Gay candidate for Mayor of Dallas, TX acknowledges 2002 arrest for playing with guns

Gay mayoral candidate acknowledges 2002 arrest
By David Webb Staff Writer
Dec 21, 2006, 19:09

Herrera says drinking contributed to his reckless behavior with a gun, and that he has now been sober 8 months

Dallas lawyer Roger Herrera, a gay candidate for Dallas mayor, was convicted three years ago on a charge of illegally discharging a gun at his Oak Cliff home in 2002, according to police reports.

Herrera was arrested on Sept. 16, 2002, after 911 operators received multiple complaints about gunfire, according to a Dallas Police Department report.
The investigating officer who arrested Herrera at his home described him in the report as being intoxicated.

The investigating officer said in the report that several witnesses complained about a lone suspect firing shots at or in the direction of their residences.
Herrera, who was a member of the Cultural Affairs Commission at the time, was observed pacing in his back yard and holding a handgun and a beer bottle after investigating officers arrived, according to the report.

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“I had been drinking much,” Herrera said. “I do suffer from alcoholism. I was firing a gun. I did get arrested, and I was found guilty. It’s not something that I’m proud of, and I hope everyone reading this will realize that whether it’s holidays or what have you, we cannot be shooting off guns.”

More:
http://www.dallasvoice.com/artman/publish/article_4275.php

Finally! We have a Democrat who's willing to get drunk and misbehave and go into Rehab! Do you think he staged all this just so he could win in Texas?

I live near Fort Worth and don't follow Dallas politics that closely. Laura Miller is not going to run again?