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Comment by listenallyall

3 years ago

In an effort to provide balance, I'll point out that months before Cruz's stunt, Wendy Davis, a Texas state senator, filibustered for about 11 hours to prevent a vote on an abortion bill.

> people who vote in Republican primaries, who ate it up.

To the best of my knowledge nobody made a movie about Cruz's speech. Davis's speech, on the other hand, became the subject of a documentary debuting at SXSW:

https://spectrumlocalnews.com/tx/austin/news/2022/03/09/docu...