If I were asked to describe the campaign of Wendy Davis in one word, it’d be “publicity.” Rather than caring about what will improve the state of Texas, Wendy Davis focuses on attention grabbers, or how a headline will look on Buzzfeed or the Huffington Post.
Wendy Davis isn’t running to help the citizens of Texas or to improve our state; she is solely running to get her name out there as well as to appease the national Democratic Party. This is evident in her campaign’s funding. Davis looks to nationwide organizations and groups for her funding because organizations don’t pay much attention to what she actually says and these organizations see her as someone who will change the Democratic Party in Texas.
Another piece of evidence to back up my claim about Davis not caring about Texas itself is how she wants to change our economy. Davis previously stated she wants to raise corporate taxes. Texas attracts many businesses to headquarter here because of its low corporate taxes, and this brings more jobs to Texas because these corporations then hire Texans to work for them. For example, Toyota moved its US Headquarters from Southern California to Plano in May of this year because of our low corporate taxes, giving many Texans jobs. What Davis clearly doesn’t understand is that raising corporate taxes would result in an exodus of these large businesses, drastically hurting Texas’ job growth.
Davis also will hurt Texas’ booming oil industry if elected. Nearly 550,000 jobs have been created in Texas in the oil and energy industry alone since 2012. By the end of this year, Texas is on pace to produce more oil than Kuwait, Iraq, Venezuela, and Mexico.
Wendy Davis supports the Obama Administration’s EPA (Environmental Protection Agency) regulations on the state’s oil industry. Davis also voted against Senate Bill 875, a bill preventing the Obama Administration from hindering our energy production. Luckily for Texans, the bill was supported by over 90% of Texas legislators.
Taking these things into account, I have this question for Davis and any supporter of hers: “Why impose these taxes and regulations on one of the few states not in debt and one of the only states with an unemployment rate lower than the national average?”
The only logical answer to this question is that Davis is clearly misguided on her economic policies and is only famous today because she filibustered an abortion law, gaining her recognition by President Obama as well as Democrats nationwide. On June 25, 2013, Davis stood in front of the Texas Senate for several hours to reject Senate Bill 5, a bill that proposed banning abortions after 20 weeks of pregnancy. This bill requires abortion clinics to have the same standards as surgical clinics and requires doctors who perform abortions to have admitting privileges at nearby hospitals.
To put things in perspective, a fetus at 20 weeks weighs approximately 10 ounces and is about 10 inches head to heel. This is a little under halfway into a pregnancy. Babies at 20 weeks are capable of swallowing and are fully formed. The fact that anyone thinks that an abortion of a baby of this size is acceptable in anyway is disturbing.
Davis has consistently been on the wrong side of the issues that matter most to Texans: economic growth, oil production, jobs, taxes, gun rights, and abortion, evident in her speeches and overall policies on each of these matters.
Hopefully, for current and for future Texans, Wendy Davis’ 15 minutes of fame will be up on Wednesday, November 5th.
Sources
Time Magazine: “Six Things You Didn’t Know from Texas Oil Boom” November 5, 2013
Fuelfix.com: “Fuel Fix: Texas Oil and Gas Jobs Flourished in 2012” April 12, 2013
Texas Senate Bill 5
The Quint V Boenker Preemie Survival Foundation
