re: #170 darthstar

Leading with the image of the wheelchair was a big mistake for the Davis campaign to allow any sympathy room to Abbott. He actually is a perfect example of the ‘I got mine, screw you’ GOP ideal.

The ad argues that Abbott successfully sued for his 1984 injury, but later as a Texas Supreme Court justice and state attorney general opposed similar efforts from other people suing hospitals and corporations.

“Abbott argued a woman whose leg was amputated was not disabled because she had an artificial limb,” the narrator says. “He ruled against a rape victim who sued a corporation for failing to do a background check on a sexual predator. He sided with a hospital that failed to stop a dangerous surgeon who paralyzed patients.”

Abbott’s use of a wheelchair has been featured prominently in some of his own ads — including a biographical spot where he says he rolled up a parking garage’s ramps to strengthen his arm after a tree fell on him in 1984, leaving him partially paralyzed. In another, he says, “a guy in a wheelchair can move faster than traffic on some roads in Texas” as he touts a transportation funding plan.
http://www.cnn.com/2014/10/10/politics/wendy-davis-wheelchair-ad/index.html