D.C. Shadow Sen. Paul Strauss was arrested for allegedly driving drunk, spurring the District’s Republican Party chairman to call for his resignation.

Strauss, 44, a real estate lawyer and the former chairman of the District’s Board of Real Property Assessments and Appeals, was nabbed Oct. 1 on the Duke Ellington Bridge in the 2000 block of Calvert Street NW. He was charged with driving under the influence, driving while intoxicated and operating while impaired, according to court records.