Posted on 04/04/2005 8:44:31 AM PDT by Diana in Wisconsin
State Senator Picked Up For OWI
MIDDLETON, WI -- A state Senator is in hot water after being picked up for drunken driving Tuesday night.
Middleton police picked up Russ Decker on University Avenue for operating while intoxicated shortly before 11 p.m.
Decker, who is a senator for the 29th District (near Schofield), issued a statement saying he deeply regrets "driving while impaired."
"I used bad judgment," the statement reads. "I cooperated fully with law enforcement officials and will continue to do so through the legal process. I would like to sincerely apologize to my family, the people of the 29th Senate District and my colleagues."
Decker is due in municipal court April 21.
He is the third state official facing drunken driving charges in the recent past.
State Rep. Frank Boyle pleaded no contest to the charge. Maple Bluff police picked up the Superior Democrat Dec. 5 after he got his car hung up on a concrete parking barrier while trying to get home.
Squad car video shows Boyle stumbling badly while trying to walk a straight line. Maple Bluff police said Boyle had a BAC of 0.18. The state's legal limit is 0.08.
State Attorney General Peg Lautenschlager was cited for drunken driving in February after she drove a state-owned car off the road and into a Dodge County ditch en route from Madison to her Fond du Lac home. She had been out drinking at a Madison bar and said she only had two glasses of wine. Her blood alcohol level was .12.
Stay tuned for "slap on the wrist" punishments for these upstanding, moral leaders of the Wisconsin Democratic Party. *Rolleyes*
What's OWI? Oinking With Idiots?.......
The covering of t*rds in the catbox begins. If this drunk driver were Republican, you can bet your life that s/he'd be smeared from one end of our media to the other, and hung by sunset. Infuriating! Grrrr!
Officials Won't Release Lawmaker's Arrest Report
Sen. Russ Decker Apologizes For Conduct
POSTED: 4:24 pm CST April 1, 2005
UPDATED: 4:49 pm CST April 1, 2005
MADISON, Wis. -- Middleton police are refusing to release the drunken driving arrest report for state Sen. Russ Decker.
Decker apologized for his arrest, which occurred after he left an all-you-can-drink party held by tavern lobbyists in Madison late Tuesday.
Government watchdogs said police are taking advantage of a state Supreme Court decision in 1991 that exempts police reports from the state's open records law.
Gov. Jim Doyle last month called for the law to be changed, saying the exemption is too sweeping.
The exemption was also used to seal the records of the arrest of Rep. Frank Boyle for drunken driving in December.
http://www.channel3000.com/news/4339467/detail.html?rss=c3k&psp=news
Must be a midwest term?
And did he condemn Bush like the "so drunk I killed a girl" Chappaquiddick Kennedy did when Bush's youthful DUI indiscretion was announced? Hmmmm?????
Operating While Intoxicated. (OWI) Like Driving Under the Influence. (DUI) Must be a mid-west thang.
"..stumbled badly while trying to walk a straight line"
Stumbled badly at 0.18? What a wimp!
I'm NOT TRYING to defend democrats. And not that I don't think they'd skewer John Gard in a most evil fashion if he ever got picked up for DUI, but I do recall that Mike Ellis (Republican) endured scant coverage of his DUI in 2003. Recall the media just went to TOWN on democrat Peg Lautenschlager (while Doyle left her twisting in the wind).
"Russ Decker D, WI"
LOL!
Make that Russ Decker, DWI.
It seems this is a hazard of representing the Milwaukee constituency, hey?
Then you would be truly OWI - operating while intoxicated.
Florida's term is DUI, Driving Under the Influence. Can apply to drugs as well as alcohol and skateboards and bicycles as well as cars and motorcycles.........
"Operating While Intoxicated"
Sounds like an operating room term. Is he a doctor too?
Your brother?
LOL good one!
I don't think so - probably wouldn't work that cheaply!
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