MORE WOES FOR WENDY...ETHICAL PROBLEMS !

The Dallas Morning News' Senior Political Writer Wayne Slater (DMN) reported that Davis supported legislation governing a toll road project. That would be all well and good except for the fact that the North Texas Tollway Authority hired Davis' law firm, Newby Davis, to represent them. The DMN stated, “She backed changes governing the collection of unpaid tolls that preceded an NTTA program in which law firms — including Davis’ — were chosen to carry out the collections. And as a state senator, she sought federal money for a transportation project being handled by her law firm.”

Records show that during the 2011 legislative session, Davis was billing her client for condemnation work (private property being taken from its owners for public use) on the very same day she was voting for toll-collection authority legislation that was backed by her client, the NTTA.

This is not the only example put forth by the DMN. Senator Davis’ office sent a letter to the Texas Department of Transportation (TXDOT) requesting clarification as to the qualifications necessary for a company to be certified as a minority-owned business. Deidre Delisi, former chief of the commission that oversees that department told DMN, “We got right on it” because a senator was asking for the information. Less than one week later, another Fort Worth law firm announced it had hired Sen. Davis to “assist clients in regulatory, public policy and legislative issues.” They even listed her Senate office in the contact information.

It was just a few weeks after that when Davis and her colleague Bryan Newby filed papers with the Texas Secretary of State’s office to form Newby Davis as a minority owned business. Newby is black and previously served Governor Rick Perry as general council. They indicated one of the goals of the new firm was to help NTTA with spreading legal work around Fort Worth using minority-owned businesses.

The DMN article contains many more examples of what some might call ethical issues related to the Senator and her dual roles as a legislator and private attorney. One of those is an account of her sending a letter on Texas Senate letterhead to the U.S. Transportation Secretary, Ray LaHood, requesting federal funds for an NTTA project – her law firm’s client. The project was to build a 27-mile toll road from Fort Worth to Cleburne.

The DMN provided the following timeline regarding Davis’ potentially ethically challenged actions:

• Nov. 5, 2008: Wendy Davis is elected to the Texas Senate.
• April 6, 2009: Davis opposes a North Texas Tollway Authority-backed bill to give local tollway authorities right of first refusal to build toll projects.
• Feb. 25, 2010: Davis’ Senate office asks the Texas Department of Transportation for information about qualifications for certification of minority-owned businesses for highway contracts.
• March 2, 2010: Fort Worth-based Cantey Hanger law firm announces it has hired Davis.
• March 22, 2010: Davis and Bryan Newby, a former chief of staff to Gov. Rick Perry, form a minority-owned law firm, Newby Davis.
• June 10, 2010: Davis writes to U.S. Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood seeking federal funding for the Chisholm Trail Parkway project. The law firm handling the project is Cantey Hanger.
• Feb. 1, 2011: Sen. Jane Nelson introduces a bill to cap fees charged to drivers with unpaid tolls.
• March 17, 2011: NTTA’s legal services committee approves hiring Newby Davis to do land-condemnation work for the Chisholm Trail Parkway project.
• March 23, 2011: Davis drops her version of a fee-cap bill and signs onto Nelson’s bill, which has NTTA support. The bill sets the fees regimen that would be the starting point that law firms subsequently hired by NTTA would use to seek settlements.
• March 29, 2011: The Senate approves a measure supported by NTTA to give local tollway authorities right of first refusal to build toll projects. Davis votes for it, saying it’s better than the version she opposed in 2009.
• May 27, 2011: Newby Davis begins billing NTTA for work on the Chisholm Trail project. In the Senate, Davis votes for Nelson’s fee-cap collection bill, which goes to the governor, who later signs it.
• Aug. 15, 2012: NTTA chooses Newby Davis as one of six litigation firms to collect fees and delinquent tolls.
• Aug. 30, 2012: Davis subcontracts with a Chicago collection agency to handle delinquent toll and fee settlements.

The Dallas Morning News' Senior Political Writer Wayne Slater (DMN) reported that Davis supported legislation governing a toll road project. That would be all well and good except for the fact that the North Texas Tollway Authority hired Davis' law firm, Newby Davis, to represent them. The DMN stated, “She backed changes governing the collection of unpaid tolls that preceded an NTTA program in which law firms — including Davis’ — were chosen to carry out the collections. And as a state senator, she sought federal money for a transportation project being handled by her law firm.”

Records show that during the 2011 legislative session, Davis was billing her client for condemnation work (private property being taken from its owners for public use) on the very same day she was voting for toll-collection authority legislation that was backed by her client, the NTTA.

This is not the only example put forth by the DMN. Senator Davis’ office sent a letter to the Texas Department of Transportation (TXDOT) requesting clarification as to the qualifications necessary for a company to be certified as a minority-owned business. Deidre Delisi, former chief of the commission that oversees that department told DMN, “We got right on it” because a senator was asking for the information. Less than one week later, another Fort Worth law firm announced it had hired Sen. Davis to “assist clients in regulatory, public policy and legislative issues.” They even listed her Senate office in the contact information.

It was just a few weeks after that when Davis and her colleague Bryan Newby filed papers with the Texas Secretary of State’s office to form Newby Davis as a minority owned business. Newby is black and previously served Governor Rick Perry as general council. They indicated one of the goals of the new firm was to help NTTA with spreading legal work around Fort Worth using minority-owned businesses.

The DMN article contains many more examples of what some might call ethical issues related to the Senator and her dual roles as a legislator and private attorney. One of those is an account of her sending a letter on Texas Senate letterhead to the U.S. Transportation Secretary, Ray LaHood, requesting federal funds for an NTTA project – her law firm’s client. The project was to build a 27-mile toll road from Fort Worth to Cleburne.

The DMN provided the following timeline regarding Davis’ potentially ethically challenged actions:

• Nov. 5, 2008: Wendy Davis is elected to the Texas Senate.
• April 6, 2009: Davis opposes a North Texas Tollway Authority-backed bill to give local tollway authorities right of first refusal to build toll projects.
• Feb. 25, 2010: Davis’ Senate office asks the Texas Department of Transportation for information about qualifications for certification of minority-owned businesses for highway contracts.
• March 2, 2010: Fort Worth-based Cantey Hanger law firm announces it has hired Davis.
• March 22, 2010: Davis and Bryan Newby, a former chief of staff to Gov. Rick Perry, form a minority-owned law firm, Newby Davis.
• June 10, 2010: Davis writes to U.S. Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood seeking federal funding for the Chisholm Trail Parkway project. The law firm handling the project is Cantey Hanger.
• Feb. 1, 2011: Sen. Jane Nelson introduces a bill to cap fees charged to drivers with unpaid tolls.
• March 17, 2011: NTTA’s legal services committee approves hiring Newby Davis to do land-condemnation work for the Chisholm Trail Parkway project.
• March 23, 2011: Davis drops her version of a fee-cap bill and signs onto Nelson’s bill, which has NTTA support. The bill sets the fees regimen that would be the starting point that law firms subsequently hired by NTTA would use to seek settlements.
• March 29, 2011: The Senate approves a measure supported by NTTA to give local tollway authorities right of first refusal to build toll projects. Davis votes for it, saying it’s better than the version she opposed in 2009.
• May 27, 2011: Newby Davis begins billing NTTA for work on the Chisholm Trail project. In the Senate, Davis votes for Nelson’s fee-cap collection bill, which goes to the governor, who later signs it.
• Aug. 15, 2012: NTTA chooses Newby Davis as one of six litigation firms to collect fees and delinquent tolls.
• Aug. 30, 2012: Davis subcontracts with a Chicago collection agency to handle delinquent toll and fee settlements.

Originally Posted by Whirlaway

Key word here is POTENTIALLY.

I wonder how many of those bills were submitted by Wendy Davis. I wonder how many of those hours they billed were hers.

Get it straight, Whirlyturd.

She's going to win. Abbott may not even make the race.

At a minimum she should have recused herself...............her law firm should turn down the client's work.......that is what an ethical person would do !

she must be getting stronger ... Abbott is stressed to the max, and the right starts to smear her


strange the republicans whine about democrat ethics during a Texas political campaign/race

Trendy, I am anxiously awaiting another of your famous "TRENDING" posts.

I can see it now, WISCONSIN & AMERICA ARE "TRENDING" ABBOTT!

Key word here is POTENTIALLY.

I wonder how many of those bills were submitted by Wendy Davis. I wonder how many of those hours they billed were hers.

Get it straight, Whirlyturd.

She's going to win. Abbott may not even make the race. Originally Posted by Yssup Rider

She still claims to have done nothing wrong!
We both know she is losing, and like Ann Richards before her, claims she is going to be highly ethical.
Here is what happened to Ann Richards first appointment:

She appointed then State Representative Lena Guerrero of Austin to a vacancy on the Texas Railroad Commission. The Hispanic Guerrero (1957–2008) was the first non-Anglo to serve on the commission in history. However, problems over falsification of her resume led to her resignation from the commission and defeat by the Republican Barry Williamson in the 1992 general election.

As a student at the University of Texas at Austin in the late 1970s, Guerrero became interested in politics. At the age of twenty-one in 1979, she was elected president of the Young Democrats of Texas. In 1984, at the age of twenty-five, she became the second female Hispanic to be elected to the Texas House of Representatives. She defeated five male opponents in a then Anglo-but-Democratic-majority district. No Republican contested the seat despite the landslide victory that year of Ronald W. Reagan as U.S. President.[5] Guerrero's district included parts of Central and East Austin.[3]
In 1989, Guerrero was named among the "Top 10" legislators by Texas Monthly magazine. She was cited in Newsweek and USA Today and, having left the legislature, was awarded a speaking slot at the 1992 Democratic National Convention in New York City,[6] which nominated Bill Clinton of Arkansas to oppose incumbent George Herbert Walker Bush of Texas. She was also executive director of the Texas Women's Political Caucus.[5]
Railroad commissioner

In 1991, Governor Ann W. Richards, a fellow Democrat, appointed Guerrero to fill a vacancy on the three-member Railroad Commission. Her selection was said to have symbolized Richards' hope of a "New Texas"; prior to that, the commission's members had always been white males.[6]
In 1992, Guerrero faced voters in her bid for a six-year term on the Railroad Commission. When it was revealed that Guerrero had lied about having graduated from UT, the momentum shifted heavily to her Republican opponent, attorney Barry Williamson, a native of Arkansas.
Guerrero later obtained her UT degree—she had been nineteen credits short of a bachelor's degree—and became an Austin lobbyist for Bravo Communications, representing such clients as American Telephone & Telegraph, Blue Cross, and the Tigua Indians. She helped pass a bill to allow the Tigua Indians casinos on their reservation. In defending her position, Guerrero said that the issue "is not about gambling. This is about the Indians and their right to use their land.".[4]
In the race for Railroad Commissioner, Guerrero had expected to face Carole Rylander, then a Democrat Guerrero had supported in the successful nonpartisan race for mayor of Austin in 1977. However, Rylander, later Carole Strayhorn, lost the Republican primary to Williamson. Strayhorn's second husband, Hill Rylander, as president of the UT Alumni Association, learned that Guerrero did not have the college degree that she claimed when the association planned to honor her as a "distinguished alumna".[5] Some official biographies at the time indicated Guerrero was a member of Phi Beta Kappa; she was not.[7]

she must be getting stronger ... Abbott is stressed to the max, and the right starts to smear her


... Originally Posted by CJ7

Come on guys, Wendy Davis has about as much chance of being elected as I do.

Come on guys, Wendy Davis has about as much chance of being elected as I do. Originally Posted by Jackie S

no, you have a better chance than Davis


but don't tell that to whirlie, he actually believes he's doing something destructive to a dem

Come on guys, Wendy Davis has about as much chance of being elected as I do. Originally Posted by Jackie S

Slightly better, I'd say. But, not much.

The DMN article is evidence that the GOP smear machine is notching it up a gear. They don't do that when they aren't at least a bit concerned.

DMN/Belo Corp has been carrying water for the Republicans for decades in Dallas. We have the only African-American District Attorney in Texas and it drives them completely insane. In fact, every single office of any significance in Dallas is held by a Democrat. A blue oasis in a sea of red shit.

The "ethically" challenged partners that are "Newby Davis" law firm:

Brian Newby



and Wendy Davis:



Their "areas of practice".....
Bond Financing
Public/Regulatory
Public School Law

All areas that are heavily regulated and controlled by government actions. Can you say "conflict of interest" ????

lived in Dallas county all my life ... the county I live in now is so red if one of the sob's gets a bruise they spray paint it red

Presumably you live in a "Red" County because you know it is well manged; has a great tax base (higher property values), lower taxes, better schools, and newer infrastructure.......if not, you a free to move.

Presumably you live in a "Red" County because you know it is well manged; has a great tax base (higher property values), lower taxes, better schools, and newer infrastructure.......if not, you a free to move. Originally Posted by Whirlaway

you're free to kiss my Texas ass

you're free to kiss my Texas ass Originally Posted by CJ7

+100,000,000,000,000