Fort Worth Star-Telegram: Why is a Fort Worth Democrat going to see President Trump?

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.'

"I tell them Trump did not send for me," she said. "Marc Veasey did. He could have chosen anybody to invite and he chose me."

Veasey said he felt that he needed to use his one ticket to the event to invite Johnson-Polk to join him.

"As a teacher and someone who started the King Kids, and is really well known and well respected in Fort Worth, I wanted her to have the opportunity to go if she wanted to," Veasey said.