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No proof Wendy Davis raised money for a socialist or socialist group

By W. Gardner Selby
May 9, 2014

Wendy Davis just spoke at an annual campaign fundraiser for a liberal Democratic U.S. House member from Chicago.

But similar claims lofted separately by Greg Abbott and David Dewhurst that the House member, Jan Schakowsky, is also a member of a socialist group or was raising money for a socialist group didn’t hold up.

They came out so unsupported, we lit matches back to back.

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