24-Hour Transportation Service For Drunk CA Senators Paid For By Taxpayers

CBS San Francisco ^ | May 30, 2015

[nickcarraway]

California senators too drunk to drive can turn to a 24-hour ride service funded by taxpayers, a local newspaper reports.

State records show that the California Senate hired in February two part-time employees whose duties include “ground transportation for Senate members.” The employees are paid $2,532 per month, the Sacramento Bee reported.

The service comes after high-profile arrests of lawmakers on suspicion of drunken driving. Four lawmakers in the last five years have been accused of drunk driving, including three on streets around the Capitol.

[a fool in paradise]

Kennedy Cabs...

[easternsky]

Late night chuckle, thanks

[Michael.SF.]

LOL

Good one!!

[5th MEB]

Imagine that.

[pepsionice]

If you are too drunk to drive....aren’t you too drunk to legislate?

[blackdog]

$30K for part time work on your non fiction novel about politicians who think they are royalty?

Not bad work if you need source material. No need to hire fact checkers either.

[truth_seeker]

Why not just call Uber??

[blackdog]

I lived in Appleton Wisconsin. I stopped at "The Bar" for lunch one day and the bartender made a huge shaker of martinis with a plate of olives, placed in front of an empty bar stool. In walks this man who hops on his stool and downs three and eats the olives while she mixed the next batch. He drank six double martinis in twenty minutes and left.

I asked the bartender who the heck that was? She explained that was Judge so and so, of the Outagamie County Court, on his lunch break. And "yes" she said, "he presides over DUI cases every day, even though he can barely walk back to court"

[South40]

Too late for some.

California state Senator Ben Hueso arrested after DUI stop

[pepsionice]

These had to be watered-down double-martinis....a normal guy can’t gulp down six in 30 minutes and do much of anything.

[faithhopecharity]

Verily, there’s very little new under the sun. The first California legislature in 1850 was know as “the Legislature of a thousand drinks” because of how senators would be drunk and even pass out on the floor. (Note: that first legislature set up the entire legal system for the new state, a far far far more accomplished record of public service, albeit while drunk, than the current bunch of sots, by fat)

[Secret Agent Man]

Maybe next they’ll install vomitoriums for the Senators so they can gorge together, and have a nice place to hurl afterwards.

[vette6387]

Kevin de Leon and his beaner buddies have managed to turn the California Legislature into a clode of Mexico’s. Kevin es boracho, no? Yo lo creo que si.

[BBell]

File this under “you can’t make this stuff up.”

[blackdog]

Our founding fathers covered as much in politics as they did in beer, wine, and whiskey recipes. Some say it was what brought them together.

[blackdog]

That was the good thing about colonial times. Your horse always knew the way back home.

[BigEdLB]

It is NOT news that the State Senate is perpetually drunk.

[OttawaFreeper]

While I am no Prohibitionist, I am beginning to find the seemingly growing culture of spending and alcohol consumption among politicians very disturbing. I can remember about a couple of years ago, John Lott discussed about how the movement towards gun control (which ended up dying at the starting gate anyway) in Congress following Sandy Hook started with a compromise reached among some members aboard a large yacht (basically a floating bar). Apparently, it is fully stocked and Congress and Senate can go there anytime to drink and discuss business and do so quite often. Also, there have been recent studies that show that the federal government’s booze tab has gone up quite considerably during the last few years, so this article adds to this rather dismal picture, doesn’t it?

[TangoLimaSierra]

Also, there have been recent studies that show that the federal government’s booze tab has gone up quite considerably during the last few years...

Remember Pelosi's tax-paid jet and the tremendous amount of booze she charged us for?