Back to issues advocacy, which in this case is a fine thing.
Sen. Wendy Davis
Wendy Davis, whose fight against tighter abortion restrictions catapulted her into the national spotlight and an ill-fated race for governor, said Monday she is planning a national initiative on gender equality.
“My hope is to supplement the work of organizations that are striving to create equal opportunities for women,” Davis said via text. She confirmed she is “fine tuning details” of an initiative aimed at “fostering positive momentum toward the gender equality movement,” but said it was too early to talk specifics.
Davis has given speeches at venues such as Princeton University and the University of California in Berkeley since her campaign ended and is set Tuesday to give a speech sponsored by the John Ben Shepperd Public Leadership Institute at the University of Texas of the Permian Basin in Midland. The Odessa American, in previewing that West Texas speech, first reported that Davis was creating an initiative to advance gender equality nationally.
“I hope to garner a cohesive force of women who can advance gender equality in a myriad of ways, whether it’s pay equity, (or) access to reproductive rights, and pull together women from all walks of life, all generations, all races, to use our power at the ballot box and elsewhere to drive change,” Davis told the newspaper. “There are too many women right now who are staying out of the conversation, and if we joined it collectively, we could drive the conversation.”
The rest of the story is about various talking heads’ opinions of Wendy Davis, a subject in which I have no interest. I think we’re still a little too close to last November to talk about any of that in a reasoned fashion, so let’s just skip it. What she’s doing here is good work and I’m glad she’s doing it. Lord knows, there are far less dignified things that former legislators wind up doing. Let’s just leave it at that for now.