Posted on 01/19/2012 6:14:12 PM PST by Behind Liberal Lines
U.S. Rep. Maurice Hinchey, a Hurley Democrat who has served in the House since 1993, will not seek re-election this fall, his office announced on Wednesday. On the eve of his retirement press conference, Hinchey's wife was charged with her second DWI in just eight months in Albany....
She was charged with driving while intoxicated, driving while using a mobile phone, aggravated unlicensed operation of a motor vehicle and following too closely....
Mrs. Hinchey, a lobbyist for DKC, was arrested for drunken driving last May in the Ulster County town of Hurley, where she and her husband live, and ultimately pleaded guilty to a reduced charge. The suspension of her license was part of the penalty in that case.
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I’ll drink to his retirement but can a Republican win the seat?
I hope Mrs Hinchey gets the help she needs. I hope Maurice stays out of office for good and retires completely from DC. He is rotten. He is an awful man, in a city of awful men.
I think that redistricters will take advantage of Hinchey’s retirement to parcel off that monstrosity of a district among several CDs. Maybe they’ll give all of Buffalo to Brian Higgins and compensate Rochester’s Louise Slaughter (whose CD takes in part of Buffalo) by giving her Ithaca (personally, I’d love it if they packed every Dem precinct from Rochester, Syracuse, Ithaca and the Finger Lakes into a single district, leaving surrounding CDs comfortably Republican).
How could this happen? The law:
As of August 15, 2010, New York state requires a person sentenced for Driving While Intoxicated have an ignition interlock device installed on any vehicle they own or operate, and the driver have an “ignition interlock” restriction added to their driver license.[9]
Rules for thee, not for me?
(yea I see she pleaded down)
Facing retirement with him may be what sent her off the rails.
Good riddance. I feared Hinchey from the very first time he announced his run for Congress due to his very socialist attitudes, and my belief that in this congressional district he would be impossible to defeat. My fears proved accurate, unfortunately.
I hear it is quite likely that this ridiculous gerrymander is going to be the “sacrificed” dem district now during reapportionment.
BTTT!
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