{"id":7715,"date":"2015-01-03T02:05:23","date_gmt":"2015-01-03T02:05:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=7715"},"modified":"2015-01-03T02:05:23","modified_gmt":"2015-01-03T02:05:23","slug":"daviss-future-in-texas-is-clouded-at-best","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=7715","title":{"rendered":"Davis's political future is clouded … at best"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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This is tough for a Texas liberal such as yours truly to acknowledge, but a well-known political observer is likely correct about Wendy Davis’s future in state politics.<\/p>\n

She doesn’t appear to have one.<\/p>\n

http:\/\/www.texasmonthly.com\/burka-blog\/wendy-daviss-future<\/p>\n

Texas Monthly blogger Paul Burka notes in a brief post that Davis, a Democrat,\u00a0managed to parlay a thought-to-be-competitive governor’s race in 2014 into a rout — for the Republican, Gov.-elect Greg Abbott.<\/p>\n

Her loss in the governor’s race was worse than the percentage Tony Sanchez rang up against Rick Perry in 2002. Hey, whatever happened to Sanchez?<\/p>\n

Burka said Davis is making some noise about seeking another public office. Where? Doing what?<\/p>\n

I’m not prone to piling on here, but Davis ought to take a bit of a break from seeking to serve in some public capacity. She is a lawyer, after all, and she can kick-start a private practice in Tarrant County.<\/p>\n

I was one of those Texans who had hope that Davis at least could make a race of the contest for governor. She entered the campaign with the wind at her back. She then managed to do a 180 and turned a tailwind into a headwind. Her campaign never got traction.<\/p>\n

She lost the contest by 20-some percentage points.<\/p>\n

Should she run again? No, Wendy. No!<\/p>\n

At least not for a while.<\/p>\n

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This is tough for a Texas liberal such as yours truly to acknowledge, but a well-known political observer is likely correct about Wendy Davis’s future in state politics. She doesn’t appear to have one. http:\/\/www.texasmonthly.com\/burka-blog\/wendy-daviss-future Texas Monthly blogger Paul Burka notes in a brief post that Davis, a Democrat,\u00a0managed to parlay a thought-to-be-competitive governor’s race … Continue reading Davis's political future is clouded … at best<\/span> →<\/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,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[14,18],"tags":[65,2006,3516,4508,4629,4661,5218],"class_list":["post-7715","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-political-news","category-state-news","tag-2014-campaign","tag-greg-abbott","tag-paul-burka","tag-tarrant-county","tag-texas-governors-office","tag-texas-monthly","tag-wendy-davis"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7715","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=7715"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7715\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7715"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7715"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7715"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}