(Wisconsin Attorney General) Lautenschlager arrested for DUI

Milwaukee Journal Sentinel ^ | Feb. 24, 2004 | STEVEN WALTERS

[spunkets]

The meaning was that she should have called before she got on the road.

[wisconsinconservative]

online poll at WTMJ: http://www.wtmj.com/

O N L I N E P O L L

When it comes to her drunken driving case, should Wisconsin Attorney General Peg Lautenschlager be held to a higher standard than other members of the public?

Yes (70.4%)
No (29.6%)
Total Votes: 277

[PBRSTREETGANG]

Lautenschlager and Goldschlager don't mix well, apparently.

[wisconsinconservative]

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O N L I N E P O L L

Should Wisconsin Attorney General Peg Lautenschlager resign in the wake of her arrest for drunk driving in a state vehicle?

Yes (94.2%)
No (5.8%)
Total Votes: 172

[Dan from Michigan]

Lautenschlager? Sounds more like Goldschalger(a brand of schnapps)......

[Osage Orange]

You wrote:

"I predict she will resign."

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I predict she will give a hand-wringing apology...And that will be the end of it.

Here in Okla. we've recently had the Leader of the State Senate...Cal Hobson...legislating drunk on the Senate floor...and the State Insurance Commissioner...Carrol Fisher...driving a state car while drunk...Both these guys apologized and have been "forgiven".

My guess is that if they both had had "R's" behind their names...the media would have demanded their "pound of flesh". And nothing short of resignation would have shut them up.

FWIW--

[HerrKobes]

They don't say what road she was on, but the logical assumption is US151. Can anyone describe the road? Is it a divided highway or two lane and if it is divided, what is the median like?

Ummm... I haven't driven up there in a year or two, but I believe that between Madison and Fond du Lac, US-151 is a divided highway with a grass median. That's what I seem to remember, at least. As someone who's not originally from Wisconsin, and is here for only a few short years, I thankfully don't venture out of Madison much except to visit friends or go to weddings in small towns. Although I can drive between here and Minneapolis with my eyes shut.

According to local Madison news sources, she was drinking at The Pub, probably my LEAST favorite bar here on State Street. Definitely not the place where I'd expect the AG to be drinking wine.

[Osage Orange]

You wrote:

""Madison - State Attorney General Peg Lautenschlager, a Republican who enjoyed support from Wisconsin's law enforcement community during the election due to her husband's standing as a retired high ranking law enforcement official, said today that she was arrested for drunken driving in Dodge County while returning to her Fond du Lac home from the Capitol on Monday. Lautenschlager ran on a strict platform of toughening Wisconsin's existing drunk driving laws.""

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Nice work...but you forgot the following:........................a retired high ranking law enforcement official, said today that she was arrested for drunken driving in Dodge County while returning to her exclusive up-scale lake-side gated, Fond du Lac home from the Capitol on Monday

[blackdog]

Anybody wanna bet the evening's tab for libations for scores of political tag-a-longs at the place of consumption was picked up on a state charge card?

Can anyone aks someone at the state to interview the establishment/s and take a look-see at the tab?

[blackdog]

The credit card receipt shall tell us all so much............

The bitch in the ditch may have just ran into a glitch!

[gorush]

"According to local Madison news sources, she was drinking at The Pub,..."

I heard it was at "The Public House", but that report was on a local TV channel...I can't see her stopping in at The Pub either. (I was always a Plaza person myself, it's the burger...and the Guinness Extra Stout, certainly not the atmosphere...post upstairs bowling alley closure of course)

[Xenalyte]

On dimpled chads or punch ballots, how come they don't fingerprint each one in contested intent?

Two reasons.

First, it's harder to lift prints than TV and the movies make it look, and the odds of getting a complete - or even a usable partial - are relatively small.

Second, so what if fingerprints show up? The ballots don't feed themselves into the vote-counting machine; someone has to feed them, and probably not wearing gloves while so doing.

[blackdog]

No, punch card ballots are just stack fed into counters. Nobody handles them on an individual basis. Besides, it's the lack of any print that I'm commenting on. That or the profile of the prints on an average ballot should run similar on dimpled or mass punched ballots. If there are none, that's proof they were punched in bulk.

[Landru]

"Nice work..."

Well thank you Osage Orange, that's a hellova nice thing to say.
Great way to make your acquaintance, too.

...but you forgot the following:"

Ohhhhh?
Well let's see.

"...a retired high ranking law enforcement official, said today that she was arrested for drunken driving in Dodge County while returning to her exclusive up-scale lake-side gated, Fond du Lac home from the Capitol on Monday."

HA!!
Yea, I see what you mean.
I did omit spin errrr *facts* critical to smearing the imaginary Republican AG that a "real" Liberal-Socialist quisling sycophant urinalist would never have missed, didn't I.

All I can say in my defense, is that I was trying to emulate a lapdog Liberal-Socialist quisling sycophant urinalist.

And to my credit?

...I failed. {g}

[blackdog]

How many other state employees did she liquor up before turning them and herself loose to kill small children on the highway?

People of power don't do anything alone or without their "Yes" squad in tow. Who else was with her while imbibing alchohol (and at the taxpayer's expense)?

[BraveMan]

Updated story here . . .

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Records show that Lautenschlager paid four traffic fines between 1995 and 2000. In a 2000 incident, she was originally cited for speeding in Racine County, but it was amended to speedometer violations, for which she paid a $150 forfeiture. That came five months after she paid $199 for a Dodge County speeding violation. She also paid forfeitures for speeding in 1995 and 1998.

Lautenschlager isn't the first Wisconsin attorney general to be arrested for drunken driving. In 1981, then-Attorney General Bronson C. La Follette was convicted of drunken driving in Waukesha County and fined $231.

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[mafree]

Records show that Lautenschlager paid four traffic fines between 1995 and 2000. In a 2000 incident, she was originally cited for speeding in Racine County, but it was amended to speedometer violations, for which she paid a $150 forfeiture. That came five months after she paid $199 for a Dodge County speeding violation. She also paid forfeitures for speeding in 1995 and 1998.

Don't recall any of this coming out during the campaign. Methinks an AG candidate ought to be cleaner than the rest of us. Heck, I've only had one speeding ticket in my life so maybe I should be AG before her.

[HerrKobes]

Ah yes, the Public House is about two blocks away from where I live. Never been there, but have some friends who go religiously. I should probably check it out.

On the other hand, the Plaza is the regular place for a bunch of people I work with. I make it every once in a while, but unfortunately end up at Brats far more than I'd like to admit.

I feel like a criminal for still not having tried the Plaza Burger.

[Osage Orange]

You wrote:

"And to my credit?

...I failed. {g} "

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I thought your post was spot-on. Just thought I'd throw some sort of typical lib-bias condiment on it....

It's sometimes hard to think like a MarxistSocialistDemoLib.... when your keel is true. I was just trying to help....in my own small way......(g)

Best FRegards,

[Landru]

"It's sometimes hard to think like a MarxistSocialistDemoLib...when your keel is true."

True-true.
But I found it a lot easier to think like a Liberal-Socialist if ya administer to yourself a partial lobotomy, to which an ice pick works quite nicey.

Of course if one wanted to think like a Liberal-Socialist quisling sycophant *urinalist*?
Well that's an entirely different story and one that'd require a complete lobotomy.
But that's as bad as it gets since ya can use the same ice pick for either procedure.

"I was just trying to help...in my own small way...(g)"

Yes you were, & duely noted too.
"One small contribution, one vast leap..." & all that, eh?

"Best FRegards,"

...& back at'cha, Osage. ;^)