The drunk liberal's testimony at trial:
District Attorney Rosemary Lehmberg took the stand Tuesday, testifying that she had been heavily intoxicated the night in April she was arrested for drinking and driving.
On the second day of her civil trial, she was solemn and reserved, admitting multiple times that her behavior toward the sheriff’s deputies and corrections officers who booked her into Travis County Jail “had been totally inappropriate.”
In response to questions from state lawyers, she also gave the first public and detailed account about the events that have led to the case seeking to oust her from office.
Lehmberg said she left work about 4:30 p.m. on April 12 because she had wanted to complete some tax work at home.
She drank some vodka and sparkling water, though she could not remember how much, before leaving about 7 p.m. for the Alamo Drafthouse, where she had two more glasses of wine.
She said she recalled how much she drank there because she had the receipt. But after leaving the theater, she stopped at a nearby liquor store to buy a bottle of vodka, then a convenience store to buy some soda, and sat in her car in the parking lot to have another drink, she said.
She was alone checking emails and “messing on her phone,” she testified. She could not remember how much of the bottle she consumed, she recalled, but when she turned on the ignition, she did not initially think she had been intoxicated to the point of physical impairment.
Once on the road, she said, she had trouble controlling her car and decided to find a place to stop and call someone for a ride. A sheriff’s deputy then pulled up and found the bottle of vodka in her front passenger’s seat three-quarters full, according to the testimony.
“Do you know you were intoxicated to the point that you couldn’t drive?” asked Jim Collins, an assistant county attorney prosecuting the case.
“I was more intoxicated than I could believe,” she responded
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