Wow, that guy is nuts.
Kincannon has taken it upon himself to play the role of the GOP’s Troll-In-Chief. He says outrageous and horrible and vile things on Twitter on an hourly basis.
Coked out whore, ya say? Even if true I don’t think that will get much traction here. Now if she ate at Applebee’s or talked loudly on her cell phone in public places we’ve got a real scandal.
Looked Kincannon up on the intertubes, got literally Google vomit. No, for real, its all over the fucking keyboard…
He apparently holds no positions of any significance. He is President of the Republican National Lawyers Association. I swear, I’m not making that up.
Not now, no, but he is a former Executive Director of the South Carolina Republican Party. Also, be careful of his Wikipedia article…the Wikerati appear to suspect that a heavy contributor to that page is Kincannon himself.
Does the Republican National Lawyers Association have conventions? And wondering, is there a good way to take a thousand doses of Ecstasy and make maybe like an aerosol bomb? Guess those are for General Questions…
Not just White- I thought the Democrats had a decent chance the year they ran Ron Kirk for Senate, Tony Sanchez for governor and John Sharp for lieutenant governor. Shoot, in many states, those guys could have run plausibly as Republicans.
EVENTUALLY, if the sleeping giant of the Mexican vote ever comes to life, the Democrats can win again. But Wendy Davis sure isn’t the candidate to excite them.
They have a convention-ish thing in March. They only have 2500 members out of 1.2 million licensed US attorneys (even though they allow law students to join) so despite the name they’re presumably not a Very Big Deal.
More on Wendy Davis’s plans for improving Texas education:
Meanwhile, Greg Abbott continues his fell work:
Even if Wendy does not get in this time, more Texans will realize just how bad the Republicans have been for our state.
Oh, about all that “concern” for the votes of Texas suburban women: After beating Aggie Clayton Williams (he of rape jokes & other uncouth behavior), Ann Richards said he reminded many Texas women of their first husbands…
She gave up custody of her child during the divorce from her second husband. She divorced her first husband when she was 21. By the time she got divorced from her second husband, her child from her first marriage was 21.
The claim of infidelity was discussed in the article.
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In his initial divorce filing, Jeff Davis said the marriage had failed, citing adultery on her part and conflicts that the couple could not overcome. The final court decree makes no mention of infidelity, granting the divorce solely “on the ground of insupportability.”
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I guess we’ll see. I don’t think that demographic is going to relate much to the idea of not even seeking joint custody.
I’m not decrying her. I’m saying I think it will hurt her chances with a demographic group that she was counting on. I think I used the phrase “right or wrong”. I think her true personal narrative is compelling; I don’t really understand why she felt the need to exaggerate it.
I have a different mindset than you, obviously. To me, the Dallas Morning News reporter seems to be doing the job a good reporter should do. I think we should accurately report the news. That’s all I see him doing.
I misunderstood your first few posts then. I appreciate the clarification and I apologize for mis-characterizing your remarks and your position.
It appears this is not accurate:
From The New York Times
It looks like the Dallas Morning News got some details wrong.
Her daughters released statements refuting these claims as well. Follow the link for the text of both letters, but it makes it clear the accusations are untrue.
This makes me repeat my misgivings from earlier in the thread:
If the Dallas Morning News got it wrong than so did Davis herself.
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“My girls wanted to stay in their family home,’’ she said. “I did feel like as the non-custodial parent that that was my obligation.”
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The Wendy Davis Story (And Why It’s A Good Example of What Collaborative Law Can Do)
I think what’s going on here is that people, including Davis, are responding to different claims and confusing them.
The Dallas Morning News article does not make claims like that Davis abandoned her children when she went to Harvard. Other people have made that claim. She defends herself against that claim. The Dallas Morning News article does say that she gave custody of her child was given to her husband in the divorce.
Now, I guess I don’t know why she would call herself a noncustodial parent while later saying she never gave up or lost custody. Those statements seem to directly conflict with each other. Perhaps she still needs to learn to make her language tighter.
From your link with bolding added by me:
Maybe I’m splitting hairs but to me there is a difference between saying someone gave up custody or lost custody of a child and saying their spouse had primary custody of the child. One sounds more like abandonment or being unfit and the other doesn’t necessarily go down that road.
I don’t think it’s too controversial to say that courts are generally biased in favor of mothers. For a mother to not be awarded at least joint custody, I think most people would say that would typically involve them having an issue (drugs or something) or that they voluntarily gave up custody.
However, all we can do is speculate. I think she gives conflicting statements at times. I think it is because her life story isn’t really as great as what she’s been portraying it to be. I think her life story is still pretty good and that there’s nothing in there that should be looked at too negatively. However, she’s been able to raise a lot of money nationally because she’s been running on an inflated story.
Not a 17-year old kid who continued living in the family home. It’s pretty much a no-brainer that if at all possible, you leave a kid in their last year or two of high school where they are.
You are talking about which parent has physical custody if the child. Legal custody is an entirely different issue. Having joint custody doesn’t at all mean that the child would be physically living with that parent. Joint custody is the standard in Texas. A mother not having joint custody means she either didn’t want it or wasn’t fit.