GOP gubernatorial front-runner Greg Abbott attacked chief Democratic rival Wendy Davis — though not by name — at a boisterous anti-abortion rally at the Texas Capitol on Saturday.
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The Brief: Jan. 24, 2014
The story of Steve Stockman is rapidly turning from that of a Tea Party-fueled challenge to the GOP establishment to a headline ripped from a milk carton — as in, no one seems to know where the Clear Lake congressman is.
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The Brief: Jan. 23, 2014
The Washington Post’s Chris Cillizza has put a different frame on the Wendy Davis storyline from this week.
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The Brief: Jan. 22, 2014
The fallout continues from the Sunday story in The Dallas Morning News on discrepancies in Wendy Davis’ accounting of her early life.
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Texas School Finance Trial Restarts, With a Political Backdrop
As the Texas school finance trial reopens Tuesday, it has become a political football in the state’s gubernatorial contest. State Sen. Wendy Davis’ campaign has lobbed attacks at Attorney General Greg Abbott based on his role in the litigation.
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Karin Johanson: The TT Interview
The campaign manager for state Sen. Wendy Davis on criticism that Davis blurred key details of her past, whether Davis will campaign with President Obama and whether Davis is running away from the abortion issue.
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The Brief: Jan. 21, 2014
The focus on Tuesday returns to District Judge John Dietz’s courtroom, where the next chapter in the legal challenge to the state’s school finance system commences.
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The Brief: Jan. 20, 2014
Wendy Davis’ life story is once again under scrutiny, this time after a Sunday piece by The Dallas Morning News’ Wayne Slater.
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Slap Fight in Governor’s Race Over Fundraising
Nobody expected Republican Greg Abbott and Democrat Wendy Davis to agree on big policy issues. But this week, after releasing their fundraising reports, it became clear they can’t agree about how to count, either.
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The Brief: Jan. 17, 2014
Texas will continue to be the big winner in the redistribution of the nation’s population westward and southward. And with that go the political spoils.
