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Related: About this forumDavis 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. Its not clear how much the company made in the transaction.
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[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]
GTurck
(826 posts)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)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.
DhhD
(4,695 posts)Gothmog
(144,005 posts)He has given actual cash favors to his donors