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2naSalit

(86,609 posts)
Thu Jan 3, 2013, 08:03 PM Jan 2013

Following Crapo's DUI...

Last edited Fri Jan 4, 2013, 01:59 PM - Edit history (1)

He may have to get an ignition lock that analyses his breath before allowing vehicle to start! A rule in VA but not in Idaho, he would have never faced public announcement of his drinking and driving, probably happened before there.

http://www.idahostatesman.com/2013/01/01/2398114/crapo-may-have-to-get-ignition.html


And, though you won't find this in ANY newspaper in Idaho, lawmakers from that state will receive ethics training!!! LOL!!

http://www.spokesman.com/stories/2012/dec/01/lawmakers-to-receive-formal-ethics-training/?CFID=2298544&CFTOKEN=93470554&jsessionid=f030340a36f55d5e7f8e3c7c6c327db29376

And just to make sure they never have to do this again, the Idaho State legislature wants to make sure citizens can't file ethics complaints against them:

http://www.spokesman.com/stories/2011/feb/15/idaho-house-amends-ethics-rules/

http://www.spokesman.com/stories/2011/feb/09/house-panel-approves-rule-to-prevent-citizens/

Life in the Tea-bagger states in the west...

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Update:

Even worse than having been at a holiday party where he might have inadvertently been drinking as a fluke, he says he was at home drinking which implies that he does that regularly...

http://usnews.nbcnews.com/_news/2013/01/04/16349121-sen-crapo-pleads-guilty-to-dwi-seeks-forgiveness-and-repentance?lite

So he is chronic drinker... and that's a big no-no for people of his "faith".

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Following Crapo's DUI... (Original Post) 2naSalit Jan 2013 OP
Was Idahos former US Senator taking a Crapo when he was at Minneapolis 6 years ago. NPolitics1979 Jan 2013 #1
No, he had his own "thing" going on there. 2naSalit Jan 2013 #4
Sounds like a good law to me.. Cha Jan 2013 #2
Can't argue with that. 2naSalit Jan 2013 #6
Ignition interlocks Joe Shlabotnik Jan 2013 #3
As an Update... 2naSalit Jan 2013 #5
Thanks for keeping after Crap0, 2naSalit Cha Jan 2013 #7

2naSalit

(86,609 posts)
4. No, he had his own "thing" going on there.
Fri Jan 4, 2013, 01:48 PM
Jan 2013

I was a resident of Idaho at the time that happened and we didn't have a good Sen/constituent relationship. He and the former Gov/Sen/Sec of State/now lobbyist hated me and knew me on sight. Most of we Idahoans that weren't fond of him refer to him as Senator Wide-Stance.

Cha

(297,220 posts)
2. Sounds like a good law to me..
Thu Jan 3, 2013, 09:27 PM
Jan 2013
"He may have to get an ignition lock that analyses his breath before allowing vehicle to start!"

Plain and simple.. Crapo got busted. That's disgraceful considering his hypocrisy.

2naSalit

(86,609 posts)
5. As an Update...
Fri Jan 4, 2013, 01:52 PM
Jan 2013

He plead "no contest" and was sentenced to 1 year suspended license and a whopping $250 fine. Of course now we taxpayers will be providing him with unlimited livery/chauffeur services. He's such a schmuck... and a well practiced liar. I've caught him in the act and blasted him in several news outlets when he was new to the Senate. He spent the next three days issuing counter statements.

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