FARENTHOLD ENDORSES ADELA IN GOP DISTRICT 34 RUNOFF

By Juan MontoyaU.S. District 34 Congressman Blake Farenthold waited until he got off the conference call with some 1,000 voters and today publicly endorsed his district field office administrator Adela Garza for the GOP nomination in the newly-created District 34 runoff election.
Farenthold said he and other GOP faithful have known Garza from her service on local public boards and that compared to the scant public service of her opponent Jessica Bradshaw, from Austin, picking Adela was a no-brainer.
Her supporters also point out that Bradshaw's Tea Party inclinations make her unlikely to attract the crossover vote that Adela was able to provide Farenthold in the 2010 elections when moderate Democrats carried Farenthold over the top despite Solomon Ortiz's enlistment of Bill Clinton during the waning days of the campaign.
In fact, Bradshaw lent her support to Libertarian Ed Mishou in that election after she placed last of four candidates in the Republican primary.
"If Republican voters want to waste their vote, they can vote for Bradshaw," said one. "Farenthold's endorsement of Adela shows that the smart money is with Garza if there is going to be nay hope for victory in November."