Remember Wendy Davis? She was the Democratic gubernatorial candidate in Texas who rose to fame standing for 11 hours to protest a 20-week (five month) abortion ban, and who lost to Greg Abbott by more than 20 points.
Well, Rolling Stone, apparently fresh out of false rapes to report, decided to track down the failed candidate to "catch up" and see what she's been doing in the 10 months since her defeat. The answer? Not much.
She's in the "planning stages" of maybe possibly thinking about potentially one day soon launching what she calls a "women's equality initiative."
"[W]hen I came out of the gubernatorial campaign, I reflected on, 'What do I want to do now?' because this is the first time in 16 years that I haven't been in public office," Davis said.
It's been 10 months since the gubernatorial campaign ended.
Rolling Stone asked her about sexism, because any criticism or name-calling lodged at a female candidate is automatically sexist, even when similar approaches are taken toward male candidates (Abortion Barbie vs. Mark Uterus). But she didn't take the bait. She instead suggested she needed to teach women who might want to run for office that it's okay to lose.
"Sometimes we're going to. We've got to hop right back up and put ourselves out there again, and know that losing isn't the worst thing in the world," Davis said. "And honestly I hope to do that at some point."
Pressed on the issue of running again, Davis reiterated: "I do hope to run again," but, she has "no particular path in mind at this point." She is "simply keeping myself open for opportunities that make sense."
Her best bet, besides trying to run for the state senate again, might be to run for the House of Representatives. Her city council district has some overlap with Rep. Marc Veasey's congressional district. Even so, he's an elected Democrat, but he shows no signs of retirement and he did push for her to be the keynote speaker at the 2016 Democratic National Convention.
