Rick Perry Twitter account touts D.A. as 'most drunk Democrat in Texas'

By Kurtis Lee

August 31, 2014, 8:47 PM

Texas Gov. Rick Perry deleted a post from his Twitter account Sunday that highlighted the drunken driving arrest of Travis County Dist. Atty. Rosemary Lehmberg, who figures in the saga leading to the governor's recent indictment by a Travis County grand jury. .

Perry's account tweeted an image featuring the logo of the conservative Patriot Post. The image depicted Lehmberg seated at a table with beer bottles. Text accompanying the image read, "I don't always drive drunk at 3x the legal blood alcohol limit ... but when I do, I indict Gov. Perry for calling me out about it. I am the most drunk Democrat in Texas."

The tweet from Perry's account was retweeted more than 600 times.

In a subsequent post, Perry said that the Lehmberg tweet was "unauthorized" and that he did not condone it. Perry's office did not immediately reply to requests for comment about who manages his Twitter account.

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