Palin endorsement for Tea Party fave Broden becomes official

Former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin has weighed into Texas politics again by backing Republican Stephen Broden against incumbent US Rep. Eddie Bernice Johnson in Dallas.

Broden has been a regular speaker at North Texas Tea Party events for over a year, regularly drawing standing ovations for preaching against President Obama's "godless socialism."

Palin posted the endorsement on her Facebook page on Tuesday but the news had already come out over the weekend. On Sunday, Star-Telegram writer Anna Tinsley reported that Broden was introduced at the Wake Up America Tea Party at the Fort Worth Convention Center as the latest politician to get Palin's seal of approval.

Johnson has come under fire in recent weeks for awarding scholarships to relatives and children of one of her aides. Despite the controversy, the seat is still expected to stay Democratic, according to many political analysts. In 2008, both Obama and Johnson garnered 82 percent of the vote in the district.

-Aman Batheja

Comments

[m gray]

This blog is useless. Who cares about a noncompentitive congressional race in dallas?

How about covering Tarrant County politics.

[texasbred]

Help me out here. Didn't Sarah Palin quit while still the active governor? When do Texans listen to a quiter? It is more in how you finish then how you start. At least that is what my dad said when I was out scooping feed and water troughs. It is starting to get cold out in Alaska. Maybe she should go and make some moose chili. (I would like to try some moose chili.)