Allen West, GOP candidate for governor, calls wife's DWI arrest in Dallas "insidious"

[TexasTowelie]

by Kate McGee, Texas Tribune


The wife of Texas Republican gubernatorial candidate Allen West was arrested in Dallas County for allegedly driving while intoxicated Friday night, according to the Dallas Police Department and West himself.

Angela Graham-West, 61, was driving home from dinner at P.F. Changs with her three-month-old grandson when she was pulled over and arrested for a suspected DWI. She was charged with driving while intoxicated with a child under 15 years old.

Graham-West was released from jail around 1 p.m. Saturday, according to West, who posted a video on Instagram early Saturday morning from the Dallas County jail. In the video, West angrily denied his wife had been drinking.

West, the former head of the Texas Republican Party, said he had been in Waco having dinner with Ted Nugent when he returned to Dallas to find his wife had been arrested.

He said in the video that he had spoken with people who had dinner with his wife and grandson who told him she only had water and lemonade. West provided a photo of the receipt to the Tribune, which shows a lemonade, but lists no alcoholic beverages.

Read more: https://www.texastribune.org/2021/08/21/texas-candidate-allen-west-police/

[Sherman A1]

1. Insidious or perhaps more likely

Intoxicated, sometimes when we are drunk the words do not come out as easily as they should?

[jimfields33]

5. I don't know. Cops have been know to treat African Americans poorly

[Tomconroy]

2. Apparently she refused either a breath or a blood test

So the police had to get a warrant to draw blood. That must be why she was held so long

[sanatanadharma]

3. Well, what can I say, they brought the receipts

People who had dinner with his wife say she only had water and lemonade; photo of the receipt shows lemonade not alcohol.

And as we know, no one ever drinks anything anywhere other than at dinner restaurants.

[brewens]

4. She wasn't drinking. A male prostitute gave her some butt shots! LOL n/t

[70sEraVet]

6. I guess we need to wait to learn what her blood/alcohol level was.

[JT45242]

7. Normal to put booze on separate receipts

If anyone at the table was associated with the campaign, the alcoholic drinks would be on a separate receipt do that the food receipt could be reimbursed by the campaign.

When I travel for work, this is SOP, food on one receipt and alcohol on another.

You only refuse a breathalyzer if you think you are close to getting under the limit by making them wait.

[Paladin]

8. And West was in Waco, having dinner with Ted Nugent?

Words fail...

[Javaman]

14. I know, that got me too. nt

[Phoenix61]

9. May not have been alcohol. There are many

prescription medications that cause impairment not to mention medical conditions.

[Tomconroy]

11. The roadside tests are hard to do. Those alone aren't really

Determinative. But the blood will probably be tested for a variety of substances. And it's possible for a dui to be done under the influence of prescription drugs. Harder to prove though.

[Midnight Writer]

13. If she lives with Allen West, I wouldn't be surprised if she is on medication.

[Tomconroy]

10. Since the blood draw was probably done many hours

After she drank it may show a very low blood alcohol level. But if it shows anything she must have had a taste.

[Chainfire]

12. And can he prove that she was not sloshed when arriving at the dinner?

The old Republican fallback, denial, lies and coverups. He should make a fine Texas Governor.

People who are caught DWI are only caught when the odds catch up with them. 90 times out of a hundred, you will get away with it.
I have no more sympathy for drunk drivers than I would for someone who randomly shot a firearm into an occupied building.

[flying_wahini]

15. She does look sober in the video but failed to blow hard enough for testing.

Standard procedure for everyone. No reason she should get special treatment.
Maybe that what Mr. West Really wants.

[white cloud]

16. She has been the victim before LOL

https://www.sun-sentinel.com/news/politics/sfl-allen-west-warning-wife-20130417-story.html

[white cloud]

17. A little about Allen West Military history

a war crime
clearly illegal due to the UN Anti Torture Convention signed by Reagan in 1988. If the army could not tolerate what West did at the time when much abuse was mindlessly used for no good reason, he must have really been far out in his violence.

His article 15 trial versus Court Martial where he would have probably spent 11 to 20 years in prison for his crimes. Special treatment entitled DB.

https://www.aclu.org/files/projects/foiasearch/pdf/DODDOACID000105.pdf


https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Allen_West_(politician)#Iraq_interrogation_incident

[white cloud]

18. Video of her violations, FST, and arrest

[white cloud]

19. West made this comment to a breast cancer survivor

“You Ma’am are a cancer, do not EVER email me again,” West said, adding that Parks does “nothing but create chaos and confusion.”

https://www.texastribune.org/2021/07/07/allen-west-texas-gop/