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   That's a Democrat for you.  Always lying, never taking   
   responsbility.   
      
   Texas gubernatorial candidate Wendy Davis (D) landed in hot   
   water over the weekend when the Dallas Morning News revealed   
   that details of her biography had been "blurred."   
      
   Here's what the paper wrote about the state senator, who rose to   
   prominence after her filibuster of Texas' anti-abortion   
   legislation and gained national acclaim from Democrats:   
      
   The basic elements of the narrative are true, but the full story   
   of Davis’ life is more complicated, as often happens when public   
   figures aim to define themselves. In the shorthand version that   
   has developed, some facts have been blurred.   
      
   Davis was 21, not 19, when she was divorced. She lived only a   
   few months in the family mobile home while separated from her   
   husband before moving into an apartment with her daughter. A   
   single mother working two jobs, she met Jeff Davis, a lawyer 13   
   years older than her, married him and had a second daughter. He   
   paid for her last two years at Texas Christian University and   
   her time at Harvard Law School, and kept their two daughters   
   while she was in Boston. When they divorced in 2005, he was   
   granted parental custody, and the girls stayed with him. Wendy   
   Davis was directed to pay child support.   
      
   Initially, she acknowledged the fuzzy details in an interview   
   with reporter Wayne Slater. "My language should be tighter,” she   
   said. “I’m learning about using broader, looser language. I need   
   to be more focused on the detail.”   
      
   But now that conservative critics have pounced on the episode   
   that threatens to derail her gubernatorial hopes, Davis is   
   defiantly fighting back.   
      
   In an email to EMILY's List, a group devoted to electing   
   Democratic women, that was then sent out as a fundraising   
   solicitation by the group, Davis takes a very different tone   
   from her more contrite comments to the Dallas Morning News. She   
   calls her critics "desperate" and adds, "They've stooped to a   
   new low by attacking my family, my education, and my personal   
   story -- playing politics with the journey that has been my   
   life."   
      
   She continues, "Mine is a story about a teenage single mother   
   who struggled to keep her young family afloat. It's a story   
   about a young woman who was given a precious opportunity to work   
   her way up in the world. It's a story about resiliency, and   
   sacrifice, and perseverance. And you're damn right it's a true   
   story. Throughout this campaign, I've shared that story -- not   
   because it's unique, but because it isn't."   
      
   She does not acknowledge any of her "need to be more focused on   
   the detail."   
      
   In other words, Wendy Davis thinks it's ok to lie to get a job   
   in the government sector.   
      
   http://firstread.nbcnews.com/_news/2014/01/22/22402226-wendy-   
   davis-defiant-in-wake-of-biographical-revelations?lite   
      
       
      
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