State Senator Wendy Davis is expected to be the Democratic nominee for Governor in the 2014 statewide election. The Republicans have dug up an old lawsuit Davis filed against the Fort Worth Star-Telegram way back in 1997 for libeling and defaming her and causing her emotional distress. A judge granted a defense motion to dismiss the suit. Davis lost her appeal of the dismissal in 2000.
Some Republicans plan to point out that “the best candidate the Texas Democrats could find to run is a lady who admits in open court that a newspaper editorial caused her mental health to be damaged.” Others plan to call her a “thin-skinned, liberal trial lawyer who is antagonistic toward freedom of speech.”
In her lawsuit, Davis accused the newspaper of running “a series of contrived and false news stories and editorials with malicious intent” and that because of the Star-Telegram’s “defamatory and libelous” statements, she “has suffered and is continuing to suffer damages to her mental health …..”
While Davis refuses to comment on the “ugliness” of the Republicans’ campaign tactics about her mental health, her campaign spokesman, Bo Delp, dismissed the mental health issue by declaring, “That 20-year-old lawsuit used standard lawyer language.”
Standard lawyer language, according to Delp, is not to be taken seriously. In other words, standard lawyer language can be defined as nothing more than a pack of lies. Thus Wendy Davis, through her spokesman, confirms that the only difference between a lawyer and a liar is the spelling.
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