Mary Kennedy (RFK Jr's wife) pleads not guilty to DWI, to surrender driver's license

Westchester Journal News | May 27, 2010 | Shawn Cohen and Jorge Fitz-Gibbon

[Zakeet]

Cannot excerpt the article because the newspaper is owned by Gannett, however you can read the story HERE.

Brief synopsis of the facts:

Mary Kennedy is Bobby Kennedy, Jr.'s wife.

She was busted for DWI on May 15 after she drove her car over a curb outside a school where she was going to attend a carnival. Her blood alcohol level tested 0.11 percent, well over the legal limit.

This comes after several other recent incidents where police were called to the family home to quell domestic disturbances -- in which Mary was also observed to be obviously drunk.

[supremedoctrine]

I’m surprised the Obama Administration hasn’t
‘saved or created’ a few thousand jobs for designated drivers for the extended Kennedy clan, on a rotating basis, but providing at least a once-a-week “on call” employment, and of course, a full benefit package.

[supremedoctrine]

I think she remarried.....I think it was Foster Brooks.
Just as drunk, but with no pretensions as to social significance.

[Vendome]

Binge Bridge Driving...

[raccoonradio]

She attended a speech given by her son Teddy Kennedy, Jr at Salem State College in MA, recently

>>Mother Joan interrupted at one point to note that she was descended from one of the victims of the Salem witch hysteria of 1692, Mary Eastey, who she said was hanged.

Ted Jr at SSC

Ted and Joan, before...--pic

From Boston magazine:
It was the blood that caught the attention of a passerby, a streak running down one side of the woman's face in a long red tear as she tried to hoist herself off the Beacon Street sidewalk. She looked like a disoriented street person who had wandered into the Back Bay from the nearby Boston Common. "She said she was okay, but she did not look okay," says Constance Bacon, who shielded the helpless woman from the rain as they waited for an ambulance. "She was conscious. She had just hit her head pretty hard. She knew that she had fallen and she tried to get up and she couldn't. So I just waited until the ambulance came. I had no idea who it was, that it was anything special."

It took little more than a day for Bacon—and the rest of the world—to find out that the woman she had helped had a last name recognized across the globe, that this bloody and disheveled person was the former model once nicknamed "the Dish" by her brother-in-law, the late President John F. Kennedy. As with other members of the Kennedy clan, notoriety was nothing new to her. Her fall, which resulted in a concussion and a broken shoulder, was the latest incident in a long and very public struggle Joan Bennett Kennedy has waged against alcoholism.

[The Comedian]

Kennedys and alcohol go together like Kennedys and treason.

Frowning takes 68 muscles.
Smiling takes 6.
Pulling this trigger takes 2.
I'm lazy.

[raccoonradio]

Wikipedia says both of Joan’s parents were alcoholics. Joan was introduced to Ted by Jean Kennedy

[Brad from Tennessee]

For decades the Kennedy family has given drug and alcohol abuse a bad name.

[csvset]

Thanks for posting that.