{"id":54687,"date":"2014-10-14T20:51:59","date_gmt":"2014-10-15T00:51:59","guid":{"rendered":"\/news\/?p=54687"},"modified":"2014-10-16T15:06:49","modified_gmt":"2014-10-16T19:06:49","slug":"wendy-davis-goes-negative-with-despicable-ad-on-opponents-disability","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/wendy-davis-goes-negative-with-despicable-ad-on-opponents-disability\/","title":{"rendered":"Wendy Davis goes negative with despicable ad on opponent&#8217;s disability"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;\" class=\"sharethis-inline-share-buttons\" ><\/div><p>Gubernatorial candidate Wendy Davis seems to have realized that her pro-abortion\u00a0platform has failed to capture the attention of Texans and she&#8217;s\u00a0stooped to a new low in her desperation to win. She has spent much of her time rushing ridiculous\u00a0attacks at\u00a0her opponent, Texas Attorney General Greg Abbott. Because Abbott\u00a0has a squeaky clean record (unlike Davis), Wendy\u00a0has stooped to attacking him for being disabled. Watch her new ad <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=lush7TZB860\">here<\/a>:<\/p>\n<div class=\"video-container\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1000\" height=\"563\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/lush7TZB860?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Supporters of Davis, who is down in the polls by high-single to low-double digits, have argued that this is her<a href=\"http:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/politics\/videos\/2014-10-13\/wendy-davis-and-the-wheelchair-ad\">\u00a0&#8216;Hail Wendy&#8217; pass<\/a> in a last-ditch effort to secure votes. But politicians on both sides of party lines are questioning her level of desperation in the face of this horrendous personal attack.<\/p>\n<p>Anyone who watched Davis filibuster\u00a0a bill last summer that protects pain-capable, late-term unborn children from <a href=\"\/news\/wendy-davis-running-governor-texas\/\">excruciating abortions<\/a> can easily\u00a0explain\u00a0this low-blow from the Davis campaign; they don&#8217;t expect a woman who vehemently opposes innocent life to have any scruples about attacking the disabled (or anyone else, for that matter).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Gubernatorial candidate Wendy Davis seems to have realized that her pro-abortion\u00a0platform has failed to capture the attention of Texans and she&#8217;s\u00a0stooped to a new low in her desperation to win. She has spent much of her time rushing ridiculous\u00a0attacks at\u00a0her opponent, Texas Attorney General Greg Abbott. 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