{"id":4513,"date":"2014-01-21T16:33:00","date_gmt":"2014-01-21T16:33:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/highplainsblogger.wordpress.com\/?p=4513"},"modified":"2014-01-21T16:33:00","modified_gmt":"2014-01-21T16:33:00","slug":"wendy-davis-struggles-to-reclaim-authenticity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=4513","title":{"rendered":"Wendy Davis struggles to reclaim authenticity"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n<p>Authenticity.<\/p>\n<p>Politicians of both major stripes, Democrat and Republican, rely on it to sell themselves to voters who have grown weary of shills and slick presentations. Democratic state Sen. Wendy Davis, a candidate for Texas governor, had portrayed her own brand of authenticity as a divorced single mom.<\/p>\n<p>Oops. Turns out she wasn&#8217;t quite as authentic as she has let on.<\/p>\n<p>http:\/\/politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com\/2014\/01\/20\/report-wendy-davis-life-story-more-complicated-than-compelling-narrative\/?hpt=hp_t3<\/p>\n<p>She&#8217;s left out some details of her marriage and her divorce. She said was divorced at 19, when she really was 21 when her marriage officially ended. She also hasn&#8217;t told Texans that her former husband had custody of her children for a time.<\/p>\n<p>Details to follow? They should.<\/p>\n<p>Texas Democrats have been all a-flutter over Davis&#8217;s gubernatorial candidacy, believing she presents the Democratic Party with its first honest shot at winning back the governor&#8217;s office that&#8217;s been in Republican hands since George W. Bush beat Ann Richards in 1994.<\/p>\n<p>Will she make good on her pledge to talk with more precision about her life? She needs to get in front of this story, although it&#8217;s looking like the story itself may lap her quickly.<\/p>\n<p>Davis has built a successful law career while struggling with some domestic issues. She also has become a political superstar while telling that story. Now we hear she&#8217;s only told part of it. Voters will demand to know all the nitty-gritty of that life story, which they figure is their business, given that Davis wants to become governor of a large and prosperous state.<\/p>\n<p>Sen. Davis needs to set the record completely straight. Election Day, Nov. 4, will be here before she knows it.<\/p>\n\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Authenticity. Politicians of both major stripes, Democrat and Republican, rely on it to sell themselves to voters who have grown weary of shills and slick presentations. Democratic state Sen. Wendy Davis, a candidate for Texas governor, had portrayed her own brand of authenticity as a divorced single mom. Oops. Turns out she wasn&#8217;t quite as &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=4513\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Wendy Davis struggles to reclaim authenticity<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[395,1899,4603,5218],"class_list":["post-4513","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-ann-richards","tag-george-w-bush","tag-texas-democrats","tag-wendy-davis"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4513","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4513"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4513\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4513"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4513"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4513"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}