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Wendy Davis

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first: 2016-05-02
most recent: 2016-05-02
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“Housing units as a component of what we required, that we were very specific in our requirements that minority and women-owned businesses be given a piece of the pie in both construction and supply and services, and we put our money where our mouth was in that regard. We had very real accountability measures in place that really don't exist at the state level as they need to. There's a lot going on at the state level in Texas and probably elsewhere where those accountability measures aren't really being implemented and we're not realizing we want to those social measures.”
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“And I was kind of rare as a Democrat in that I truly believed in these public-private partnerships that help to create and to advance and to grow industry. And I had hoped to do that as governor too and felt that I brought a real level of expertise to the table about that and not just how you use those tools to help grow jobs, but how you use them to make sure you're growing jobs where you really need them in some of your systematically underrepresented, underemployed parts of your community. I think we did a beautiful job of that in Fort Worth. And I'm really proud of the work that we did and the fact that when we created economic incentives to create mixed use developments, we were always cognizant of pushing so that everyone could have a place there, that we had always affordable housing.”
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“Absolutely. And, you know, one of the challenges I think that we have in Texas, while Austin is this beautiful progressive blue bubble and it has begun to attract industries where the employees and the people who run those companies are progressively minded It succeeds there, but it's much harder to succeed in other parts of the state where it's seen as backward and closed-minded in a lot of people's viewpoints. When I was on the city council, I chaired the Economic Development Committee for a number of years”
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“It's hard to do that there because talking about the things that are broken in a state where people think it's the best state on earth can be very challenging. And certainly addressing all of the issues that need to be addressed and yet maintain the belief in voters' minds that you don't want to come in and wreck the whole system is a difficult line to walk.”
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“Texas is so unique. It's literally like Texas like to tell us that. Yeah, I mean, just by virtue of its size. You know, it's a country in and to itself. And there's a dynamic there, an incredible pride of place that people have about that state. It's very difficult to be someone with a message like Bernie Sanders has or like Donald Trump has where you're inspiring people to be upset about the things they ought to be upset about or in Donald Trump's instance the things they ought not be upset about that's a whole nother topic”
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“Talk a little about that election. What was that? You know, you obviously gotten a lot of attention, and some people didn't like you, so notoriety or attention, good attention. What is running now as a politician in any state, in any capacity? It's such a different atmosphere, correct?”
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“You know, when you look at the demographic of our state, we ought to be voting blue, but Texas has the lowest voting percentage of any state in the country. We were the third lowest in the recent primary that was held there. And it's because our gerrymandering that's taken place over 20 years plus”
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“Not because we are a red state, but because we are systemically a non-voting blue state. What do you mean by that? Cracking that knot is really hard. What does that mean?”
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“We ultimately lost the governor called another special session and the bill passed. We're living with the consequences of that now. Yes, it was Rick Perry at the time. It's Greg Abbott now. And then. It was 2014. 2013 was a filibuster, 2014 was coming upon us. We had a gubernatorial race ahead. Rick Perry had announced that he was not going to run. And I stepped up to be the Democratic candidate for that. And it was. Unbelievably excruciating, but also rewarding experience. We did not win. Very tough for a Democrat in Texas right now.”
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“Who had been there, the Capitol filled to capacity for the first time in its history. There were thousands of people there. And when they saw this unfairness, this injustice, this bending and breaking of the rules to bring an end to what they saw as a mechanism for their voices to be heard, they literally rose up and used their own voices and screamed with all their might, and because of them, we got past the midnight deadline. But then there was that little seediness that went on right at that time where the timestamp was changed and it was made to look as though it actually had passed before midnight. So there was every kind of dynamic imaginable going on. And I think that's one of the things that made it such a widely watched event. Absolutely.”
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“It's true. And I think the reason that that moment caught the attention of so many people was that it wasn't just this battle for our reproductive freedoms that we have found ourselves engaged in in the last few years. But it was kind of the whole dynamic that was happening that day. It's this petite female senator standing up against the bullying of a number of male senators on the floor. And that bullying kind of took place throughout the day in a way that really added to the dynamic of what was happening. And then at the very end of the day, I mean, literally we couldn't have written a storybook ending that would have been more beautifully poignant of what it means to get involved in a democratic action. I did not succeed in getting the filibuster past the midnight deadline. It was called ultimately to an end at about a quarter till midnight, and the people”
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“Not support. It did, and it shows the remarkable power of the conversation that takes place in social media. Because while that was going on through the day and building and building through the day, ultimately 200,000 people were watching the live stream. I don't even know the numbers of people who were engaged social media wise, but the national mainstream media was ignoring what was happening. As a story, you mean the actual story. Yes, people made the news by doing it themselves, by having a conversation in the marketplace of social media. And the person who founded Twitter a week or so later said this is exactly why I started this platform. This is the kind of thing I hoped would happen with it.”
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“And I beat a Republican, and a Republican district. That's right. That's right. It had not happened in Texas like ever. So it was pretty ordinary, yes. But I think certainly my experience on the Fort Worth City Council and the fact that people knew me from that was very helpful and served for six years in the Texas Senate. A lot of people came to know who I was in 2013 because of that filibuster to try to stop an anti-reproductive rights bill. One that formed the basis of the recent Supreme Court argument, the whole woman's health case, and that we're all crossing our fingers will turn out favorably for the women in our state.”
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“How did you get there? I came up through the city council. I was one of those people like so many in this country, first generation college student. I got involved in government not because I had any thought or plan to do that, but I went to city council to argue. This is awesome about something, actually in Fort Worth, Texas, about something that mattered to me. And the next thing I knew, I was hooked. And I think that's often the story. We advocate for something. We start seeing how the system works. We decide to fix the system by becoming a part of it ourselves. I served for nine years on the city council. And then in 2008, I ran for a state senate seat. Our state senate seats are huge. They're about 800,000 people. They're larger than congressional districts.”
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