Nothing to see here - stop picking on Wendy

[BigTex]

DMN (scared?):

The title insurance business is “all about relationships,” says Wendy Davis in her newly published memoir.

The book, Forgetting to Be Afraid, doesn’t dwell on Davis’ years as a title company executive, other than to say she built relationships for the company run by her ex-husband, Jeff Davis.

Wendy Davis did so from an advantageous perch. Her years in the title business coincided with her time as a Fort Worth City Council member, from 1999 to 2008. Her public duties ensured contact with high-powered developers and business owners, many of whom sought tax breaks from the city.

Davis was at times in a position to vote on items that affected her business — such as projects for which the Davises’ company did title work. Sometimes she recused herself, but on other occasions she did not.

http://www.dallasnews.com/news/politics ... e-work.ece

TIMELINE

Late 1980s: Davis’ husband, Jeff Davis, starts working at Safeco Land Title.

March 1997: Wendy Davis leaves the law firm Haynes and Boone.

1999: Davis begins to help her husband grow the business at Safeco.

May 18, 1999: Davis is sworn in as a Fort Worth City Council member.

April 2002: Safeco handles the title work for the $34 million sale of the RadioShack technology center to Tarrant County.

July 2002: Davis moves for the council to approve tax incentives for RadioShack in return for its investment in a new downtown headquarters.

June 1, 2004: Jeff and Wendy Davis sell Safeco to a title company chain. Wendy Davis becomes chief executive of the Fort Worth division of Republic Title of Texas.

June 8, 2004: Davis votes for tax incentives for Cabela’s to build a Fort Worth store.

June 11, 2004: Republic Title files a deed of sale for land sold to Cabela’s.

Feb. 28, 2006: Davis moves to approve tax incentives for the Presidio Hotel Group in return for its investment in a downtown hotel. The deed is filed for the $11 million hotel sale, handled by Republic Title.

[Red Oak]

I am so glad that in a few weeks I'll be shut of this goofy Ginch as my State Senator.

[Sangersteve]

Just walk a mile in her shoes, Stand up with Wendy!