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SUN JAN 15, 2012 AT 06:27 AM PST
OF COURSE: Republican Sponsor of Bill Requiring Drug Testing for Welfare Recipients Arrested for DUI
byThe TroubadourFollowforWriting by David Harris Gershon
Kip Smith, who is co-sponsor of a bill requiring that public assistance recipients be tested for drug abuse, has been arrested and charged with DUI.
http://www.legis.ga.gov/Legislation/en-US/display/20112012/HB/464
Smith, whose given name is John Andrew Smith, first told the officer he had not consumed any alcoholic beverages.
I asked him again, and he stated he had consumed a single beer at Hals. I noticed also that Mr. Smiths eyes were watery, and I asked him to exit the vehicle, which he did, Kramer said in the report.
Smith told the officer hed had the beer 45 minutes earlier, and the officer asked him to blow into a hand-held intoximeter. The officer said the lawmaker refused, stating he would prefer to go to a clinic or the hospital to get tested.
http://www.ajc.com/news/atlanta/state-rep-kip-smith-1302153.html
tabasco
(22,974 posts)Maybe we should drug test state legislators and kick them off the dole if they test positive or get a DUI.
Meeker Morgan
(1,230 posts)Tunkamerica
(4,444 posts)Stratetalker
(77 posts)It smacks of hubris. 'Ah hell no you cannot get any assistance for you or your family til you piss in a Dixie cup, but I can do a well bottle of Grey Goose and drive through a busy intersection cause I'm a lawmaker.' Jesus h. Christ
Wind Dancer
(3,618 posts)FarLeftFist
(6,161 posts)Which equals ALOT MORE than any welfare recipient gets.
roody
(10,849 posts)bad idea because it invades privacy and discriminates against the poor.
TheMastersNemesis
(10,602 posts)As far as the media is concerned GOP hatred, racism and hypocrisy is irrelevant to any discussion. It is okay when Republicans or conservatives do it. It is part of the double standard that now infects this country.
A Democrat or progressive person or institution or group who does anything even minor is pilloried endlessly. Republicans and right wingers are "natural born pathological liars". It is just their nature like a rabid dog.
Meeker Morgan
(1,230 posts)WillyT
(72,631 posts)How is he gonna pay his lawyer for his illegal drinking and driving?
Meeker Morgan
(1,230 posts)... and I am not an elected official with a DUI.
Is that all it's about? Playing 'gotcha'?
NutmegYankee
(16,201 posts)You may purchase anything that is legal without restriction.
WillyT
(72,631 posts)You may purchase anything that is legal, OR Illegal...
That's the way of the world.
FarLeftFist
(6,161 posts)Because it costs the state money to pay for the drug testing. Needless to say, they scrapped it.
roody
(10,849 posts)me pot on a regular basis. Not that pot is a drug; it is a natural herb.
TheMastersNemesis
(10,602 posts)All the hypocrisy of the GOP and RW is irrelevant to the debate. To the corporate owned media It does not matter how hypocritical or absurd the behavior is, they always seem to get a free pass. And that is the problem because in this post truth and post fact era it does not matter how absurd, hateful or far from reality the GOP is the media sees its role to justify that hypocrisy or pass it off as unimportant. That is it is it is unimportant unless it involves a democrat or progressive.
It is about political derangement of the most dangerous sort. It is because it is about what people believe no matter how insane or murderous that belief is. It is the same sort of environment that allowed something like the holocaust to happen in Germany. The rhetoric is very incendiary, racist and proviolence against anyone who does not accept ALL the right wing's believe system. To believe that the GOP would not instigate a pogrom if it had the power is to ignore a danger that must be challenged. The Gingrich code words on liberal minded people is that they must be exterminated.
The GOP strategy is based on total lies and there is a media that is willing to collaborate in that agenda.
BlancheSplanchnik
(20,219 posts)And I see the similarities to the rise of the Third Reich...the media that enabled its rise, the manipulation, the hoodwinking of the German public with false information.
Historic NY
(37,453 posts)kpete
(72,014 posts)peace, kpete
warrior1
(12,325 posts)Last edited Mon Jan 16, 2012, 11:16 AM - Edit history (1)
to .090 >
more like 5 to 6
think
(11,641 posts)He was given two more breath tests, and Smith blew a .099 and then a .100, well over the legal limit, the report said...
http://www.ajc.com/news/atlanta/state-rep-kip-smith-1302153.html
And not surprisingly he also lied about when had his last drink:
The officer said Smith then told him hed had a beer 15 minutes earlier, instead of the 45 minutes he had said previously. Smith then allegedly failed a walk-and-turn test and a one-leg-stand test...
http://www.ajc.com/news/atlanta/state-rep-kip-smith-1302153.html
RiffRandell
(5,909 posts)if convicted of DUI? Drug testing----including alcohol.
The Straight Story
(48,121 posts)bvar22
(39,909 posts)and was shown the light and was saved,
.....so its ALL Good NOW!
In fact, that DUI was the Bestest thing that EVER happened to him!
bluestate10
(10,942 posts)As things turned out, humanity won as God once again didn't get involved in an athletic contest.
surfdog
(624 posts)And was defeated
FarLeftFist
(6,161 posts)Trillo
(9,154 posts)I guess that legislative concept would also work for class warfare.
malaise
(269,157 posts)the sweet smell of typical ReTHUG hypocrisy early in the morning
Worried senior
(1,328 posts)sweet justice for the hypocrites.