--- title: Rick Perry Removes Insulting Tweet About D.A. Rosemary Lehmberg description: Tweet included a mocking image of a district attorney who is involved in a criminal indictment against the governor canonical: https://time.com/3246367/rick-perry-tweet-rosemary-lehmberg/ author: Dan Kedmey article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2014-09-01T13:37:56.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-08-19T07:47:42.669Z article:section: Politics og:title: Rick Perry Removes Insulting Tweet About D.A. 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Chip Somodevilla—Getty Images  by [Dan Kedmey](https://time.com/author/dan-kedmey/)  ## Dan Kedmey Sep 1, 2014 1:37 PM UTC Texas Governor Rick Perry deleted an “unauthorized” tweet sent out from his official account on Sunday evening, that included a mocking image of a district attorney who is involved in a criminal indictment against the governor. “I do not condone the tweet and I have taken it down,” Perry [tweeted](https://twitter.com/GovernorPerry/status/506250293521424385) from his official account. The removed tweet included an image of Travis County District Attorney Rosemary Lehmberg surrounded by beer bottles with a derisive comment about her drunk driving conviction in 2013. Lehmberg refused to resign after the conviction, prompting Perry to withhold funding from her office until she stepped down. An [indictment](http://time.com/3121778/rick-perry-indicted-in-politically-charged-texas-battle/) last month held that Perry’s maneuver might constitute a possible “abuse of power,” a charge the governor contests is based on a vague and outdated law. ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/3246367/rick-perry-tweet-rosemary-lehmberg/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/3246367/rick-perry-tweet-rosemary-lehmberg/"},"headline":"Rick Perry Disavows Tweet Calling Democratic D.A. a Drunk","datePublished":"2014-09-01T13:37:56.000Z","dateModified":"2026-08-19T07:47:42.669Z","description":"'I do not condone the tweet and I have taken it down'","url":"https://time.com/3246367/rick-perry-tweet-rosemary-lehmberg/","keywords":["2016 Election","Texas","2016 Election","rick perry"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt59bd59110f1dfb68/6986a194cd684883dd096457/453910388.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Dan Kedmey","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/dan-kedmey/"}],"articleSection":"Politics","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt59bd59110f1dfb68/6986a194cd684883dd096457/453910388.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"Rick Perry Discusses Immigration And Border Crisis In Washington DC","caption":"Rick Perry Discusses Immigration And Border Crisis In Washington DC","creditText":"Chip Somodevilla—Getty Images","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/politics/","name":"Politics"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"/tag/2016-election/","name":"2016 Election"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/3246367/rick-perry-tweet-rosemary-lehmberg/","name":"Rick Perry Disavows Tweet Calling Democratic D.A. a Drunk"}}]}] ```