Dallas Morning News Endorses Broden Over EBJ

We have spent considerable resources and energy focusing on ways to “bridge the gap” between northern and southern Dallas in recent years and, as a result, we cannot look past the fact that Johnson allowed at least 23 scholarships that could have helped constituents’ children to be funneled to her own family and associates. Such self dealing is shameful, particularly in a district so full of need. So is her refusal to accept responsibility in any meaningful way. She repaid the $31,000, but she continues to deny that rules were broken, deflect blame to others in her office and cast aspersions on the reporter who discovered this wrongdoing.

The constituents of this mostly southern Dallas district deserve better. We recommend the Republican challenger, Stephen Broden.

Read more: (Editorial, “We Recommend Broden in U.S. House District 30,” The Dallas Morning News, 10/04/2010)