Wendy Davis and Greg Abbott light up TV spots with vitriolic charges about ethics and money

[TexasTowelie]

Wendy Davis and Greg Abbott are accusing each other of ethics problems in campaign ads that underscore the increasingly vitriolic tone of the governor’s race. With just weeks before the November election, Davis has prepared a web ad denouncing Abbott for taking $250,000 from the chairman of a hospital that employed a problem doctor, then siding with the hospital against victims. The Abbott camp is airing a spot that accused Davis of voting as a member of the Fort Worth City Council to give tax breaks to businesses in property deals involving her title company.

The Davis hospital ad is about a neurosurgeon at Baylor Regional Medical Center in Plano whose patients died or were maimed. It says after he got contributions from hospital board chairman Drayton McLane, Abbott intervened in three federal cases on the hospital’s side. Abbott’s campaign says he’s defending state law as a matter of principle. The ad repeats a Davis’ campaign theme that Abbott used his authority as attorney general to protect powerful insiders at the expense of ordinary Texans. Abbott says in the hospital case, he was just defending state law. McLane says he didn’t know about the case before contributing to Abbott’s governor’s race and has no financial interest in the hospital.

The campaign ad by Abbott allies accuses Davis of using her position as a member of the city council in Fort Worth to personally benefit. The spot features the sound of a siren and kinetic images of newspaper headlines in raising questions about Davis’ business dealings.

Davis appears to have followed Fort Worth’s ethics policy in voting on business incentives for companys doing business with the title company established by her ex-husband. However, the city attorney at the time did caution her to consider avoiding measures where there was any question “to guard against even the appearance of impropriety.”

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[font color=green]If you want to see Abbott's ad then go to the link. I'm not giving it any air time on DU.[/font]

[TexasTowelie]

1. The quote from the chairmon of the hospital has to be complete rubbish.

There are headlines in the Dallas Morning News and he doesn't know that one of the surgeons at the hospital is getting sued for malpractice?

[DhhD]

2. Abbott is getting desperate. Someone needs to start calling him out on lies and absurdities like

invading Mexico in which even Faux Noise interviewers though his statements to be over the top.