A blog about substance abuse among our elected officials and all government officials. The purpose is not necessarily to embarass or humiliate, but to provide awareness of substance abuse and addiction problems.
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Last Sunday a councilman from Morrow, Ohio was observed by police following a vehicle too closely. When he was pulled over an open container of booze was found in his car. He was eventually charged with DUI. The story is here.
This is not the first arrest for Josh Chambers. Last year he brandished a knife and was charged with menace. He apparently told the Mayor that he will resign.
Someone in Marinette, Wisconsin had too much to drink on Saturday. Unfortunately it was the mayor. Even worse, he was arrested for possible DUI.
Mayor Robert Harbick was arrested after he left a fast food joint and got into an accident. He was released and has not yet been charged. The story is here.
Just to prove that we are impartial here at the Drunk Politician Blog, this week’s post is about Democrat San Jose Councilman, Ash Kalra (our last blog concerned a drunk driving Republican). Kalra just pleaded guilty to DUI. See here. We always wish them the best in their efforts to rebound and never let this happen again.
Last month, in May, Kalra was pulled over and arrested for DUI with a reported blood alcohol level of about 0.12. An 0.08 is the legal limit. Report on the initial story can be found here.
Kalra quickly ‘fessed up and yesterday entered a plea of guilty. He was fined $2,000, given probation, ordered to attend counseling, and to work five days of community service.
Like we have said many times before - Alcohol is impartial, too. It loves politicians from all political parties. Unfortunatley, alcohol abuse and addiction problems may result from alcohol consumption.
Alcohol does not discriminate. It treats all who drink it equally. And people from all walks of life, of all races, and from both sexes, love to drink it. The big and the small, the rich and the poor, the religious and non-religious, the pretty and the ugly, the flashy and the plain, the introvert and the extrovert , the powerful and the weak, Republicans and Democrats, liberals and conservatives, communists, socialists and capitalists, – all groups have members who have consumed alcohol, and all groups have members who have abused alcohol.
The latest member of politicians who now must face the consequences for overindulgence is Idaho State Senator, John McGee, a Republican. We are bi-partisan at the Drunk Politician Blog, and this is no attack on Republicans. It is simply notice that anyone can drink too much and suffer the consequences.
In the case of the 38-year-old McGee, it appears that after having too much to drink, he was arrested for misdemeanor drunk driving with a blood alcohol level almost twice over the legal limit. To make matters worse, it was not his car he was driving - it was a car he had apparently stolen while in a drunken stupor! Add felony grand theft auto to his charges.
There are 3,428 people in Rhode Island who may legally use medical marijuana under the state’s medical-marijuana program. Rhode Island House Minority Leader, Robert W. A Watson, is not one of them. That’s a problem, because he was arrested last week on suspicion of DUI and for having a baggie of pot in his car. The story is here.
Yes – innocent until proven guilty. And Watson denies he was DUI, though police claim he was impaired. Interestingly, in 2000, Watson was convicted of DUI in New Hampshire. That story is here.
Last December, the Mayor of Raleigh apparently had a little whiskey before he got behind the wheel of his car– okay, a lot – and he and was arrested for careless driving. Recently he was found guilty of DUI and ordered to pay more than $1,800 and sentenced to two days in jail. The story is here.
The arrest back in December was carried out by former Police Chief David Stringer. The interesting thing is that Stringer was fired in January. What’s that all about?
Prescription painkillers have numbed another elected official. Frankie Arnold is the mayor of Newkirk, Oklahoma. Last week he was arrested and charged with improperly getting prescriptions of Hydrocodone from two different doctors and from online. The story is here. Arnold, who is 51, is also a professor at Cowley County Community College.
