GENERAL ELECTION INFORMATION:

Early Voting: Oct. 20-31, 2008

Election Day: Nov. 4, 2008

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WENDY DAVIS:  A REAL VOICE IN AUSTIN

Welcome to the Wendy Davis for State Senate website.  Wendy Davis is running for this office because Fort Worth needs a real voice in Austin.  Please take a look around and visit often.  We will be adding new material regularly.

LATEST NEWS:  Davis to Challenge Brimer for State Senate

Wendy Davis and supporters at her announcement party in Fort Worth

FORT WORTH, TX, December 3, 2007 - Former five-term City Councilwoman Wendy Davis today announced her candidacy to represent Texas' 10th state Senate district.  She is challenging incumbent Senator Kim Brimer, a Republican who has been in Austin for 19 years.  After filing her petition in the morning, the first day allowed by law, Davis held a midday rally with supporters in Fort Worth.

“I'm running for state Senate because it is clear to me that no one is standing up for us in Austin,” Davis said in her remarks.  “Year after year, session after session, our leaders have hemmed and hawed in the face of skyrocketing utility rates, a transportation crisis and serious economic development challenges.  We need new ideas and new energy to meet these challenges and I stand ready to deliver.”

Wendy Davis is an attorney and former City Council member who has lived in Tarrant County her whole life.  She, her sister and two brothers were raised by their mother in Richland Hills, and at age 14 Wendy started working to help out the family.  After high school she attended Tarrant County Community College and then, through a combination of hard work and scholarships, Texas Christian University.  In 1990, Davis became the first person in her family to graduate from college, and in 1993 she went on to graduate with honors from Harvard Law School. 

Wendy is currently the CEO of Republic Title's local division.  While serving on the Fort Worth City Council, Wendy represented the downtown area, the Medical District and the Texas Christian University area, as well as several neighborhoods on the city's south side.  Davis has been at the helm of numerous public/private partnerships which have revitalized neighborhoods while minimizing the cost to taxpayers.  Examples include the Montgomery Ward building, the Magnolia commercial corridor and the Medical District.  

“Kim Brimer has been in Austin for 19 long years,” Davis said.  “I believe Texas must do better, I believe Texas can do better and I know Texas deserves better.”