U.S. Rep. Brady pleads no contest to DUI charge

Nov. 9, 2005, 1:49AM

U.S. Rep. Brady pleads no contest to DUI charge
Ordered to pay $403, he can't drive for a month in his home state of South Dakota
By SAMANTHA LEVINE
Copyright 2005 Houston Chronicle Washington Bureau

WASHINGTON - U.S. Rep. Kevin Brady, R-The Woodlands, pleaded no contest Tuesday to a drunken-driving charge in his home state of of South Dakota. He was convicted and fined $350.

Brady remained in Washington, and his attorney entered the plea for him.

The congressman was also ordered to pay $53 in court fees and had his right to drive in South Dakota suspended for 30 days. The punishment was standard for first-offense drunken driving in South Dakota, local officials said.

Brady was arrested on the charge Oct. 7 and posted $400 bail. On Tuesday, Clay County Judge Mary Dell Cody allowed him to use that bail to pay the fine.
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win becaause of a Dakota repuke having aa DUI? I forgot which Dakotaa.

blows through an intersection and hits and runs with a death in the wake. Claim was no drinking, but medicine; and tried (not sure of the outcome) to make the state pay for his court fees b/c he was returning from a political/state function.

From a purley intellectual standpoint,a an interesting tactic however would have been to invoke congressional immunity... Can't stop a congressman from getting to Washington (its in the constitution). Any evidence obtained pursant to an illegal stoppage of congressman would have to be thrown out.

He may have grown up in South Dakota, but if he is an elected official in Texas, then Texas is his "home state". I think he has close ties to DeLay.

R, T, and X together, you can pretty much bet he has close ties to DeLay.