TX SEN: Noriega Earns Endorsement Of Valley Law Enforcement Officers

State Rep. Rick Noriega (D-Houston) yesterday earned the endorsement of law enforcement officers across the Rio Grande Valley.

From the AP:

Standing in the shade of the Hidalgo County courthouse, Noriega picked up manpower that will be critical in his pursuit of incumbent Republican Sen. John Cornyn in the final two weeks of the campaign.

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Noriega’s campaign, which says it will soon return to the television airwaves with a new ad of its own, responded that it doesn’t help Texans to side with President Bush 95 percent of the time, as it said Cornyn had.

“He likes to pretend he wasn’t in Washington the last six years pointing fingers and supporting the failed economic policies of the Bush administration that drove this economy into the ditch,” said Noriega spokesman Martine Apodaca.

In Edinburg, Noriega said Cornyn was part of a failed federal immigration policy that left local law enforcement shouldering to much of the burden “when it’s something the federal government should be doing.”

Noriega, as a lieutenant colonel in Texas National Guard, served on the Texas-Mexico border as part of Operation Jumpstart to bolster local law enforcement in securing the border.

Endorsing Noriega Tuesday were police unions from Brownsville, Mercedes, Pharr and McAllen, as well as deputy sheriffs associations from Hidalgo, Cameron and Webb counties. Several Valley police chiefs and sheriffs from counties farther west along the border have endorsed Cornyn, as well as the 600-member South Texas Organization of Police, an affiliate of the Texas Municipal Police Association.

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