Political Gabfest - The Political Gabfest: Texas Q&A
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🗓️ 26 April 2014
⏱️ 12 minutes
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The Q&A session from our live Austin, Texas, show with Emily Bazelon, John Dickerson, and David Plotz, joined by the Texas Tribune's Reeve Hamiltion, Emily Ramshaw, and Ross Ramsey.
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| 0:00.0 | We have our Texas Terrune colleagues here. We may not get to all your questions, just a warning. |
| 0:05.1 | So be brief, and we'll get to more of them. |
| 0:07.3 | I'm Megan Moore, and my question is really quick, actually, and surprisingly, it's for the Texas |
| 0:11.5 | Tribune and not for Gab Fest, which I listen to y'all and not them. Sorry. |
| 0:16.7 | But y'all talked about a campaign of Wendy Davis and Greg Abbott, but I haven't seen either of them. And so I was wondering, where are they campaigning and what are they doing to actually campaign that you all are talking about? Well, you can see them around the state, and if you watch their websites, you can see where they're going to be. You can watch the Texas Tribune and see live streams and things of their speeches and stuff, it'll |
| 0:38.2 | accelerate as they get to September, October, November, but they're out there. |
| 0:42.5 | So right now you have to be actively interested. |
| 0:46.5 | Right. Well, and right now, right now both of the campaigns are in what we, you know, we sometimes |
| 0:51.4 | call the finance primary. Right now, they're about raising the money. |
| 0:54.8 | They're going to want to do all the advertising |
| 0:57.1 | that they're going to do to you in October and November. |
| 1:01.0 | Greg Abbott already has $30 million. |
| 1:02.5 | Clearly not enough. |
| 1:04.1 | Wendy Davis has about $12 million. |
| 1:05.7 | Clearly not enough. |
| 1:07.1 | So the siege is coming. |
| 1:09.8 | There is a man in a pandemask who seems like he's about to ask us a question. |
| 1:14.9 | My question is actually for Emily Bazelon. |
| 1:19.2 | We're having a little trouble unfortunately hearing your question. |
| 1:22.7 | We're sorry. Thank you. |
| 1:24.0 | My question is for Emily Bazelon. |
| 1:27.0 | Given the media's recent uptake of the stories of people living in states who are dying |
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