Wendy Davis is running for governor in the state of Texas
and her political opponents are trying to point out certain
inaccuracies or inconsistencies in some other statements that she's made in the
past
now her website talks about how she had a very very difficult
%uh you know early life because she got pregnant at the young age she was
divorced at a young age
and she also lived in a trailer park at some point in her life I'm however
according to her opponents Davis was 21
not nineteen I stated in her online texas senate biography
we are first marriage ended in divorce also Davis
and her daughter Amber lived only a few months in her family's mobile home
so apparently now I her opponents are saying look she's not who she says she
is
she's lying about certain things to make it seem as though her life was much more
difficult than it really was
are but what do you guys think about this do you think that these are little
white lies do you think that she might have
I'm just you know misspoke in in the pastor maybe
didn't really check well you know her specific age when these things happen I
mean
do you think that she was intentionally lying to her constituents
no Durango absolutely not
I think that's something that a lot people that enter public office or pub
enter public service
discover after well that oh yeah things I say they have to be really specific
because
every little thing you say will be picked out and torn apart as much as
possible and use by your opponents
I'm the one that said though I think that what or her opponents are saying I
think it's a
texas Attorney General Greg Abbott who's gonna be running against her you know
one of the things that his
a group has said no they basically call her her narrative
fanciful which i think is and in Salt to single mothers especially those who have
to struggle through the
taxes public said public system you know that that
putting this kind scrutiny on her is obviously part of politics right but
there is essentially lying about what she said to me now when you say that you
were divorced at nineteen
but will you were separated at nineteen in the divorce became final later
read it thoroughly a lot you were still a single mother at that point brother
but another
another inconsistency in her story
was that you know she really struggle to get to college but it turns out that her
second husband helped her pay for Harvard degree
and now they're pointing to that and saying oh don't make it seem like you
had to work so hard to get that degree the reality is you know you had a
husband that was really
financing your education so what do you guys have to say about that because I
would make the assumption
or not these ones I think the argument that as a republic and right
if you are trying to make a statement about how american should
pull themselves up from the bootstraps and worked really really hard because
this is the land of opportunity
Wendy Davis is a perfect example about where she was in a disadvantage
situation and she found a way to make
things work book if this is the best the republicans have on this woman
I'm an already she she's already become a national star
for a state grace but if this is the best they have that this 1921 being
and yes she did fides the you know that he paid for it some other college all
that
but it is but they got then she is going to be just fine
right and also in terms of embellishing your your resume
or your history or your past this is also pretty mild in that regard who you
know this isn't
she didn't have those a child appeared out of nowhere not even that I think
would be that big a deal actually
because it would be against anything that she supposedly stands for
so this is this is pretty weak stop in and fairly this is just politics 101
mizrahi do they come out with something anything that's by slightly wrong
you can run but you know to your quiet about this being had
something that republicans are always saying specially taxes you know personal
responsibility pull yourself up by your own bootstraps
right expecting intellectual consistency I think from republicans on this
particular issue would be a yes to talk that's an argument that the use at their
own convenience right when it comes to
governmental programs and social services they want to cut that'll make
the argument but when they see someone
actually succeed they'll turn around and tell the person apart which is
if it serves them political thing I heard them politically exactly so get an
argument that they use at their own convenience
real quick I do want to no what Wendy Davis has said in response to this
criticism
she said quote up my lane which should have been tighter
I'm learning about using broader looser language I need to be more focused on
the detail
she also said the truth is that age 19 I was a teenage mother living alone with
my daughter in a trailer
ants struggling to keep us afloat on my way to a divorce
so she is clarifying exactly why she she was like the only that trailer
yeah that's not that's not a lot I did not know what I was only okay that's
right way of saying this is like the simplest and easiest kinda been bill
this meant that would be if you were to ask if I said he will where were you it
when you were 23 exactly
mean you get the wrong apartment you know you mean like what she did here was
so mild
really so mild and not against anything that hurt
campaign stands for or anything that we know she stands for so
there is an even like an element of hypocrisy here and I also want to point
out one last thing is that she had help
and it just shows that you know when republicans or others
who want to cut things like child care that's a great thing
I know that she could not have done it if her husband had not stayed home to
help raise her daughter
if he had not put in that much effort into it is is very
very difficult for single moms to get as far along she hadn't think that that
would be something I would be celebrated but obviously
they're not going to do that yeah everybody does not have a good track
record in terms of their concern for single mothers
no it doesn't surprise me that they would attack her this way