Perry promoted adviser with 3 alcohol offenses

AUSTIN, TX -- Gov. Rick Perry has pushed to remove the Travis County district attorney from office after she was arrested for drunken driving, but he's promoted a top adviser on his staff with three intoxication offenses on his record.

The Republican governor threatened to withhold funding for District Attorney Rosemary Lehmberg's office. Lehmberg, a Democrat, was arrested last year and sentenced to jail.

Wayne Roberts was formerly Perry's budget director and was appointed to the State Pension Review Board in 2009. The Dallas Morning News reports Roberts has two DWI convictions, and fined in Virginia for public intoxication.

He's now head of the Cancer Prevention and Research Institute of Texas.

Meanwhile, Perry took no action against two other district attorneys convicted of drunken driving, one in 2003 and another in 2011.