As Wendy Davis, the Democrat’s hopeful candidate for Governor, was making excuses for fabricating facts about her life story, she said, “my language should be tighter,” as she admitted her biography had been less than truthful.
While others are focusing on misstatements about being a teen mom, her marriage and divorce, how her education was financed, living in a trailer and other “loose” facts, it was her lack of contrition that told me what kind of person she really is. Attempting to deflect criticism, she said, “I came from a place of struggle, and we can parse dates all day long,” as she accused her likely opponent Attorney General Greg Abbott and his campaign of being “out of touch” with struggling Texans.
Vogue Photography by Eric Boman
Who’s out of touch? This is the same woman who agreed to be featured in the chic Vogue magazine, a fashion and lifestyle publication aimed primarily at 40ish women, with some college, who are employed with a median income of $58,612. Vogue claims 71 per cent of its female readers spend holidays abroad and a third of them have access to two or more cars, two or more apartments, premium bank cards and a personal trainer. While I am sure many of her campaign contributors fit that profile, what about the average Texan she hopes to represent?
There’s more. Posing in a Carolina Herrera dress and Reed Krakoff pumps in the September 2013 issue of Vogue, Davis presents the image the magazine looks for in its subjects. After sipping a glass of Sancerre and nibbling on sliced organic peaches and plums with Davis, her daughters and boyfriend, author Heidi Mitchell writes about Davis’ 12-hour filibuster on SB5 and the resulting press coverage. After discussion of her family life, education, working at a Fort Worth law firm and a her political path that led to the State Senate, she tells Mitchell “I’m happy in Lululemon” while home watching TV, but loves to wear dresses by Chloe’ and Victoria Beckham and Miu Miu or Louboutin heels, a more fashion-conscious look her daughters have fostered for her in recent years.
With that background I think the average Texas voter may find her statement that Abbott, who has been in a wheelchair since his back was broken as a young man, leaving him paralyzed from the waist down, “doesn’t appreciate or understands about what Texans are facing today.”
Who’s really out of touch.
