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TexasTowelie

(111,313 posts)
Mon Sep 15, 2014, 04:03 AM Sep 2014

Davis denies conflicts in council, business work

DALLAS (AP) — As a city councilwoman in Fort Worth, Democratic gubernatorial candidate Wendy Davis did not always recuse herself from votes that potentially overlapped with her private business interests, according to a newspaper investigation published Sunday.

The Dallas Morning News reported that Davis voted in a small number of instances on bills affecting companies that acquired title insurance from companies she owned or for which she worked.

In one 2006 case, she joined a unanimous vote to approve $21.5 million in tax incentives for developers of a downtown Fort Worth hotel. By then, Wendy and Jeff Davis had sold their title insurance company to a national chain. As part of the deal, she was named chief executive of the Fort Worth division of a chain affiliate, called Republic Title of Texas.

Republic Title of Texas was listed on the deed transferring the hotel to a California-based company. It’s not clear how much the company made in the transaction.

Read more: http://lubbockonline.com/filed-online/2014-09-14/davis-denies-conflicts-council-business-work#comment-348136

[font color=green]This article is a condensed version of what appeared in The Dallas Morning News on Sunday. I posted related material in the Texas Group on Sunday night/Monday morning.[/font]

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Davis denies conflicts in council, business work (Original Post) TexasTowelie Sep 2014 OP
The claws...... GTurck Sep 2014 #1
When she's explaining, she's losing PDittie Sep 2014 #2
Agreed. It was an unanimous vote, No problem to site. n/t DhhD Sep 2014 #3
Does Greg really want to play this game Gothmog Sep 2014 #4

GTurck

(826 posts)
1. The claws......
Mon Sep 15, 2014, 09:02 AM
Sep 2014

are coming out. Wendy Davis is just behind Abbott in the polls so making her dirty will be the order of the day. Fact is this sort of thing goes right over the heads of most of us who need to vote for her. Soon they will have to find sex or substance abuse to smear with. You heard it here first.

PDittie

(8,322 posts)
2. When she's explaining, she's losing
Mon Sep 15, 2014, 09:10 AM
Sep 2014

I wish she would not feel compelled to explain things like this. It's simply unnecessary.

You don't see Greg Abbott explaining any of the allegations of his questionable ethical dilemmas, do you?

It's a time-tested Rovian strategy of going after your opponent's greatest strength in comparison to one's own most severe weakness. See: Swift Boat Veterans for Truth.

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