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Fort Worth, TX (WBAP/KLIF) – A retired Fort Worth school teacher is delighted about her chance to attend President Trump's first State of the Union address Tuesday.
WFAA-TV reports former Dunbar Middle School teacher Charmion Johnson-Polk was invited by Fort Worth Congressman and former student Marc Veasey. Johnson-Polk told the station.
"I never dreamed I would be getting up in the gallery to see or to hear a president speak."
WFAA
Even before you walk in her front door, Charmion Johnson-Polk has a lesson plan.
Her yard has signs like "you can't scare me, I teach" and "to teach is to touch a life forever"…
She will attend the first State of The Union for President Donald Trump as a guest of Fort Worth Congressman Marc Veasey, D-Fort Worth.
Fort Worth Star-Telegram
Charmion Johnson-Polk can't wait for Tuesday night.
That evening, the longtime Fort Worth Democrat — a retired teacher — will sit in the balcony over the U.S. House of Representatives chamber, watching President Donald Trump give his first State of the Union address…
True, she's a Democrat, invited by U.S. Rep. Marc Veasey, D-Fort Worth, to attend the event…
"Ninety-five percent of the people who find out I was invited say, ‘You better go, girl.' That's an historic moment," she said. "The others say, ‘Oh, you're going to hear Trump. I don't want to hear him.'
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