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TexasTowelie

(112,235 posts)
Fri Jan 24, 2014, 04:09 PM Jan 2014

Group Claims Video Shows Davis Backers Mocking Abbott



A conservative group is accusing supporters of state Sen. Wendy Davis’ gubernatorial bid and Battleground Texas of mocking Attorney General Greg Abbott’s disability and encouraging voter fraud.

The video released Thursday by Project Veritas purports to show footage from a meeting of Battleground Texas volunteers and another from a meeting of an Austin Democratic group. Shortly after its release, Davis, who was not in attendance at the meetings featured in the video, released a statement calling the language in it "abhorrent."

"Greg Abbott has persevered through great personal challenge to raise a family, have a productive career, and for that he deserves our respect," she said.

During a meeting of a group identified in the video as the Austin NxNW Democrats Club, an unidentified person describes Abbott as “not good looking, he doesn’t speak very well, he doesn’t have a good personality and he’s in a wheelchair.” Paul Labuda, president of the Austin NxNW Democrats, said in an email that he had no comment on the video.

More at http://www.texastribune.org/2014/01/23/group-claims-video-shows-democrats-mocking-abbott/ .

[font color=green]Project Veritas? Oh, you mean the self-accredited journalist, convict and serial liar James O'Keefe who edits video to propagate his lies.[/font]
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Group Claims Video Shows Davis Backers Mocking Abbott (Original Post) TexasTowelie Jan 2014 OP
O'Keefe and Abbott go well together. Both like to victimize women. Downwinder Jan 2014 #1
This video is from James O'Keefe who is a liar and a fraud Gothmog Jan 2014 #2

Gothmog

(145,293 posts)
2. This video is from James O'Keefe who is a liar and a fraud
Wed Jan 29, 2014, 07:49 PM
Jan 2014

I hope that no one pays any attention to this idiot

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