Former Texas House Speaker Gib Lewis arrested in DWI case

Former House Speaker Gib Lewis of Fort Worth was arrested in Austin late Thursday for driving while intoxicated, police say.

The 72-year-old was apparently driving his 2000 black Porsche in downtown Austin when he didn’t turn left in a left-turn-only lane, said Sgt. Richard Stresing, an Austin police spokesman.

A police officer pulled Lewis over about 11:30 p.m. Thursday, noticed that he had "slurred speech and bloodshot eyes," and called in a DWI unit, Stresing said.

Lewis failed the standard DWI test and registered 0.16 on a Breathalyzer — twice the legal limit — according to an affidavit.

Lewis, a five-term Democratic speaker who also represented Fort Worth in the House for 12 years, is now a lobbyist in Austin. Among his 19 clients this year were Burleson, Mansfield, the Tarrant Regional Water District and Dallas/Fort Worth Airport, state records show.

A call to Lewis’ Austin office was not returned Friday, and he had already been released from the Travis County Jail early Friday.

In the early 1990s, after serving in the House for about 20 years, Lewis stepped down as speaker in the midst of investigations. He pleaded no contest in 1992 to a charge of accepting a gift from a law firm and not disclosing it. He served as speaker from 1983 to 1993.

In 1991, he spent about three hours in jail after a district judge ordered him arrested for missing a court appearance related to an ethics charge.

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