Wisconsin AG's Police Arrest Video and Press Conference

TMJ4 Report ^ | 2-26-04

[Indy Pendance]

Peg Lautenschlager's Arrest Video

Wisconsin Attorney General Peg Lautenschlager apologizes in news conference following her guilty plea to drunk driving.

[DManA]

Here's the lesson we should learn from the chief law enforcment officer of Ws. If arrested, do not cooperate. Refuse to say or do anything until your lawyer shows up.

I guess that's the smart thing.

[HRC]

Anyone want to bet that the fact she is a (D) will not make the news? If this was a Republican AG, this would be front news all over the country.
NAAG

[BlazingArizona]

Does this mean that Wisconsin will steal her car and strip her assets?

Oh, wait - that treatment is just for peons.

[July 4th]

Does this mean that Wisconsin will steal her car and strip her assets?

That would be kind of funny, since I think she was driving a state-owned vehicle. (whoops!)

[Indy Pendance]

(Wisconsin Attorney General) Lautenschlager arrested for DUI

"A Democrat, she is a former state legislator and U.S. attorney appointed by former President Clinton. She was elected the state's first female attorney general in 2002.

[george wythe]

I'll pay good money for the video of Janet Reno being stopped for driving while drunk and being let go while she was a State Attorney in Miami.

I guess I'll have to wait a long time to see it.

[Ronaldus Magnus]

Thanks for the link. Her video "apology" was completely self-centered. She spent most of it talking about what a "difficult day" Tuesday had been for her and how "we all" need to work harder to make drunk driving less of a problem. She only admitted making "bad decision", not that she had broken the law.

The video can be archived (11 Mbytes) by right clinking here.

[NotJustAnotherPrettyFace]

This should be required viewing for lots of people: parents whose teenager kids are just getting their drivers licenses, people at AA meetings, etc. etc. etc.

[NotJustAnotherPrettyFace]

Yes, you're right. Not once did she say she was sorry for having actually broken the law. Amazing for an Attorney General, huh?

[Indy Pendance]

It's all about her feelings, her mistake, blah, blah, blah. Taking full responsibility would be resigning.

[rj45mis]

"It's all about her feelings, her mistake, blah, blah, blah. Taking full responsibility would be resigning."

I agree. That is very typical of how leftists handle their mistakes. They seek to elicit an emotional "you poor thing" response from the very people they are disgusted by under other circumstances.

[An American In Dairyland]

>>That would be kind of funny, since I think she was driving a state-owned vehicle. (whoops!)<<

That means she was driving *my* car. Note in the video at the end she apologizes to everyone BUT the citizens of Wisconsin. Not even to the stoopid Demoncrats who put her in office (of which I am not one).

I accept her apology (such as it was) as an individual woman who screwed up and regrets it. However, as the highest law enforcement officer of my state, I demand she resign.

[FR_addict]

Pleading guilty and accepting the consequences of her plea is taking responsibilty. I think she did a good job in her apology.

Let's be fair. She took responsibility much better than the Republican Congressman who killed the motorcyclist.

U.S. Rep. Bill Janklow (R-South Dakota) pleaded not guilty on Friday, September 26, to felony manslaughter and other charges related to the death of motorcyclist Randolph Scott.

[Indy Pendance]

She never once admitted to breaking the law she was elected to uphold, and plus arrested while driving a state vehicle. If this would have been a republican AG, or Ashcroft, this story would be breaking news on every media outlet. And their jobs would be ruined. This is more about the attack mode of the liberals against conservatives, it's a double standard they strive for.

[blackdog]

The bitch in the ditch needs to understand that everyone is "sorry" they were caught driving while intoxicated. She's no variation to the club.

Since she accepts full responsibility for her actions I guess she'll be fired from her job gig. It's tough to ride a bike to and from her compound in Fondulac to Madison every day. And how would "taking full responsibility" involve using a state paid driver to provide her her transportation?

[Indy Pendance]

She can apply for an occupational license, which she'll probably be granted, and she'll still get to drive her tax payer vehicle, which, insurance rates will remain the same. Only her personal insurance will rise, if she even opts to use her own car.

[Indy Pendance]

Just a little background on what's being covered up here.

Lautenschlager: AG's alcohol level was 0.12 (Wisconsin Democrat - Won't Quit)

Lautenschlager told the deputy she had a couple glasses of wine at a Madison tavern, consuming her last one at about 10 p.m. She also said she had taken a tablet of the muscle relaxant Flexeril at about 4 p.m. Flexeril, which has a therapeutic cycle of about eight hours, can enhance the effects of alcohol.

Criminal Number 18F

Wow, just a fine and a loss of licence? To me the serious thing is the Cyclobenzaprine (Flexeril) abuse. It is a powerful drug, NOT to be combined with alcohol. If she was taking that and drinking she is probably a pretty heavy abuser of prescription drugs.

Cyclobenzaprine is a powerful muscle relaxant. It's often given for joint pain, soft tissue damage, tendinitis. The standard boilerplate on the package from your pharmacist will say, "do not drive or operate machinery." And there are extremely strict cautions against combining it with alcohol. For most people it's not a problem because it slows them down enough to put them right to sleep.

The interactions are listed as: "Alcohol and other CNS [Central Nervous System] Depressants potentiated." What that means is it makes the effect of booze much more powerful. The booze also enhances the drug. If you were to take a Flexeril and then go boozing, you would feel like you were going 70 when you were only going 30 (like our Peg). And if you needed to react to anything, your arms would be too rubbery to turn the wheel and legs too rubbery to work the brakes.

And then, why do you want to take this stuff in the first place: "adverse reactions are drowsiness, confusion, dizziness, weakness, fatigue, headache, hypotension, nausea, etc..."

This lady is a serious and extreme drug abuser... the people of Wisconsin are probably not safe unless she turns in her licence for good, or does a good inpatient rehab (30 days or so). Otherwise she's gonna do it again. It was blind luck she didn't kill anyone... she had no more control over that car than if she was in the back seat.

d.o.l.

Criminal Number 18F

Flexeril

[Glenn]

She admitted her guilt. She'll accept her punishment. I can live with that. No sense beating people up when they do the right thing. And this was the right thing.

[Colonel_Flagg]

For most people it's not a problem because it slows them down enough to put them right to sleep.

Boy, can I speak to this. I was put on Flexiril for a time when I was in college due to a back injury. After I took one I had half an hour to get wherever I was going because after that I was sound asleep.

Thankfully for me, I took the bus to and from school.