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State Senator Picked Up For OWI (Russ Decker, D, WI)
WISC TV Channel 3000 ^ | March 31, 2005 | Staff Writer

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.


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This is the THIRD State Official picked up for OWI in our state in the past year. (All Democrats.) Think our legislators will start toughening up our drunk driving laws? Yeah, right.

Stay tuned for "slap on the wrist" punishments for these upstanding, moral leaders of the Wisconsin Democratic Party. *Rolleyes*

1 posted on 04/04/2005 8:44:31 AM PDT by Diana in Wisconsin
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To: Diana in Wisconsin

What's OWI? Oinking With Idiots?.......


3 posted on 04/04/2005 8:48:11 AM PDT by Red Badger (I'd rather be a Crack-er than a Crack Ho........)
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To: Diana in Wisconsin

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


4 posted on 04/04/2005 8:48:24 AM PDT by Diana in Wisconsin (Save The Earth. It's The Only Planet With Chocolate.)
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To: Red Badger; Diana in Wisconsin
Operating While Intoxicated

Must be a midwest term?

5 posted on 04/04/2005 8:49:07 AM PDT by RushCrush (Requiem in pacem, Karol Wojtyla.)
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To: Diana in Wisconsin
A state Senator is in hot water after being picked up for drunken driving Tuesday night.

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?????

6 posted on 04/04/2005 8:50:37 AM PDT by concerned about politics (Vote Republican - Vote morally correct!)
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To: Diana in Wisconsin
Another data point confirming that the media identifies the party of an official caught in wrongdoing only where that official is not a Democrat.
7 posted on 04/04/2005 8:51:59 AM PDT by thoughtomator ("The Passion of the Opus" - 2 hours of a FReeper being crucified on his own self-pitying thread)
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To: William Creel

Operating While Intoxicated. (OWI) Like Driving Under the Influence. (DUI) Must be a mid-west thang.


8 posted on 04/04/2005 8:56:15 AM PDT by Diana in Wisconsin (Save The Earth. It's The Only Planet With Chocolate.)
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To: Diana in Wisconsin

"..stumbled badly while trying to walk a straight line"


Stumbled badly at 0.18? What a wimp!


9 posted on 04/04/2005 8:59:53 AM PDT by RightResponse (What if the Left, just got up and .....)
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To: RightResponse
Heh, that's so true. I could do surgery at that blood alcohol level.
10 posted on 04/04/2005 9:06:45 AM PDT by KoRn (~Halliburton Told Me......)
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To: Diana in Wisconsin

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).



11 posted on 04/04/2005 9:11:40 AM PDT by Electrowoman
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To: Diana in Wisconsin

"Russ Decker D, WI"

LOL!
Make that Russ Decker, DWI.


12 posted on 04/04/2005 9:20:58 AM PDT by cloud8 (I don’t do carrots. --John Bolton)
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To: Diana in Wisconsin
He is the third state official facing drunken driving charges in the recent past.

It seems this is a hazard of representing the Milwaukee constituency, hey?

13 posted on 04/04/2005 9:26:21 AM PDT by Ghengis (Alexander was a wuss!)
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To: KoRn
Heh, that's so true. I could do surgery at that blood alcohol level.

Then you would be truly OWI - operating while intoxicated.

14 posted on 04/04/2005 9:50:37 AM PDT by knittnmom
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To: RushCrush

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.........


15 posted on 04/04/2005 10:07:17 AM PDT by Red Badger (I'd rather be a Crack-er than a Crack Ho........)
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To: Diana in Wisconsin
It is different when the ruling class is charged with a serious offense than it is when one of the little people are. My guess is they will all get of with probation and a fine. (to be paid by the taxpayer) It don't matter if they are Democrat or Republican. Neither Jankelow (sp?) or Kennedy spent a day in jail after they KILLED someone. What do any of you think would happen if it were you or I?
16 posted on 04/04/2005 10:11:30 AM PDT by Bar-Face
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To: RushCrush

"Operating While Intoxicated"

Sounds like an operating room term. Is he a doctor too?


17 posted on 04/04/2005 10:14:15 AM PDT by RobRoy (Child support and maintenence (alimony) are what we used to call indentured slavery)
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To: OWK
State Senator Picked Up For OWI

Your brother?

18 posted on 04/04/2005 10:15:49 AM PDT by Lazamataz (Cleverly Arranging 1's And 0's Since 11110111011...)
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To: 80 Square Miles

LOL good one!


19 posted on 04/04/2005 10:19:01 AM PDT by KoRn (~Halliburton Told Me......)
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To: RobRoy
Is he a doctor too?

I don't think so - probably wouldn't work that cheaply!

20 posted on 04/04/2005 10:28:56 AM PDT by knittnmom
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