From the Burnt Orange Report:
Abbott’s campaign has resorted to busing supporters to the Rio Grande Valley to show faux-support for the Republican in the region. He’s even paying for their lodging! Wendy Davis’s campaign released the following email image from an organizer looking to send recruits to the Valley:
(image transcribed)
Hi!
We are leaving Friday, September 19 at 10:30 am for the valley. The campaign is providing transportation and lodging. We are attending the debate watch party on Friday. On Saturday and Sunday we will be block walking and then coming home on Sunday!
We'd love to have you come with us! We are also doing some block walking on September 6 here in San Antonio and phone banking daily if you'd like to attend.
Feel free to call me if you'd like more info.
Thanks,
Justin Clark
Bexar County Field Rep
Texans for Abbott
http://www.burntorangereport.com/...
Yikes. I'm starting to get the feeling that Abbott's support in Texas is weaker than the public has been led to believe.
The debate is tonight at 6pm central time, and can be live streamed on Wendy Davis' website:
http://www.wendydavistexas.com
It will also be played on CSPAN at 9pm central, and on NPR at 7pm central.
Update 1:
From the comments, nomandates has a better link for info on how to watch tonight's debate:
http://action.wendydavistexas.com/...
She also tells us:
Twitter hashtags tonight are #TexasDebates and #TeamWendy.
Update 2 - 9:58pm ET:
The debate is now over and nomandates has this wrap-up:
Wendy Davis Dominates Greg Abbott (4+ / 0-)
In The First Texas Gubernatorial Debate
This is a thorough recap of the debate for those who missed it:
Greg Abbott started to squirm when he was asked about his comments calling the Rio Grande Valley to a third world country. Abbott tried to rewrite history and claim that he was talking about the entire state, when media reports contradict his claims. At the quarter point of the debate, it is easy to see why Abbott is not performing as well of other Republicans in the polls. He is a very underwhelming candidate.
Just a bit more, but go read it:
In the portion of the debate where the candidates could question each other, Greg Abbott asked Davis if she regretted voting for Obama. Davis answered that she is busy running for governor. She ignored his question and used it to discuss her vision of what the governor should be doing. (She didn’t answer the question.)
Davis asked Abbott about the state funding system being ruled unconstitutional. Davis asked Abbott if he will drop his appeals and appropriately fund the schools. Abbott tried to blame Davis for his unwillingness to settle the lawsuit. Davis got fired up and told Abbott that what he is doing is wrong.
http://www.politicususa.com/...
Update 3:
Also from the comments, oldmaestro gives this review of the debate:
OMG! OMG! OMG! Wendy was AMAZING! (6+ / 0-)
In the answer to her first question, she said that Abbott had campaigned with an admitted child molester. She was talking about Ted Nugent, of course!
Then, at the beginning of the second half of the debate, the candidates got to ask each other one question. Abbott's question to Wendy: "Do you regret voting for Barack Obama?" [Are you F*CKING KIDDING ME?!] She literally busted out laughing at him! Then she proceeded, in her two-minute answer, to tear him a new one. It was a thing of beauty.
Earlier this year, Abbott had said that the Rio Grande Valley was like a third world country. Since tonight's debate was held in the RGV, Wendy hammered him with that over and over again. In one of his answers, he tried to say that he wasn't talking about the RGV specifically when he said that, but he was so inarticulate that his answer didn't make any sense.
Wendy just mopped the floor with Abbott. Before tonight's debate, I predicted that Abbott would be wired for sound, just like Dubya was in the 2000 and 2004 debates. But I don't think he was. One would expect that somebody who had somebody talking in their ear would be able to at least occasionally organize a few words into a few sentences that made sense. Abbott failed on that count, and on all others, too.
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