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Questions About Kennedy Car Accident
Channel 9 WUSA ^ | 5/4/2006 | staff

Posted on 05/04/2006 2:12:34 PM PDT by Leisler

9 News has learned U.S. Capitol police officers are concerned about the handling of an accident involving Congressman Patrick Kennedy (D-Rhode Island) about 3 a.m. this morning.

Rep. Kennedy was reportedly behind the wheel of a green Ford Mustang when it crashed into a security barrier at 1st and "C" streets Southeast.

There are no reports of injuries. A Boston TV station is reporting Kennedy told officers he was late for a vote. We are told police drove him home after conferring with higher-ups in the department. So far, Kennedy HAS NOT been charged. A spokesman for his office told CNN that alcohol was NOT involved.

The head of the Fraternal Order of Police Lodge 1, Lou Cannon, told 9 News that he’s concerned that Kennedy may have received special treatment and this could be a case where “rank has its privilege.”

Cannon also told 9 News that officers noticed the car swerving, looking as if it was going to make a U-turn.

9 News reporter Stacey Cohan spoke to Kennedy's press secretary at his congressional office in Rhode Island, who said she is looking into the situation, but does not have any information right now.

Congressman Patrick Kennedy is Ted Kennedy's son. He is currently serving his sixth term as the Democratic Congressman from Rhode Island. He sits on the powerful House Appropriations Committee.


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; US: District of Columbia; US: Rhode Island
KEYWORDS: 109th; chivas; drunkenkennedy; drunkwriting; dwk; kennedy; kennedyfamily; pagesix; patches; patrickkennedy; tedkennedy
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To: nutmeg

WOW! That is the worst drunken chicken scratch I have ever seen!


41 posted on 05/04/2006 2:36:44 PM PDT by True Republican Patriot
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To: Leisler

Gotta keep up the "Family Tradition"!


42 posted on 05/04/2006 2:36:48 PM PDT by kaktuskid
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To: Bahbah

when has a kennedy ever admitting being drunk????


43 posted on 05/04/2006 2:36:49 PM PDT by xsmommy
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To: nutmeg

He had to be drunk or high when he wrote that. Illiterate would work too!


44 posted on 05/04/2006 2:37:06 PM PDT by CAluvdubya (What's so hard to understand about the word illegal?)
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To: Bahbah

"...he was going to a vote at 3 in the morning, and the police are ordered not to test him. Then he is whisked away."

I'm sure they took him straight to the capital, so he wouldn't miss his vote. ;)


45 posted on 05/04/2006 2:38:00 PM PDT by JeffersonRepublic.com (There is no truth in the news, and no news in the truth.)
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To: builder

BTTT


46 posted on 05/04/2006 2:38:18 PM PDT by Unicorn (Too many wimps around.)
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To: Leisler

Tweaker.


47 posted on 05/04/2006 2:38:46 PM PDT by Crawdad (So the guy says to the doctor, "It hurts when I do this.")
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To: chiefqc

"Fat, drunk, and stupid is no way to go through life, Congressman."

[R.I.P John Vernon]

48 posted on 05/04/2006 2:39:43 PM PDT by Slings and Arrows (Rachel Corrie's not dead - she's taking a CAT nap.)
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To: Jemian

The police need to be charged and somebody fired.


49 posted on 05/04/2006 2:39:49 PM PDT by Unicorn (Too many wimps around.)
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To: Leisler
A Boston TV station is reporting Kennedy told officers he was late for a vote.

It is no accident Patches used this particular excuse. It is not lawful for any local law enforcement officer to detain a member of Congress while he is on his way to carry out his duties at the Capitol. You can bet your bottom dollar that Patches' lawyers told him to always use this explanation when stopped by the Police. He was just parroting it back, except he failed to realize it made no sense at 3:00 AM.

50 posted on 05/04/2006 2:40:07 PM PDT by bondjamesbond (RICE 2008)
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To: bondjamesbond

That's because he had no idea it was 3:00 a.m........


51 posted on 05/04/2006 2:42:00 PM PDT by Dems_R_Losers
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To: oyez
And he won't be charged. Funny how the law works for the Kennedy's

And the Klintoons....and this little Peter Paul thinks he's going to get somewhere with them.

52 posted on 05/04/2006 2:42:03 PM PDT by Digger
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To: avacado

He ment to say he had been tossed out of the club and was on his way to sleep of the drinks he did not have before driving without lights into a marked barrier at 2.45AM


53 posted on 05/04/2006 2:42:21 PM PDT by colonialhk (sooprize sooprize sooprize)
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To: bondjamesbond

The barrier he apparently hit blocks the street that leads to the garages under the House office buildings where members park. Kennedy must have been trying to get back there and had no idea how late it was and forgot that the barriers go up after hours. I'll bet he turned the corner at a fairly high rate of speed and just ran into the barrier. He must have been pretty wigged out to not have known how late it was or forgotten about the barriers.


54 posted on 05/04/2006 2:44:46 PM PDT by Dems_R_Losers
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To: stylecouncilor

ping


55 posted on 05/04/2006 2:45:58 PM PDT by windcliff
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To: cardinal4

"What vote happens in the middle of the night?"


The vote on which bar to go to next.


56 posted on 05/04/2006 2:46:09 PM PDT by beans36 ("Truth, Justice and the American Way since 1961")
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To: Leisler
involving Congressman Patrick Kennedy (D-Rhode Island) about 3 a.m. this morning. A Boston TV station is reporting Kennedy told officers he was late for a vote

What was he voting on ..a pay raise for himself or a tax increase for everyone else or both?

57 posted on 05/04/2006 2:46:38 PM PDT by Don Corleone (Leave the gun..take the cannoli)
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To: Leisler

Isn't this the same Kennedy that assaulted a security guard at an airport check point?


58 posted on 05/04/2006 2:47:46 PM PDT by beans36 ("Truth, Justice and the American Way since 1961")
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To: Leisler

At 3 am, of course he was late for a vote! When was the last time the House stayed in session that late?

When interviewed by police, did Kennedy utter his famous line,
"Do you know who I am?" like he did the time he pushed a security guard at Raleigh-Durham Airport?


59 posted on 05/04/2006 2:48:25 PM PDT by TommyDale (North Carolina looks forward to the disbarring of Mike Nifong.)
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To: Leisler

"But I wasn't drunk(hiccup, hiccup) honest. I'm a Congressman and we always tell the truth. Besides, I'm late for a vote. Oh, it's 3a.m. is it. Well, my daddy said if I ever get caught driving drunk, just tell the police you're late for a vote. Works every time"...


60 posted on 05/04/2006 2:48:48 PM PDT by Mrs. Darla Ruth Schwerin
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