Three days after her drunk driving arrest, state Attorney General Peg Lautenschlager apologized for her actions but did not resign from her position in a press conference Thursday morning.

“Today, I’ve come to talk to the people of the state of Wisconsin, those who expect an AG to uphold the law,” Lautenschlager said. “I apologize. I made a terrible choice.”

Appearing visibly upset, Wisconsin’s top law enforcer apologized to her family, colleagues and citizens of the state while pledging to take full responsibility for her actions.

“I cannot erase my actions on the night of Monday, Feb. 23,” Lautenshlager said. “I can, however, offer each and every citizen my most sincere apologies and promise that this will not happen again.”

Lautenschlager was arrested Monday night when Dodge County police found her state-owned car in a ditch off U.S. Highway 151. According to the police report, Lautenschlager was traveling to her home in Fond du Lac after she said she had drinks with friends in Madison. She had a blood alcohol content of .12, as determined by a preliminary breath test. She refused to submit to a blood test.

Lautenschlager announced Thursday she had entered a guilty plea to the charge of operating a motor vehicle while intoxicated. She also declared she would not dispute the Dodge County officer’s determination of her failure to submit the blood test.

As part of the plea, Lautenschlager will pay a nearly $800 fine, undergo an alcohol assessment and lose her license for a year. Because of her refusal to submit the blood test, she will have to wait 30 days before applying for an occupational driver’s license.

“There have been countless questions regarding the incident Monday night,” Lautenschlager said. “The bottom line is that I made the wrong choice — and for that I will take full responsibility.”

After the five-minute address, Lautenschlager left without taking questions, leaving her attorney, Stephen Meyer, to field questions from the press.

Meyer announced Lautenschlager would retain her post as Wisconsin’s top cop, saying that there is no talk of the Attorney General stepping down.

Lautenschlager’s drunk driving arrest has come under fire by some of her critics, namely former Sen. Brian Burke (D — Milwaukee), who is currently charged with 18 felonies in the on-going state capitol corruption investigation.

“She should recognize, however, just how lucky she is that her offense, driving a state-owned vehicle drunk, is not currently in fashion in Madison,” Burke said in a press release. “The fact that the allegations against me, which I deny, are all the rage in Madison, seems to be the only reason why Attorney General Lautenschlager’s ‘mistake’ has resolved in less than 72 hours for about $800 and the government has spent years and hundreds of thousands of dollars pursuing me. To paraphrase the Attorney General: ‘There but for the grace [of the prosecutors] go I’.”

Despite the arrest, however, many were quick to support Lautenschlager.

“Attorney General Lautenschlager did today what many people and politicians have avoided doing in the past — she took responsibility for her actions,” Democratic Party of Wisconsin Chair Linda Honald said in a statement. “The Democratic Party of Wisconsin stands behind our Attorney General one hundred percent during this trying time for her and her family.”