable. And for the teabagger remark, hell no, I'm to left of our own party, so quite the opposite. But for that sterling reply and question, welcome to ignore. Have a nice stay.

[Dustin DeWinde]

68. still cant acknowledge wrndy davis' heroics eh?

Your tale is full of sound and fury signifying nothing but teabaggery .

[bvar22]

69. In the Arkansas Democratic Primary,

DINO Senator Blanche Lincoln was CAMPAIGNING as the "Woman who Killed the Public Option", and as "Opposing the Obama Agenda" in the Arkansas Democratic Primary. She was quit proud of the stand against "Big Government Take Over of health care".

Your memory is a little "off".
Here is what really happened in Arkansas .

The Arkansas Democratic Primary was a heart breaking eye opener for the Grass Roots and Organized LABOR. We were given a Look Behind the Curtain,
and it wasn't very pretty.

[font size=3]We did EVERYTHING right in Arkansas in 2010.
We did EXACTLY what the White House asked us to do to "give the President Progressives in Congress that would work with him."[/font]

We organized and supported Lt Governor Bill Halter, the Pro-LABOR/ Pro-Health Care challenger to Blanche Lincoln.
Halter was:

* Polling BETTER against the Republicans in the General,

*was popular in Arkansas in his OWN right,

*had an Up & Running Political machine,

* had a track record of winning elections (Lt. Governor)

*Had the full backing of Organized LABOR and The Grass Roots activists

*Supported the Public Option, EFCA, and UNIONS

*was handing Blanche her Anti-LABOR ass in The Primary until the White House stepped in

*Blanche had NO chance of winning the General in Arkansas

Guess what happened.
Our BIGGEST enemy to bringing "change" to The Senate was NOT The "Obstructionist" Republicans.
NO!
Our BIGGEST enemy to bringing "change" to The Senate was The Obama White House!

The White House stepped in at the last minute to save Blanche's failing primary campaign with an Oval Office Endorsement of The Witch that Wrecked the Obama Agenda,
and Bill Clinton was dispatched on a Campaign Tour for Blanche around the state bashing Organized LABOR and "Liberals" at every opportunity.

"White House rescues Anti-Health Care Blanche Lincoln's Primary Campaign. "

"So what did the Democratic Party establishment do when a Senator who allegedly impedes their agenda faced a primary challenger who would be more supportive of that agenda? They engaged in full-scale efforts to support Blanche Lincoln.

* Bill Clinton traveled to Arkansas to urge loyal Democrats to vote for her, bashing liberal groups for good measure.

*Obama recorded an ad for Lincoln which, among other things, were used to tell African-American primary voters that they should vote for her because she works for their interests.

*The entire Party infrastructure lent its support and resources to Lincoln — a Senator who supposedly prevents Democrats from doing all sorts of Wonderful, Progressive Things which they so wish they could do but just don’t have the votes for.

<snip>

What happened in this race also gives the lie to the insufferable excuse we’ve been hearing for the last 18 months from countless Obama defenders: namely, if the Senate doesn’t have 60 votes to pass good legislation, it’s not Obama’s fault because he has no leverage over these conservative Senators. It was always obvious what an absurd joke that claim was; the very idea of The Impotent, Helpless President, presiding over a vast government and party apparatus, was laughable. But now, in light of Arkansas, nobody should ever be willing to utter that again with a straight face.

Back when Lincoln was threatening to filibuster health care if it included a public option, the White House could obviously have said to her: if you don’t support a public option, not only will we not support your re-election bid, but we’ll support a primary challenger against you. Obama’s support for Lincoln did not merely help; it was arguably decisive, as The Washington Post documented today:"

<much more>

http://www.salon.com/2010/06/10/lincoln_6/

When the supporters of Pro-LABOR Lt Gov Bill Halter asked the White House WHY they threw their support behind Lincoln at the last minute, rescuing her failing campaign, the answer was ridicule and insults to Organized LABOR and the Grass Roots.

Ed Schultz sums up my feeling perfectly in the following clip.
http://videocafe.crooksandliars.com/heather/ed-schultz-if-it-wasnt-labor-barack-obama-


That is what happened in Arkansas in 2010.
I KNOW because I was one of the Union Thugs working to get Pro-Working Class Democrats elected to the Senate.

One thing about us Union Thugs,
we may take an ass whipping from time to time,
[font size=3]but we NEVER forget a Sucker Punch & WHO Threw it.[/font]




You will know them by their [font size=3]WORKS.[/font]

[zbdent]

18. She has more balls than plenty of Dem politicians ...

[gulliver]

22. Notice of course that she is a DEMOCRAT.

Thank you, Wendy Davis, for fighting and for being a Democrat.

[treestar]

23. It can happen in Texas

Due to their filibuster rules.

Senate Republicans don't have to go through the speaking. But they must be admired for their hard line filibustering, no?

It's OK to be obstructionist when we like the obstructing.

[cheapdate]

26. She stands against the Republicans in the Texas General Assembly

over their harmful, degrading, and dangerous abortion laws. Most Democrats, including most female Democratic lawmakers, feel the same way. So do I. Good for her.

What if it turns out that Wendy Davis is "moderate" or "centrist" on other questions, such as banking and business, national security, or environmental protection? Would you hold her to the same standard as you hold the leader of the Democratic party -- i.e. would you "tear her a new one" -- or would you let it slide?

[Zorra]

27. Excellent post, bvar22. I only send money to Democrats who walk the walk. nt

[Stinky The Clown]

28. "That is a COOL MILLION $DOLLARS$ from grateful, HUNGRY Democrats for simply Doing Her JOB!"

Kudos to her.

Hey, wimpocrats. Lissin Up!!!!

K&R

[frazzled]

29. That's great (but)

I'm a huge fan of Wendy Davis and what she did; I'm thrilled she's raised nearly a million bucks.

But that result is not the definition of "fighting" this board generally accepts. The result we would have looked for would have been for the Texas abortion bill to have been defeated as a result of her fighting. Despite all her hard work, this draconian law passed anyway.

President Obama raised half a billion (with a b) dollars in 2012. But he hasn't gotten much done at all in the 7 months since his new term began for all of that. Raising money is not what we're looking for at the end of a fight.

Wait, you say ... it wasn't Wendy's fault that those sneaky accursed Republicans passed that bill. No, it most certainly was not. But neither has it been President Obama's fault that the sneaky accursed Republicans in Washington have doubled down and blocked his every move in Congress, either (despite his going around the country talking about what to do about income inequality and asking for infrastructure money and other economic needs). Yet in the DU universe, these setbacks are because Obama doesn't "fight" hard enough. Even fighters lose.

I truly pray Wendy Davis is the next governor of Texas. But my guess is that even if she is, she's going to have one heck of a time getting the Texas legislature to overturn that bill. Or if by some miracle it does happen, there will be other things she will not be able to accomplish, no matter how hard she fights.

My only point is that we don't fight to raise money. That's not an end goal of any politician.

Go, Wendy.

[PowerToThePeople]

32. RE: That's not an end goal of any politician

I am not so sure about that statement.

[bearssoapbox]

36. You are right.

Even if the repubs write and agree on a bill, as soon as President Obama says that he likes it or agrees with any part of it, the rabid right does a 180 and votes the opposite of what they wrote and sponsored.

They've been doing it from day 1 with greater ferocity than Neuter and his gang ever went against President Clinton.

Frankly I'm surprised at the good that he has accomplished.

And disappointed at his cave-ins and what he has not.

[calimary]

41. Welcome to DU, bearssoapbox!

Good to have you with us. If I had a nickel for every time I've gnashed my teeth about this, I'd have more money than the koch brothers.

[bearssoapbox]

42. Thanks Calimary

So true about the gnashing of the teeth.

It's good to be here. I'm so glad that I found DU and finally signed up.

[calimary]

53. Well, you're among MANY friends here. Some of us rather cantakerous at times... LOL!

But sometimes it feels as though we're all we've got. Sometimes we cling to each other in bewilderment and near-desperation as our beloved country falters around us and seems about ready to fall to the hyenas! I found my way here in 2001, a few months after Selection 2000, when the media was SO deeply in bush/cheney's back pocket that it seemed as though they were part of the fabric and stitching. And it felt almost as though I was surrounded by aliens. NOBODY felt the way I did. NOBODY was outraged the way I was. NOBODY saw what I had seen and seemed to feel thoroughly disgusted and horrified... until I found DU. Frankly, the first site I found that offered me a refuge from the madness was a site called "Resident bush." Its owner asserted that one could reasonably state that george w. bush was the resident in the White House, even though he was not legitimately elected as President, so we could fairly call him Resident bush. None of us felt comfortable referring to him as President. That's certainly how I felt. I simply COULD NOT recognize his presidency as legitimate. And scrounging around the Resident bush site led me to another site called Buzzflash.com, which featured DU in its links. I clicked there, and lo these many years later, here I still am!

This place literally kept a lot of us sane during those horrible years. It felt like a hostage hold, like we were strangers in a strange land - in every sense of the word. And the media that gleefully obliged the republi-CONS' persecution of President Clinton, and probed deep down all the way into both his and Hillary's underwear drawers and bellybutton lint, was blind, deaf, and mute when it came to revealing the truth about the bush/cheney coup d'etat - which is what it was. I swear, that fucking michael isikoff couldn't investigate his way around a brown paper bag, to this very day, unless there was a stained blue dress and a Clinton in there.

This place was an oasis in a very large desert. This place was a life raft in a vast, choppy sea. This place was an air drop of food supplies to starving captives far down below. This place was a place to hang, and seek refuge, and find others of like mind. It's hard to describe how big a relief I felt when I discovered DU. FINALLY, I realized that I wasn't alone in my thinking or my assessments of what was going on in this country. Others felt the same way I did. I wasn't going crazy or becoming delusional. Others not only saw things the way I did, but many of them had back-up information, links, research, articles from other publications that never saw the light of day in the mainstream media, but also spoke the hard truth.

I think there were several thousand or so, here, when I found this place. By now, though, we are legion!!!!! DU has become WAY more than a website or a chat room by now. Now it's much more like a think tank! You will be smarter for hanging here. There are many resourceful researchers and analysts here, and profoundly artful writers and commentators who shape this information into easy-to-read/easy-to-understand (and share) counter-programming. You will learn more, become more educated, and have more information at your fingertips with which to beat back the arguments of those around you who can only spew talking points they hear and dutifully absorb from Pox Noise and limbaugh & friends. You may even open a few pairs of eyes, and save a few souls!

Glad you're here! Enjoy! And help us take back the House and the State Houses next year!!!!

[bearssoapbox]

64. I was a lurker for a few years

I wasn't used to all that a computer could do and was only online occasionally. I got here by Buzzflash too, via BartCop or All Hat No Cattle. I don't remember which.

I wondered what happened in 2000 and was surprised and disheartened when I pointed out what I thought was obvious I was called all sorts of names. Un-American being one of the nicest.

I may not know very many people yet except from my lurking years but the ones that have responded to me have made me very welcome and so glad that that I finally did.

You are right about all the smart people and the info found here that isn't found anywhere else. Unlike the mouth breathers that get their so called news from Faux News, OxyRush, Shammity and Cry Baby Beck, who vomit out anything... no matter how crazy it sounds.
And they believe those scum.

Well, thanks again for the warm welcome. From you and others. This is like an island of sanity in a sea of batshitinsane.

[bvar22]

58. NOwhere was the "goal" to Raise Money.

The GOAL is to STAND UP for Traditional Democratic Party Values,
visibly and publicly.
To those Democrats who have demonstrated THAT backbone and committment,
the money naturally comes from grateful Democrats who are DELIGHTED
that someone actually REPRESENTS them!

The sad thing is that what Davis and Warren do merits so much comment.
It should be unremarkable.
What they do should be hardly noticeable among the CROWD of Democratic Representatives [font size=3]Doing THEIR job too![/font]

If we had a Party and Party Leadership who take Democratic values seriously enough to do what Wendy Davis and Elizabeth Warren do,there wouldn't be any problem getting people to the polls and winning elections.

[font size=3]
"I've seen it happen time after time. When the Democratic candidate allows himself to be put on the defensive and starts apologizing for the New Deal and the Fair Deal, and says he really doesn't believe in them, he is sure to lose. The people don't want a phony Democrat. If it's a choice between a genuine Republican, and a Republican in Democratic clothing, the people will choose the genuine article, every time; that is, they will take a Republican before they will a phony Democrat, and I don't want any phony Democratic candidates in this campaign."
---President Harry Truman

QED:2010[/font]



You will know them by their [font size=3]WORKS.[/font]

[frazzled]

59. No, the OP said "this is what happens" when Democrats stand up

and then cited the $1 million raised.

So far, as great as she was in the filibuster, she has still to (a) actually get elected (which I hope she does, with the help of Texas women); and (b) actually succeed in getting the abortion law she filibustered against repealed by the (conservative) Texas legislature.

Until then, it's all just (as is said of Obama) "nice speeches."

There are not yet any WORKS at all, just talk and money. Just like what many here criticize the president as being only good for. So let's apply the standards evenly, if we're going to apply them at all (and I'm not one who does apply that standard). Let's not be hypocrites.

[Uncle Joe]

38. Kicked and recommended.

Thanks for the thread, bvar.

[tex-wyo-dem]

39. Go Wendy!

[KansDem]

49. I see an ad campaign for the manufacturer of those shoes!

Our shoes: Great for running for exercise or running for governor!

[blkmusclmachine]

44. Want to see what happens when a DEMOCRAT actually STANDS UP and FIGHTS the Republicans?

YES!

[Le Taz Hot]

45. Wow!

A million for a state Senator this early out? That's impressive as hell. I'm not a Texan but wouldn't you just LOVE it if she replaced the usual Texas (Ann Richards notwithstanding) goodhair misogynist? If she throws her hat in the ring this Californian will happily donate what I can.

[boomerbust]

46. She's great

Being a pretty blonde certainly doesn't hurt her career either.

[JNelson6563]

48. You have a special skill, that's for sure!

I mean, not everyone could take a really positive story about a great Dem in Texas and use it to denigrate ALL DEMS! Bravo! Well done!

I'm just an amateur and would've used the story simply to praise a great lady and may imply Texas has earned at least some redemption but have along way to go to make up for some of the assholes they've inflicted on us but, again, I'm just not in your league of spreading the negative nasty.



Julie

[DirkGently]

55. Wow what a disingenuous cheap shot. WTF?

There's no "denigration of 'ALL DEMS!'" in the OP at all. Your breathless snark makes no sense.

[bvar22]

57. The only one "denigrating" loyal Democrats here...

...is YOU.

I'm cheering for MORE Democrats to STAND UP and Join the Fight.
Looks like a lot of other Good Loyal Democrats feel the same way.

Do you oppose that sentiment?

[niyad]

50. k and r

[DirkGently]

52. From the most barren soil ...

... spring some tough goddamned flowers.

Go Texas Dems.

[Jakes Progress]

56. Texas used to be known for

Molly Ivins and Barbara Jordan and other charters with grit and charm and wisdom.

We are now peopled with twits like cruz and interlopers like george.

My donations for Democrats will go to Davis and Warren. Any others that think they deserve my time and money will have to prove it the way they have. The last line of the OP is my mantra.

[lordsummerisle]

61. K&R Thanks!

and to quote Stephanie Miller, "the hotness factor certainly helped"...

[ananda]

65. Whoopie!

That's fantastic! Go Wendy Davis!