SD Congressman's Speeding Ticket History

[CJIowa]

Twelve speeding tickets in four years? I wonder how many more he has had since 1994. More evidence that repubs think laws and personal responsibility do not apply to them? You be the judge ...

<http://www.ktiv.com/NewsDetail46.cfm?Id=26,6490>

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[NewGuy]

1. Since 1994 he has been the governor...

and then a congress critter living mostly in DC.

[maxanne]

3. NewGuy

no cop would give the governor a ticket - or a US Rep for that matter.
The gov in NH is rumored to have a lead foot in his Humvee - but no statie is going to ticket him.

[indepat]

9. The daughter-in-law of the mayor of our metropolitan city was involved

in a high-speed fatal accident on the interstate within the city some time ago and several witnesses, as I recall, laid the fault of the accident squarely on her. But the police investigation concluded the deceased was a fault and the just-released toxicology report showed no alcohol or illegal drugs in the system of the deceased. The police reportedly saw no reason to test the daughter-in-law nor give any validity to the eye-witness reports which seemingly did not fit the senario they apparently had concocted. I drive that stretch every few weeks and over a five-mile or so stretch, several cars will typically pass me as if I were painted on the wall. I seem to recall some witnesses estimating that her Jaugar was traveling in excess of 100 or so at the time of the accident. Sometimes it pays to be in a high political position or have friends in high political places.

[wellstone_democrat]

2. 12 when he had *high* status political jobs?

Then what would the *real* count be if he was Joe Citizen?

And please don't waste my time with the idea that Congressmen and Governors get tickets just like the rest of us *whenever* they are speeding! They don't.

[Tandalayo_Scheisskopf]

6. I was driving up I-81 once.

Heading towards Scranton PA. I was going just over the speed limit, with the general flow of the traffic, driving a Rider Truck for a band I was working for. In my rear view mirror, I saw a blue Ford Crown Victoria coming up behind me at a very high rate of speed. I got into the right lane. As the Ford passed, still blistering the pavement, I looked over. Two people were in the car. In the back seat was my family's old dry cleaner and, at that time, Speaker of The New Jersey Assembly, Chuck Haytaian. Onward they ran, leaving an asphalt roostertail 30 feet high behind them.

Nope: No special applications of the traffic laws for them. No sirree.

Another time, I was checking licenses at the door of the bar where I was bouncing. A young lady came in and I was checking her license. She had obviously been drinking somewhere else. Not drunk, but certainly had enough to set any cop on point. As I checked her license, I noticed she had the same last name as a local police chief. I asked her if she was his daughter. She said yes. She also reported that she had been stopped on the way to the bar and had been let go, without missing a beat, when her identity was discovered. She said that it happened all the time, as was her right as the daughter of a police chief and that her other siblings, and the siblings of other police personel also enjoyed such a perk.

A few months later, her luck ran out: She rolled her car multiple times. Luckily, she was not hurt. But I know how she rolled it.

There are two sets of laws: Laws for them and laws for us. Know it.

[izzie]

4. If I recall Truman liked to drive and was a fast driver and

he got a ticket for speeding out side of DC. Look it up. I think it was in Rockville, Md.

[CO Liberal]

5. I Remember an Ex-Congressman Back in NJ.......

...named Bob Roe. One day shortly after he retired from Congress, he was driving a little too fast and had an accident, seriously injuring a couple of people. I don't know what ever happened to him - anyone remember?

[rocktivity]

7. He was involved in a fatal collision!

The former South Dakota governor's driving record drew closer attention Monday as authorities investigated a weekend crash in which a Cadillac driven by Janklow collided with a motorcycle, killing the rider.

...It was not immediately known if Janklow violated any traffic laws, and the South Dakota Highway Patrol is investigating...Randolph Scott, 55, who was driving his motorcycle home from his father-in-law's 80th birthday party, was killed.

Nothing that some accident reconstruction can't solve--they'll be able to estimate how fast each were going by the extent of the damage.


rocknation

[SaintLouisBlues]

8. Tom Delay school of public service:

"I AM THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT"