Rep. Louie Gohmert

Remember Rep. Louie Gohmert (R-Tex.)? He’s the guy who insisted that D.C. doesn’t need a voting member of Congress because it already has hundreds of legislators looking out for it and wanted congressmen and women to be allowed to carry guns while on Capitol Hill, among plenty of other hits.

Well, he now seems to think that his congressional parking placard entitles to him to park just about anywhere he wants whenever he wants, a belief that the U.S. Park Police seemed eager to quash when it recently handed him a ticket for parking illegally near the Lincoln Memorial. Politico has all the details:

Shortly after 11 p.m. on March 13, officers wrote Rep. Louie Gohmert a citation for parking his black Ford SUV in a spot reserved for National Park Service vehicles, according to a Park Police report obtained by POLITICO.

But Gohmert wasn’t having it: He told the Park Police that his congressional parking placard allows him to park in that spot, and he’s on the committee that oversees the agency.

Gohmert took the ticket off his windshield and placed it on a police car along with his business card with a written message: “Oversight of Park Service is my job! Natural Resources Thus the Congressional Plate in window.”

He was “rude and irate,” one officer reported. Another wrote that Gohmert was “ranting.”

“I was issued a ticket and I am a congressman and parked my vehicle in the NPS parking only because I have a Congress placard, see,” Gohmert told one officer, according to the report. “I am going to a meeting on the Hill and I am the one who oversees the National Park Services Natural Resources.”

Thankfully, the Park Police isn’t backing down, saying today that a congressional placard would certainly allow Gohmert to park most anywhere he wants—but not in the spot he chose near the Lincoln Memorial, and certainly while not on official business.

The $25 fine stands, and is payable to the D.C. government. But given that Gohmert tried to pull rank, what are the chances that he actually pays it?