Confirmed: Megachurch Pastor Hagee endorsed Patrick

[TexasTowelie]

Verbal warfare escalated earlier this week in the Republican Primary race for lieutenant governor when Land Commissioner Jerry Patterson accused Houston Sen. Dan Patrick of misleading voters by claiming that John Hagee, pastor of the 22,000-member Cornerstone Church in San Antonio, had endorsed Patrick’s candidacy. Patterson claims he was told that Hagee does not make political endorsements.

Patterson told the Austin American-Statesman that Hagee Ministries had assured him via email that Hagee did not formally endorse candidates.

Patrick responded that Hagee had endorsed him at a fundraiser that Hagee held for Patrick’s candidacy. Campaign finance reports confirm that Hagee donated $1,000 to Patrick’s campaign. We reached out yesterday to Hagee’s office to settle the dispute about a formal “endorsement.”

Today, a Hagee spokesman responded with a formal statement: “Pastor Hagee held a fundraiser for Dan Patrick at which Hagee endorsed Patrick’s bid for lieutenant governor.”

More at http://blog.chron.com/texaspolitics/2014/02/confirmed-megachurch-pastor-john-hagee-endorsed-dan-patrick/?cmpid=hpts .

[longship]

1. Hello, IRS? Jerk their tax free status!

Partisan politics and religion is a no-no.

Sick of this shit!

[rafeh1]

2. he can endorse as an individual

as long as the church is not endorsing then it is legal

[longship]

3. If he endorses from the pulpit, it isn't personal.

I don't know if he did that, but many of them are, and are getting away with it because the IRS is not enforcing the rules.

[Gothmog]

4. Juanita Jean had some good comments about this endorsement

http://www.juanitajean.com/2014/02/03/holy-crap-dan-patrick-edition/

Y’all have heard me talk about Fort Worth Pastor and TeeVee Evangelist John Hagee.

He’s a doozy who thinks everything is a sin except gluttony. Well, his gluttony. Your gluttony is probably still a sin.

Hagee thinks that Catholics allowed the wholesale slaughter of Jews and that Hurricane Katrina was God’s revenge for Homosexuality (which is believes is a seven syllable word). He doesn’t think too highly of females (which makes you wonder about that whole seven syllable homosexuality thing) and has decided that slavery wasn’t really all that bad.

He has also decided that Dan Patrick would be a darn fine Lt. Governor for Texas.

“It has been my privilege to work with Senator Patrick over the past eight years on legislation in Austin designed to benefit the educational growth and development of Texas students. I know Senator Patrick to be a man of integrity, choosing right over wrong, ethics over convenience and truth over popularity.” Pastor John Hagee

Now that right there is some holy crap.

Ethics? ’Scuse me, did he say ethics? You can say a lot of things about Dan Patrick but ethical ain’t one of them.

The Home Skool PAC also endorsed him but their chalkboard slates got accidentally erased in the mail.

[cloudbase]

5. That endorsement didn't come at no cost.

I wonder what Patrick promised him.

[Ilsa]

6. And now we can pretty well assume

who the craziest candidate is.