There's a new GoodHair in TX: a fighting Dem, state Senator Wendy DAVIS

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http://www.texastribune.org/texas-legislature/82nd-legislative-session/filibuster-propels-wendy-davis-into-spotlight/

Filibuster Propels Wendy Davis Into Spotlight

Texas Democrats never had much hope in this Legislature, where Republicans have a huge majority and an unshakeable drive to slash spending without raising taxes or dipping into the state’s giant savings account.

Don’t tell that to state Sen. Wendy Davis. The Fort Worth Democrat effectively torpedoed the 82nd legislative session by refusing to settle for a school finance plan that underfunded public schools by $4 billion. ....

The filibuster was a defining moment for Davis, a twice-divorced single mother who had her first daughter as a teenager, was the first in her family to go to college, and worked her way from junior college and a Tarrant County trailer park to Harvard law school and the Fort Worth City Council. But what effect, if any, the moment will have on school funding or Davis’ political future remains unclear. ....

Davis, whose daughters are now grown, got divorced again in 2003, and spent five terms on the Fort Worth City Council before narrowly defeating longtime lawmaker Kim Brimer in 2008 to enter the Texas Senate. At the Capitol, Davis, who was named Rookie of the Year by Texas Monthly in 2009, is the subject of deep intrigue, from her romantic relationship with former Austin Mayor Will Wynn, to her fashion-icon status under the Pink Dome. The joke at the Capitol is that Davis is the only state politician with better hair than Perry. ....



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[Lucinda]

1. Can we clone her?

First that i've heard of her. I hope it isn't the last.

[AlanCranston]

2. unfortunately they are trying to draw her out of her district

by splitting up the minority precincts in Fort Worth and adding them to wealthy white republican areas

[Lucinda]

3. Yeah. :( I saw the reference to that in the article.

I hope she finds a way around it. Seems like the type of person we need in govt service.