Posted on 04/09/2009 9:18:53 AM PDT by pissant
WASHINGTON (AP) - A top official with Mothers Against Drunk Driving is President Barack Obama's choice to lead the federal agency that oversees safety and fuel efficiency standards for automakers.
Chuck Hurley was nominated today to become administrator of the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration. He's served as MADD's chief executive officer since 2005 and has worked for the National Safety Council and Insurance Institute for Highway Safety.
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Commie Mommies
PLEASE GIVE TO MADD!!!
95% goes to salaries and 5% goes to putting forth draconian, unconstitutional laws.
He can try to choose anybody he wants, I guess. Democrats in Alaska are freaking out because Sarah Palin nominated a lawyer to a position (state AG?) who was an official with the NRA... Horrors!
Just like most left wing “charities” and “advocates”
And his qualifications are?
Considering we have a faux president who is less qualified for CIC than the average sophomore sorority girl, I’m thinking that’s not an issue.
He's a democrat male in a female labeled organization that ceaselessly promotes regulation?
Of course..another money grubbing whore.
And his qualifications are?
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Well he was a State Senator who voted “present”. Then he was elected a US Senator. Then he became the Obamessiah.
Oh wait. You mean Hurley.
He’s probably better qualified than Obama. Hell, I’M better qualified....
Let’s divert police to stop the 0.05 BAC drivers whose minimal impairment can’t be outwardly detected, so that the dangerous drunk at 0.15 BAC and higher can swerve by unnoticed while the cop is arresting his “perp.”
Betcha he’s a traffic lawyer.
What can we expect from this commie. Fill positions with dummies.
Wonderful. what’s the matter Obama, can’t they clone Hitler fast enough for you?
Have you heard about DAMM? Drunks against mad mothers...
I guess we can look at it this way, all the jr. fascists will be in position when Obama’s Hitler clone is ready.
It is threads like this that make Free Republic members look dumb.
Nobody really seems to know anything about this guy or what he has done, but because Obama appointed him to something Freepers start attacking him and the organization he was part of.
Obama appointed Bush’s Secretary of Defense (Robert Gates) to be his SOD. Did Gates suddently turn into a flamming lefty liberal? No.
Most people on here aren’t old enough to remember, but there was a time when drunk driving (and its consequences) was no big deal. It was a traffic violation. If you killed someone while driving drunk, the fact that you were drunk was a mitigating circumstance in your favor. The court went easier on you if you were drunk and ran someone down, than if you were sober and ran someone down.
MADD pretty much by itself changed the attitude (and laws) about drunk driving in this country. And it was not an easy change to make. They also keep track of judges that want to go easy on drunk drivers, letting people know who they are (if only we could get a group to do that for judges that go easy on people that commit murder.)
Nothing about this makes them a left wing group. If anything, they are a right wing get tough on crime group.
If you think the drunk driving laws are too tough and blame MADD, sorry you won’t get any sympathy from me. You’re free to put your own life at risk all you want, but not to put my life at risk by driving drunk.
And MADD is involved in other activity, including taking away your guns, as well. You know, because guns kill people. Just like Booze kills people, so we need to tax the crap out of it, and cigarettes, they cause lung cancer, so rather than ban them, lets tax the crap out of them too....
That's what MADD is all about. Taking away your RIGHTS. If someone is visibly impaired and kills someone, fine. There WERE laws already on the books to deal with that person. Instead, what is MADD responsible for? Making millions of others criminals that can handle their .08 level of alcohol.
MADD has recently been pushing to lower the drunk driving line to below the margin of error on most commonly used breathalyzers. If they succeed in that even people who’ve never had a drink in their life have a 50% shot at blowing drunk. If you don’t think that’s a problem sorry you won’t get any sympathy from me. And the guy in charge of that organization, and that push, is now nominated to be in charge of safety in America. Damn straight we’re attacking him.
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