According to prison and court records, Charles J. Schwertner, Senator from Georgetown, Texas, was arrested and charged with DWI in Austin. Schwertner, 52, was taken into police custody Austin PD at 12:46 a.m. on Tuesday, Feb. 7, near the intersection of Avenue B and West 45th Street, according to records.
Official records show that Schwertner drove recklessly through the Hyde Park neighborhood. Documents show that Schwertner double-tongued during a traffic stop, appeared confused, and had bloodshot, glassy, watery eyes. As an added bonus, his breath reportedly smelled strongly of booze.
Schwertner was arrested at 2:12 a.m. on a charge of drunk driving, a class B misdemeanor, and put in the Travis County Jail. He was released from prison on Tuesday afternoon.
Perry Minton, Schwertner’s attorney, sent the following statement to the KVUE Defenders: “After Senator Schwertner’s regrettable detention this morning, I was able to meet with him. True, he was humbled by his predicament, but he was also level-headed, level-headed, and made sensible arguments.
We look forward to hearing more about the finding when it becomes public.” Schwertner is the head of two different Senate committees: the Commerce Committee and the Constitution Committee.
In addition to his work for the Legislative Budget Board and the Texas Sunset Advisory Commission, he serves on the Senate Education, Finance and State Affairs Committees. The Texas Tribune claims this is not the first scandal Schwertner has endured.
Sexually explicit images of his genitals were allegedly sent to a graduate student at the University of Texas in 2018. He claimed that someone else sent the messages from his LinkedIn account and another privacy phone messaging service he owns, refuting the allegations.
Schwertner was labeled a recalcitrant and was not acquitted in a UT probe. However, the university concluded that it could not verify that Schwertner had sent the texts. Schwertner resigned as head of the Texas Senate Health and Human Services Committee after the sexual harassment complaint surfaced.
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Charles J Schwertner
American orthopedic surgeon and politician Charles J. Schwertner was born on May 29, 1970 in Georgetown, Texas. After serving one term in the Texas House of Representatives from January 2011, he was elected to the Texas State Senate on November 6, 2012. It’s the Republican party and he belongs to it.
Schwertner is the head of the Texas Senate Committee on Business and Commerce. He now serves on the Senate Legislative Oversight Committee for the HHS Transition, as well as the education, finance, and state affairs committees.
Schwertner also chairs the 12-member Sunset Advisory Commission, which is made up of legislators and members of the public and is tasked with regularly reviewing the work of more than 130 government agencies.
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