DUI Arrest Puts Spotlight on Florida Congressman's Daughter

[Soylent Brice]

The highly publicized arrest last week of U.S. Rep. John Mica's daughter for driving under the influence has spurred the Florida Republican's political opponents to renew their focus on connections between the congressman's work on Capitol Hill and his daughter's connection to a powerful Florida construction company.

Congressman Mica is the ranking Republican on the House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee. His daughter D'Anne Leigh Mica, 34, a public-relations executive, has a web site that identifies one of the largest transportation engineering and construction firms in the country, Florida-based PBS&J, as one of her clients.

How much money the company has paid the congressman's daughter is unclear. In an interview on Monday night, D'Anne Mica told ABC News that she never did any direct work for the national contractor, and the public relations job had nothing to do with her father.

"My father has no idea what I do in my business. And I have no idea what he does in his," she said.

link: http://abcnews.go.com/Blotter/dui-arrest-puts-spotlight-florida-congressmans-daughter/story?id=9535685

[monmouth]

1. Joe Namath's daughter Olivia is the headline in PB County. She had

no idea the huge amount also found in her car along with eleven empties of lite beer. Out on bail. Joe's dog was in trouble last week for some reason I can't remember right now. Not a good year for the Namath's so far....

[Dappleganger]

2. She's 34 years old, hardly a child.

[Scurrilous]

3. K & R

:thumbsup:

[ddeclue]

4. but what does a DUI have to do with anything?

I hate irrelevant connections being made by the media.. people already lack reasoning and logic skills, the media doesn't need to dumb them down even further with Obama's uncle's daughter-in-law's boss got a DUI or George W. Bush's son-in-law's business partner got caught smoking pot...

It's IRRELEVANT.

If there are dots to connect, do it with RELEVANT points.

:eyes:

[madinmaryland]

5. Nothing. This is what I find relative...

"Congressman Mica is the ranking Republican on the House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee. His daughter D'Anne Leigh Mica, 34, a public-relations executive, has a web site that identifies one of the largest transportation engineering and construction firms in the country, Florida-based PBS&J, as one of her clients."

So one of her clients is one of the largest firms that just happens to be regulated by her father's committee. That to me smacks of a serious conflict of interest and maybe even illegal.

[ddeclue]

6. SO? .. the head line is IRRELEVANT and SLEAZY JOURNALISM.

Her DUI has nothing to do with the story the story could have been told without even mentioning it.

[depakid]

7. Without the DUI none of this would have come to light

That's the price Americans pay for a lazy, irresponsible media.

DUI = evil and easy. Corruption = par for the course and not worth the time and resources to uncover.

[ddeclue]

8. it's just disgusting how much we have become an Idiocracy.

The DUI has nothing to do with the corruption.

It's the TMZ'ing of the news!

[jtormey3]

9. D'Anne Leigh Mica Is A Mica Family Hypocrite

It was a Friday morning. D’Anne Leigh Mica blew a 0.198. That same Friday morning kids got on buses to go to school. She could have killed a kid - or anyone on the road, for that matter. It makes no difference what political party her Congressman-father is a member of. The key is, Congressman John Mica has for years cited his alleged anti-DUI position to his political advantage and is the Ranking Republican Member of the House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee - the same Committee that each of us look to, to keep American roadways safe. John and D’Anne Mica are hypocrites and losers, on the transportation-industry dole. Look at D’Anne’s “Mica Communications” client-list still published. And just because spoiled brat D’Anne gets her publicist-friends to blog to newspaper message-boards in her “defense”, doesn’t mean we need to listen to them. What we can do, though, is write the Girl Scouts of Citrus Council and ask them if they still want D’Anne Leigh Mica working as their publicist.