Rosemary Lehmberg holds the office of District Attorney of Travis County, Texas because she was elected to it. The question -- given that she served time on a drunk driving conviction and acted like a belligerent teenager in the lockup after her arrest -- is: How? And the answer is an old standby, though often overlooked in the perplexity of the moment:
She got elected because the alternative was even worse.
Now that might have you wondering, good grief, who was the alternative?
So if you're in Travis County, who do you want "enforcing" the law, an ill-tempered drunk or a reckless, ideological zealot?
Answer: Ummm, move.
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