Louie Gohmert
Republican Candidate for Attorney General
Gohmert/Photo by Campaign
Question: What is your age?
Answer: 68
Q: What is your educational background? Please list any degrees or certificates earned and any institutions attended.
A: Texas A&M University, BA
Baylor School of Law, JD
Q: What is your occupation?
A: Public Servant
Q: If you are a business owner, please list the business or businesses that you own. (If this question is not applicable, please note that below.)
A: N/A
Q: Please list any civic boards or commissions (non-profit, government, union, political, etc.) on which you have served as a board member or equivalent.
A: Deacon, Green Acres Baptist Church; Pres, South Tyler Rotary Club; Rotary District Asst. Gov; Advisory Board Member, Institute for Transnational Arbitration; Chair, NE Texas-SE Oklahoma Rotary District Conference; Board of Advisors, Texas Baptist Leadership Center; VP Boy Scout District Bd; Director, Leadership Tyler; Smith County Local Administrative Judge; Region I Rep (including Dallas to Texarkana), TX Association of District Judges; Director, Centrepoint Ministries; Director, Tyler Junior College Baptist Student Ministry; Director, A&M Baptist Student Advisory Bd; Pres & Director, Texas Aggie Bar Assoc; Director & VP, A&M Former Students Assoc;
Congress: Judiciary Committee: Chair, Crime, Terrorism & Homeland Security; Constitution, Civil Rights & Civil Liberties; Courts, Intellectual Property & Internet; Immigration & Citizenship Subcommittees; Natural Resources: Vice-chair, Oversight Chair. House Freedom Caucus Director
Q: Have you previously held or do you currently hold any elected office? If so, what office(s)?
A: Judge, 7th District Court of Texas
Chief Justice, Texas 12th Court of Appeals (appointed to normally elected office by Gov. Perry to finish an unexpired term)
Congress Member, 1st Congressional District of Texas
Q: If your campaign has any online campaign resources where voters can learn more about you, such as social media accounts or a website, please list them below.
A: gohmert.com
Q: Why did you decide to run for this office in 2022?
A: Our U.S. republic is in grave danger, and if Texas fails to enforce the law and protect our republican form of government and keep ourselves free from invasion, the nation will be lost. Our Attorney General has been compromised as has its integrity. Though the AG has taken some actions I would have, the offices integrity, work ethics of the AG must be restored. I will not be chasing after extra-marital affairs nor seeking assistance from donors with ethical problems I created.
Q: If elected, what will be your top three priorities in office?
A: Securing free and fair elections, securing the border, protecting parents.
Q: What is an issue you believe has gone overlooked in your race and how will you address it if elected?
A: Protecting children from gender change procedures, surgeries, or medications, that create potentially irreversible adverse effects that amount to child abuse. For some reason, the current Attorney General has failed to take action to protect such children. Also, the Attorney General filed a law suit against swing states after the 2020 election for changing election laws without using their state legislatures though the US Constitution required it, yet, our Texas AG knew that Texas had done the exact same thing those states did, thereby dooming the suit from the very start. He also knew that he had done nothing to advise the Texas Governor against changing election laws without the legislature acting.
Q: Why are you the best candidate for voters to support for this position?
A: Though I had not thought about it until this year when the need for a new Attorney General in Texas became so apparent, my entire adult life has prepared me to be the most experienced Attorney General in recent history.