Republican State Representative Charged with DUI

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Glad he didn’t hurt anyone or himself. Hopefully he will learn not to drink and drive.
 
Cider said:
Last I checked alcohol wasn’t illegal so I don’t see what one has to do with the other. I also don’t think he was getting drunk off an unemployment or welfare check. Having said that, of course he shouldn’t have been driving while intoxicated.
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It shows hypocrisy. He wasn’t on the dole I suppose, but he is certainly being paid by our taxes as he advocates increased monitoring of the “shiftless” poor. 🤷

I guess he was “randomly selected” by the state! 😃

I’m just glad him stating “I’m a state representative” to the trooper didn’t get any traction.

Oh well, I guess he just had to pick up his gold Jaguar after getting out of the drunk tank. 🙂
 
Wow, what’s with all the references to his percieved wealth? I’m not sure what brand of car he drives has anything to do with his DUI.
 
The fact that he was DUI means he deliberately put other people’s lives at risk.

This is inexcusable for any 29 year old man.

But for an elected representative in a position of legal and moral responsibility, this is outrageous.

What kind of example is he setting.

DUI *and *lying to a police officer.

What moral authorit does he have to introduce invasive laws like drug testing? Which is no doubt humiliating for all the non-drug using people forced into relin on welfare at this difficulrt time.

The man needs to seriousl make ammends.😦

I hope, for his sake, that he does so.
 
Joe_Hill said:
The fact that he was DUI means he deliberately put other people’s lives at risk.

This is inexcusable for any 29 year old man.

But for an elected representative in a position of legal and moral responsibility, this is outrageous.

What kind of example is he setting.

DUI *and *lying to a police officer.

What moral authorit does he have to introduce invasive laws like drug testing? Which is no doubt humiliating for all the non-drug using people forced into relin on welfare at this difficulrt time.

The man needs to seriousl make ammends.😦

I hope, for his sake, that he does so.
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Whatever laws he has sponsored, his behavior is egregious.

But I do agree, that his having sponsored a bill that asks that those receiving state/federal benefits to submit to drug testing is highly ironic.
 
ringil said:
It shows hypocrisy. He wasn’t on the dole I suppose, but he is certainly being paid by our taxes as he advocates increased monitoring of the “shiftless” poor. 🤷

I guess he was “randomly selected” by the state! 😃

I’m just glad him stating “I’m a state representative” to the trooper didn’t get any traction.

Oh well, I guess he just had to pick up his gold Jaguar after getting out of the drunk tank. 🙂
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If he had been a Democrat, I doubt there would be a thread about it.

If everybody who was ever guilty of hypocrisy was disqualified from proposing legislation or governmental rules, there wouldn’t be any legislation nor any new rule-making. Maybe that’s not such a bad idea, now that I think about it. 😃

Well, thank goodness he didn’t drive into a bay while drunk and abandon a woman to drown.
 
Ridgerunner said:
Well, thank goodness he didn’t drive into a bay while drunk and abandon a woman to drown.
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Yes, you see, if this was a Democrat the thread would be sure to show up here on CAF.

I’ve never noticed any reticence to post stories of Democrats engaged in bad behavior.

It’s the irony in the story that makes it so striking. 🙂
 
His bad behavior does not negate the good that his law is doing.
 
ringil said:
Yes, you see, if this was a Democrat the thread would be sure to show up here on CAF.

I’ve never noticed any reticence to post stories of Democrats engaged in bad behavior.

It’s the irony in the story that makes it so striking. 🙂
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Maybe it’s not as ironic as it might seem. At one time in my state the “legal intoxication” level was .15. Then it was .10. Now it’s .08. This guy blew .09. For most people, the difference between .07 and.09 would be less than an ounce of 80 proof whiskey…a generously-pouring bartender can make all the difference.

It doesn’t take much to get there nowadays, and most don’t realize it. Looking at the weight/age charts, it would take three beers and a trifle to get me to .08. Now, one can argue that with three beers on board I ought not to be driving. But I sure wouldn’t be 'drunk" at three beers. If I waited one hour before driving, though, I would be below .08. On the other hand, if I took one of the three right before driving, then I might or might not blow .08, depending on my absorption rate, when I last ate and my metabolic rate and how long I was on the road. I might be 'sober" halfway home, and “over the limit” for half the trip.

A pre-diabetic can register pretty high without having anything to drink at all. But we’ll never know whether this guy is or not. And field sobriety tests are not even accepted as indicative of intoxication in some jurisdictions.

Regardless, that’s a very different thing from using street drugs. You do know, do you not, that if a person has a legitimate reason for having say, metabolites of opiates in his urine test, (say, a prescription for Vicodin) the test is mandatorily rendered “negative”. But when it comes to people with positive results for meth or cannabinoid metabolites, there really isn’t any conclusion to draw other than that the person is a drug user.

Personally, I think there’s quite a bit less than meets the eye in this story.
 
Yerusalyim said:
His bad behavior does not negate the good that his law is doing.
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Ironic maybe, but a laws merits stand on their own, regardless of the sponsor. I could care less who introduces a bill that has merit. Likewise, I don’t like worthless bills introduced by people of high moral character.

The incident speaks to the poor decision making of a person, and has nothing to do with the merits of the bill.
 
Mrs_Sally said:
Whatever laws he has sponsored, his behavior is egregious.

But I do agree, that his having sponsored a bill that asks that those receiving state/federal benefits to submit to drug testing is highly ironic.
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I agree. Ahhh, the irony.
 
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