{"id":248751,"date":"2013-03-29T01:48:16","date_gmt":"2013-03-29T06:48:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/?p=248751"},"modified":"2013-03-29T16:59:28","modified_gmt":"2013-03-29T21:59:28","slug":"gohmert-responds-to-d-c-ticket-incident-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=248751","title":{"rendered":"Gohmert Responds to D.C. Ticket Incident"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"thumb_louie-gohmert-3\"<\/a>WASHINGTON, D.C. \u2014 Tyler Congressman Louie Gohmert is catching heat for an alleged dispute with United States Park Police officers over a March 13 parking ticket in Washington D.C. According to POLITICO, law enforcement reported Gohmert was \u201crude and irate.\u201d It is also said Gohmert took the ticket off his windshield and put it on a police car along with his business card with a written message: \u201cOversight of Park Service is my job! Natural Resources Thus the Congressional Plate in window.\u201d Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington filed a complaint with the Congressional Ethics office against the Texas Republican for poor behavior as a congressman, stated the Houston Chronicle. <\/p>\n

In an interview with KETK, Congressman Gohmert gave his side of the story. The congressman said he\u2019s been parking in the area for years with no problems. \u201cI take a lot of the people around the Capitol, as I\u2019ve got time, I take them to a monument or two,\u201d said Gohmert. \u201cI\u2019m not always able to do that. I\u2019m on the National Resource Committee and I go down to Lincoln Memorial. People have complained from East Texas about the film under the Lincoln memorial and bird poop. I go down there quite a bit. For 8 years, I\u2019ve been told by the national park service people, \u2018No, you can park anywhere we park. If we can park there, Congressman, you can park there.\u2019 They\u2019ve always been very gracious and I\u2019ve always gotten along great with them.\u201d <\/p>\n

According to Gohmert, he was at the memorial between 11 p.m. and midnight for about 15 minutes before he returned to find a ticket under his windshield wiper. That\u2019s when the congressman spoke to a park officer to discuss the matter. Gohmert claims he was not out of control as media reports have speculated. \u201cI didn\u2019t think I was irate,\u201d said Rep. Gohmert. \u201cI don\u2019t believe from what I\u2019ve been told before that I\u2019m supposed to get a ticket.\u201d After showing his congressional plate to the officer, he handed him a card and offered to talk with him at anytime. <\/p>\n

The Texas congressman told KETK he believes he\u2019s not in the wrong, but would pay the $25 fine if proven otherwise. \u201cAnd by the way, so far, what we\u2019ve been able to find is probably the D.C. Code applies there,\u201d said Gohmert. \u201cAnd the code says a member of Congress may park in any available space in the District of Columbia. If I\u2019m wrong, I\u2019ll pay the ticket. Nobody is above the law, I don\u2019t care who you are. I certainly believe that.\u201d As for the organization who filed the complaint against Mr. Gohmert, he\u2019s not surprised, saying the \u201cleftist group\u201d only comes after Republicans. \u201cI guess it\u2019s an honor for them to think I\u2019m worthy of coming after,\u201d stated the congressman. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

WASHINGTON, D.C. \u2014 Tyler Congressman Louie Gohmert is catching heat for an alleged dispute with United States Park Police officers over a March 13 parking ticket in Washington D.C. According to POLITICO, law enforcement reported Gohmert was \u201crude and irate.\u201d It is also said Gohmert took the ticket off his windshield and put it on … Continue reading Gohmert Responds to D.C. Ticket Incident<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[177],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-248751","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-local-news-archive-archives"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-07-06 06:00:05","action":"change-status","newStatus":"trash","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/248751","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=248751"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/248751\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":248909,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/248751\/revisions\/248909"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=248751"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=248751"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=248751"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}