Wendy Davis to Univision: 'Really
Absurd' to Claim That I Lied
by Frances Martel 3 Feb 2014, 10:17 AM PDT
Wendy Davis is taking her campaign insisting her
life story is true to Spanish-language media. Davis appeared on Univisión's
Sunday morning news show Al Punto to discredit the reports claiming she lied
about her life story, calling them "really absurd" and saying she
felt "insulted" on behalf of other single mothers.
Davis sat down with host Jorge Ramos to
discuss the Dallas Morning News story unraveling some mistruths about her life
story. She first addressed the claim that she was a "single teen
mother"--a claim since debunked, since Davis divorced at age 21. She suggested that
she felt like a single mother "the moment when [I] became the sole caregiver,"
and that is when "the marriage is over," so "in reality"
she was single at 19 despite not being divorced. She added that she was the
"sole caregiver" for her daughter for four and a half years and lived
in poverty for many of those.
Ramos questioned her education story, as
well, noting that the Dallas Morning News story found that Davis did not work her way through law school
but relied on her husband for student loan payments. Davis claimed that the two
"jointly" took out a loan, in part due to the fact that she lost a
scholarship to community college when she got married. "My husband,"
she explained, "picked up where that left off."
Any claim that she had lied, she
reiterated, was "really absurd": "I am a young woman who had
lived in poverty, and worked and pulled myself out of that place." She
once again blamed her likely Republican opponent, Greg Abbott, for the news
story, despite no evidence finding that Abbott or his team were involved in the
publication of the report. "Greg Abbott and his team are trying to take my
story away from me," she told Ramos, "but they will never be able
to."
Ramos ended the conversation with a bit of
a softball, noting that Politico had called her "the most judged woman in America"
and asking, "Do you feel that way?" Davis
replied that she was a "strong Texas
woman" that could handle it, but said, "I feel insulted on behalf of
women like me who are working really hard to make improvements in their lives
and whose paths are being judged."
The interview initially ran on Ramos'
English-language show on Fusion TV, America, earlier this week. The Al
Punto interview was in Spanish, but you can watch the undubbed English version
below:
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Note: Wendy
Davis is the candidate for the 2014 Wendy Davis (TX)
gubernatorial campaign, a Texas Senate
senator, and was a supporter for Annie's List.
Amber A.
Mostyn is the chair for Annie's List,
and a national finance council member for Ready for Hillary.
George Soros
is the co-chair, national finance council for Ready for
Hillary, and was the chairman for the Foundation
to Promote Open Society.
Foundation
to Promote Open Society was a funder for the Aspen
Institute (think tank), and the Brookings Institution
(think tank).
Cesar R.
Conde is a trustee at the Aspen Institute (think
tank), and the president of Univision Networks at Univision Communications Inc.
Haim Saban is
an honorary trustee at the Brookings Institution
(think tank), and the chairman for Univision
Communications Inc.
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