New Wendy Davis ad is sure to attract the attention of female voters in Texas.

This from Politicususa:  

Abbott has been claiming that he loves women, after all he married one and has a daughter, for as long as Davis has been using his record as a Republican AG to prove otherwise. But last Thursday she launched an ad against him charging that as a Supreme Court justice, he sided with a vacuum cleaner manufacturer against a woman raped by a salesman in her home. 

In his 1998 dissent, Abbott found that a company selling vacuum cleaners door-to-door “had no responsibility” in the hiring of a salesman who raped a customer.

This of course elicited an angry response from the Abbott camp:

“No one has a stronger record fighting the heinous crime of sexual assault than Greg Abbott,” Chasse continued. “Not only did he create dedicated units to arrest and prosecute sex offenders and protect women and children from assault, he’s responsible for putting more offenders in jail than all of his predecessors combined. In the case referenced in Sen. Davis’ despicable ad, Greg Abbott’s decision left intact the liability against the sex offender and his employer. No amount of desperate distortion attempts or token ad buys by Sen. Davis can change the facts of Greg Abbott’s record of fighting for Texans.” 

" No amount of desperate distortion attempts or token ad buys by Sen. Davis can change the facts of Greg Abbott’s record of fighting for Texans.” Well unless they're Texas WOMEN of course.

Politifact did a little checking and found that the ad was "mostly true." Quibbling only with the fact that Abbott felt that it was up to the distributors of Kirby vacuums to perform background checks to keep their customers safe, instead of the manufacturer themselves.

This was his dissent:

"Failure to require background checks of potential dealers relates to who is a dealer, not where the dealer works," Abbott wrote. "As a result, the requisite relation between the control retained and the alleged injury is missing. Because the Court holds to the contrary, I dissent."

Maybe it's just me, but if a woman opens the door becasue she trusts the name "Kirby vacuum cleaners" then it would seem to me that the company has a duty to ensure that such trust is justified.

I think this ad is a big win for Wendy Davis, and I also think that the women of Texas are going to think so as well.