The Annoyed Man wrote:Skiprr wrote:Lehmberg was sued in late 2013 by Travis County Attorney David Escamilla to remove her from office. If you can stomach an op-ed piece from the incredibly left-leaning
Austin Chronicle,
here's a link.
The lawsuit to remove Lehmberg was unsuccessful. But there are some interesting artifacts from that case. Notably, this one:
http://tacticsandtraining.com/TXCHL/Leh ... ceipts.pdf. Mind you, these represent Lehmberg's alcohol purchases from only
one liquor store chain, not her total alcohol consumption.
From January 2012 to April 2013—15 months—Lehmberg made 59 purchases of alcohol at Twin Liquors stores, nearly one purchase per week, and adding up to 24.7 gallons of hard liquor.
Her drunk-driving arrest was no one-time fluke. Rosemary Lehmberg has a demonstrated history of significant and frequent alcohol consumption. She purchased vodka on the day of her arrest, and an open bottle of vodka was found in her car during the arrest.
According to the receipts, Lehmberg spent about $4,400 on alcohol during the 15-month period at Twin Liquors stores alone: a rate of $293 per month. That's at a
single merchant.
This is the Austin District Attorney and head of the Public Integrity Unit of Texas.
This woman needs to be removed from office...and barred from any future judicial, legislative, or executive office.
The whole business is so nasty that I just contributed, again, to
https://www.rickpac.org/.
That slattern has a
serious drinking problem.......and it isn't just her volume of consumption. It is extremely evident that she has a drunk's "it's always the other person's problem/fault" syndrome.......just like that jail video where she told the female jailer that it was going to be
her problem if she didn't call the Sheriff to come get Lehmberg out of jail. She's not
just a drunk, she's a sloppy,
mean drunk. And if her body is processing as much alcohol day in/day out as these receipts seem to indicate, then there is no way that she's not drunk at work. Political affiliations aside, the residents of Texas deserve better than that. I would argue that even
democrats should deserve better than that, but they keep trying to preserve her tenure in office.........so they are in fact getting exactly what they deserve.......but that doesn't mean that the rest of us deserve it.
She is a convicted drunk driver. She showed her behind when she was drunk. She bought a lot of liquor. She should resign. Agreed. The rest, no.
24.7 gallons, about 4 oz. per day. Does she have a domestic partner? Do they share a couple of drinks in the evening? How large is her circle of friends?
Does she entertain?
Appearances can be deceiving.
When I was a much younger man, I maintained a work domicile in another state separate from my family for 13 months. At the time I was enamored of some German wines, but the local merchants didn't stock them. I convinced one merchant to order cases of the wine, which I in turn would purchase from him in half cases. I was consuming about a bottle and a half per week(a glass in the evening with my TV Dinner), so once a month I'd pick up a half case.
One Friday(bitterly cold, ice storm)members of my work group who normally commuted home were unable to travel due to conditions. Several were unable to find lodgings and wound up enjoying my hospitality for the weekend. Needless to say my friendly merchant was surprised to see me at his door, when the weather broke, wanting to purchase more wine. He informed just about everyone in the business community(small town America)that I had gone on a binge and was obviously turning into a drunk without my family around to keep me in check. When next I made some deposits at the bank, My banker invited me into his office and asked how he could help, invited me to attend services, etc. I laughed, thanked him for his concern and assured him all was well. That evening my parish priest showed up at my door. The number of folks who over the next week showed their concern for my well being was quite heart warming, but angry making too.
I never returned to my friendly merchant, he probably still has 2 or 3 cases of the wine in his backroom.
