Inside A Hit Job

Rep. Louie Gohmert, R-Texas. President Barack Obama addresses a joint session of Congress on health care reform on Wednesday, September 9, 2009 on Capitol Hill in Washington. (Lauren Victoria Burke/WDCPIX.COM)

You don’t often get to see the inner workings of a political hit, but we had a hunch that when Rep. Louie Gohmert (R-TX) lowered the boom on an art gallery director at a public university in his district it might leave a paper trail. So we filed a public records request with the university. What we found was illuminating.