it felt like it had just gotten away from me. - the best thing about wendy davis fiasco is this. it proves that you can still call a whore a whore. - jesus. - feminazis ain t won yet, my friends. - and then one day, it s just over. it s just gone. - republican greg abbott blew out democrat wendy davis. - let s hear from wendy davis now. - and we will endure until our efforts realize the state that we envision. [audience cheering] makes me cry all over again. [chuckles] and i don t begrudge greg abbott his win whatsoever, but there were a couple of levels that were deeply, deeply disappointing. one was we continued to see an outright assault
- and it was called on germaneness on an issue that was absolutely, without question, germane. that s what i m clearly talking about, is the impact of this particular bill. i think it s perfectly reasonable to talk about it in the context of what women in texas today will face if this provision goes in place. - thank you, senator davis. [dramatic music] senator campbell, your point of order is well taken and is sustained. [gavel bangs] the chair recognizes senator hegar. [crowd yells] - they were so upset. they understood that the rules were being bent and broken and twisted in order
and they were going to find those three strikes, no matter what. it was very clear they had been assigned to take turns watching me. i could tell, as i was talking, which senator s hour or 30 minutes that it was, because i was being watched like a hawk. and i was just having to work so hard mentally to make sure that i was staying on track. planned parenthood will have a tough time getting state funds. - senator nichols, for what purpose do you rise? - mr. president, under rule 4.03, is the budget germane to this bill? - no. - for something to be germane to a bill, it has to contribute to the argument about that bill. it can t be completely off topic. mr. president, may i please argue my point with regard to its germaneness, and if you rule that it s not, i m happy to move on to something else? in 2011, over 70 family planning, contraceptive,
one of my very first experiences as a state senator standing up and getting my microphone out and speaking on behalf of my district, one of my fellow senators, a male, older republican. including those that we ve been discussing today - senator, i m sorry. you know i have a hearing problem, and i m only getting about half of what you re saying. - i m sorry, i will speak up. - i have trouble, i m sorry, with women s voices and i m just not getting it. - and it was just such a breathtakingly honest, but also symbolic reflection of what it was like to be in the texas senate. - i know you re new to the legislature, but the fiscal impact on the bill, that is determined if there s a cost to the state. - believe it or not, i understand that a fiscal impact is based on whether there is a cost to the state.
just to move and hoping that would ease the discomfort. my staff sent a note to me saying, stop pacing around your desk. we re afraid they re gonna call a point of order, you know, for some unknown reason. - i d like to raise a point of order that senator davis has violated rule 4.01 when she had senator ellis assist her by putting a back brace on during a pause a moment ago. - that the republican leadership decided that they wanted to silence her, that they were going to do anything to stop her from filibustering, even calling bogus points of order. - this was not in keeping with the tradition of the texas senate. no senator had ever, ever gone through that before. - the point of order is sustained. [gavel bangs]