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Palin gets involved in Texas race (Updated)

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Anchorage Daily News

Posted: February 3, 2009 - 9:21 am

From Sean Cockerham in Juneau --

Campaigning for Saxby Chambliss in Georgia last fall wasn't the end of Gov. Sarah Palin's involvement in Lower 48 political races.

The Dallas Morning News is reporting that Palin has endorsed Rick Perry in the Republican primary for governor of Texas. Looks like a Palin letter touting Perry went to 10,500 members of the Texas Federation of Republican Women.

"He walks the walk of a true conservative. And he sticks by his guns – and you know how I feel about guns," Palin says in the letter.

Perry is running for re-election in the primary next year against U.S. Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchison.

Read the Dallas Morning News story: Sarah Palin hearts Rick Perry.

(Readers may remember that Hutchison visited Alaska, with Sen. Lisa Murkowski, last fall to campaign for then-Sen. Ted Stevens).