{"id":42173,"date":"2022-02-15T22:46:32","date_gmt":"2022-02-16T05:46:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/santa-fe-police-lawmaker-drove-at-twice-legal-alcohol-limit\/"},"modified":"2022-02-16T05:46:32","modified_gmt":"2022-02-16T05:46:32","slug":"santa-fe-police-lawmaker-drove-at-twice-legal-alcohol-limit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/santa-fe-police-lawmaker-drove-at-twice-legal-alcohol-limit\/","title":{"rendered":"Santa Fe Police: Lawmaker drove at twice legal alcohol limit"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>SANTA FE \u2013 A New Mexico lawmaker caught drinking and driving <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/new-mexico-arrests-albuquerque-santa-fe-b103f9d159571a7f817c55e764b98450\" id=\"link-2\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">late Sunday night<\/a> during the state\u2019s legislative session was intoxicated at more than twice the legal limit for alcohol, according to a police report.<\/p>\n<p>Police measured Democratic Rep. Georgene Louis\u2019 blood alcohol content at 0.17, more than twice New Mexico\u2019s legal limit of 0.08, according to a police report released Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>Louis issued a statement Monday accepting responsibility for her actions and apologizing to her constituents. State Republican leaders are calling for her resignation.<\/p>\n<p>In the report, the officer arresting Louis says he clocked her traveling 62 mph in a 45 mph zone. The officer said in his report she admitted to having two to three vodkas about two hours before the stop.<\/p>\n<p>Louis of Albuquerque was on the way to a rented home in Santa Fe when police stopped her, attorney Kitren Fischer said in a statement.<\/p>\n<p>Louis was absent from a committee hearing on Monday and missed some legislative votes Tuesday. She was seen voting in a virtual hearing Tuesday evening.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>FE \u2013 A New Mexico lawmaker caught drinking and driving late Sunday night during the state\u2019s legislative session was intoxicated at more than twice the legal limit for alcohol, according to a police report. Police measured Democratic Rep. Georgene Louis\u2019 blood alcohol content at 0.17, more than twice New Mexico\u2019s legal limit of 0.08, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[815,138],"naviga_topic":[],"class_list":["post-42173","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-associated-press-new-mexico","tag-new-mexico"],"acf":[],"author_name":"dh_admin","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42173","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=42173"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42173\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=42173"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=42173"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=42173"},{"taxonomy":"naviga_topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/naviga_topic?post=42173"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}