Cook County Republican Commissioner Sean Morrison on Friday called for the resignation of Democratic Assemblywoman Samantha Steele, who was arrested and charged with a DUI in Chicago.

WBEZ and the Sun-Times first reported Steele’s arrest on Sunday — and described her allegedly making lewd comments to a police officer. According to police reports, she repeatedly told a Chicago police officer, “Is your penis that small?”

Morrison said the behavior toward police, more than the DUI arrest itself, prompted him to issue a statement urging Steele to resign from the three-member, elected county panel that decides property tax appeals.

“We can’t have elected officials showing that it’s their mindset that they carry, to have contempt for law enforcement,” Morrison said. “Someone like that probably shouldn’t be in the office.”

Steele, 45, lives in Evanston and was first elected to the review board in 2022, unseating an incumbent board commissioner in the Democratic primary. She was previously the elected assessor of Tippecanoe County, Indiana.

Steele has not publicly commented on her arrest and the misdemeanor DUI charge filed against her this week.

According to public records, officers found Steele lying on the sidewalk near two vehicles that sustained “extensive” damage at about 8:50 p.m. Sunday, in the 5000 block of North Ashland Avenue. Steele told police she crashed into another vehicle.

Police saw an open bottle of red wine on the floor of the passenger side of Steele’s car, according to the records.

“I saw her eyes were bloodshot and glassy,” an officer wrote in a report. “I also detected a strong odor of alcoholic beverage coming from her breath when she spoke.”

Police said Steele refused to perform field sobriety tests and when asked how much she had been drinking, she replied, “I want my lawyer, and I’m not talking to you.”

In doing so, Steele showed “total disregard and arrogance for the arresting officers who were there doing their jobs,” Morrison said.

“If we have an elected official who has that kind of contempt and disrespect for our police officers, how can we ask the general public to have respect for police officers?” Morrison said.

Steele called Scott Britton, a Democratic member of the Cook County Board of Commissioners, to act as her attorney the night of the crash, records show. Britton has since said he is not a criminal lawyer and referred Steele to another lawyer, whom he declined to identify.

Steel’s court date was scheduled for Dec. 27.

Steele represents the review board District 2which includes much of Chicago’s North Side and the northern suburbs.

An aide to Steele, Frank Calabrese, recently filed a lawsuit against her and her chief of staff in federal court.

Earlier in the year, Steele defended give a county job to a former northwest Indiana politician who had pleaded guilty in a federal case.

And Steele has found himself at the center of the dispute over the Chicago Bears’ property tax bill for the old Arlington Park racetrack, where the football team has considered building a new stadium.

Dan Mihalopoulos is an investigative reporter on WBEZ’s government and politics team. Tom Schuba is a criminal justice editor for the Sun-Times.