AUSTIN, Texas – East Texas congressman Louie Gohmert pledged last fall to jump into the crowded GOP contest for attorney general only if he could raise $1 million in 10 days.
By late November, a smiling Gohmert declared he had reached the goal and would officially run.
But a new campaign finance report paints a different picture. The Republican didn’t hit the seven-figure target until weeks after his self-imposed deadline and only then, thanks to a flurry of big-dollar donations that arrived just before the reporting cutoff of New Year’s Eve.
