AG @GregAbbott_TX stands up against lesbian Houston Mayor in briefs http://t.co/ePBYDtFmEB #txlege #marriage #txcot #onemanonewoman
— Texas Values (@txvalues) January 21, 2014
Update: Joe the Pleb at Burnt Orange Report started it.
AG @GregAbbott_TX stands up against lesbian Houston Mayor in briefs http://t.co/ePBYDtFmEB #txlege #marriage #txcot #onemanonewoman
— Texas Values (@txvalues) January 21, 2014
Will all of this have any longterm impact - positive or negative (because it appears to be energizing both supporters and detractors) - on Davis' chances of becoming governor?
A few confessions today.
I'm not a fifth-generation Texan, as I've long claimed. My paternal grandmother informed me awhile back that she believes I'm sixth-generation on her side.
I didn't correct the record because I didn't want dueling claims out there. I regret the error.
When doctors' forms ask the dates of my various surgical procedures, I sometimes just guess. I regret the error.
In a June 2009 column, I wrote that, after my father got laid off when I was a girl, we "lost our house." My mother later explained we sold the house to avoid losing it. Figuratively, the claim was still true from my perspective. One day, we had our own house with a big backyard. Next, we were squeezed into an apartment. Still, I regret the error.
Coming from me, a humble newspaper columnist, you might accept all of the above as innocent inaccuracies that have caused no harm.
Coming from a politician running for, say, governor, they'd be fodder for attack ads and angry blog posts, proof at long last that I was a lying, scheming, spineless climber who would stop at nothing to win higher office. Conflicting genealogical claims would lead some to doubt my Texan heritage altogether. False dates on medical reports would show a plot to deceive voters about my health and physical ability to carry out the job. Wrongly implying that my family had endured foreclosure would be a biographical embellishment shamefully devised to appeal to working-class Texans.