Annie’s List sent out the following email last week:
We’ve had it with Rick Perry.
First he added insulting anti-choice legislation to the Special Session agenda while ignoring funding for our schools.
Then he did the unthinkable–vetoing the Texas Lilly Ledbetter Bill.
Perry has it in for Texas women. He’s waging war on our right to equal pay for equal work and access to reproductive healthcare. And we’re not going to take it anymore.
Here at Annie’s List, we’re officially putting Rick Perry on notice.
Two years ago, we created the Statewide Opportunity Fund for just this purpose–to set aside a war chest for the first Democratic woman ready to run statewide, and to make a significant impact in her campaign.
Help us elect Perry’s replacement—give to the Statewide Opportunity Fund to put a woman in the Governor’s Mansion.
End Rick Perry’s reign of anti-woman extremism, and defeat his shameful policies for good.
Give to Annie’s List today and let us know you’re ready to elect the next woman Governor of Texas to send Perry packing.
BOR has a question about that.
That brings to question: can we make that happen in 2014? One has to wonder who Annie’s List has in mind. The most notable female Democrats in Texas are State Senator Wendy Davis and Houston Mayor Annise Parker, but both have indicated that they will not run statewide, focusing on reelection, instead.
Annie’s List’s Communications Director Mitra Salasel told me that due to the organization’s past successes, “we have our eye on a long list of women that would be fantastic contenders.”
Annie’s List’s Statewide Opportunity Fund was created two years ago, and the organization is hoping to build it with this campaign. Salasel told me that any conversation about future Democratic leaders of the state must include our great women leaders. That will certainly be welcomed in the future, and as with a barren ticket for 2014, it would be welcomed with the utmost excitement just right now.
After Sen. Wendy Davis‘ epic filibuster yesterday, I think we know who just about everyone would like to see take a shot at it. As of last report, however, she was planning to run for re-election in SD10 next year. Who knows what happens now, but it might be nice to have a contingency plan in case Sen. Davis decides to stay where she is. As such, I have a question: Has anyone talked to Cecile Richards lately? I don’t know how much of that “long list of women” is just marketing, but unless Sen. Davis changes her mind about running for re-election next year, any such list really ought to begin with Cecile. She’s even right here in Austin. (There is a Draft Wendy movement out there, but you know how these things tend to go.) At this point, just getting someone to say she’s thinking about a run would be a nice boost and a welcome distraction from the seemingly endless list of Republicans who are jockeying for one statewide office or another. Lord knows, there will be no better time to harness all the energy Sen. Davis created than right now. Is there anybody out there? It sure would be good to know.
Texas women are exercising their reproductive rights to produce a Republican woman to run against Wendy “Occupy Austin” Davis. After all, there’s no better time than now to harness all the energy Sen. Davis created. Can’t wait for the Q2 fundraising details to be published…
Pfffft. Once a fetus becomes a child the GOP has no use for it. They’ll have to borrow Romney’s Binders Full of Women.
Pfffft. The Q2 fundraising totals for OFA will be good to comb through. That WAS the objective, wasn’t it?