Hague (R of King County Council, Wash.) apologizes for behavior during DUI arrest [View All]

Source: Seattle Times

King County Council member Jane Hague apologized Wednesday to her constituents, fellow council members and law-enforcement officers for her conduct the night she was arrested on suspicion of drunken driving.

... Hague, 61, has pleaded not guilty to driving under the influence. Breath tests administered the night of her arrest measured Hague's blood-alcohol content at 0.135 percent and 0.141 percent, above the state's 0.08 percent limit. A pretrial hearing is scheduled for Oct. 1 in the Redmond branch of King County District Court.

A Bellevue Republican and a political power on the Eastside since first being elected to the Metropolitan King County Council in 1993, Hague is up for re-election Nov. 6. The Democratic nominee is Richard Pope, a Bellevue attorney who has run unsuccessfully for various public offices 10 times.

... Hague's estimate of the amount of alcohol she drank June 2 is at odds with a Washington State Liquor Control Board chart showing that a 140-pound woman (slightly heavier than Hague, according to information in her court file) would, on average, have to consume four drinks in an hour to record a blood-alcohol level of 0.13 percent. But the Liquor Board notes that individual responses to alcohol consumption vary.

After the arrest, Hague did not go public. The incident was reported in the news media last month.

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