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Police: Sen. Crapo registered blood alcohol content of .110
Idaho Press ^ | December 24, 2012

Posted on 12/24/2012 5:58:59 AM PST by SoFloFreeper

Police in Alexandria, Va., said Sunday that the Idaho Republican was pulled over after his vehicle ran a red light. Police spokesman Jody Donaldson said Crapo failed field sobriety tests and was arrested at about 12:45 a.m. He was transported to the Alexandria jail and released on an unsecured $1,000 bond at about 5 a.m....

Police said Crapo, who was alone in his vehicle, registered a blood alcohol content of .110. The legal limit in Virginia, which has strict drunken driving laws, is .08.

(Excerpt) Read more at m.idahopress.com ...


TOPICS: Culture/Society; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; US: Idaho
KEYWORDS: 112th; alcohol; chappaquiddick; crapo; drinking; dui; media
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To: SoFloFreeper
He is a Republican and will be torched by the media, unlike Patches Kennedy who was given a pass and lauded for his stand on globull warming.
21 posted on 12/24/2012 6:19:02 AM PST by vetvetdoug
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To: Dr. Bogus Pachysandra

Precisely.


22 posted on 12/24/2012 6:19:08 AM PST by hellinahandcart
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To: SoFloFreeper

Crapo had told The Associated Press in past interviews that he abstains from drinking alcohol.

Crapo, who was elected in 1998 and is in his third Senate term, is expected to take over the top Republican spot next year on the Senate Banking Committee. He also serves on the Senate’s budget and finance panels and has been active on environmental and health issues.
http://www.mercurynews.com/nation-world/ci_22253777/dui-charge-mormon-senator-michael-crapo

I know this won’t come off sounding quite right....but what an easy thing to ‘create.’

I mean with the way the world is today about so many things that are ‘bad’ for you from smoking to yes...even drinking and driving.

What is to stop a unionized government employee from faking the results of the field sobriety test? Democrats know that conservatives can’t stand having these kinds of irresponsible “drunks, womanizers, etc.” within the ranks. Republicans must be held as ‘holier than thou’ types, right?


23 posted on 12/24/2012 6:19:32 AM PST by EBH (0bama is guilty of willful neglect of duty.)
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To: EBH

He held himself up as a “holier than thou” type.

That’s the problem.

HHC’s husband


24 posted on 12/24/2012 6:21:12 AM PST by hellinahandcart
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To: Dr. Bogus Pachysandra; hellinahandcart

““a blood alcohol limit of .1100000?””

I meant to say;
“print that he had a blood level CONTENT of .1100000.”

Need coffee!


25 posted on 12/24/2012 6:26:17 AM PST by Dr. Bogus Pachysandra ( Ya can't pick up a turd by the clean end!)
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To: hellinahandcart
First lesson is don't drink and drive drunk. Crapo’s mistake was not the fact he blew, not the fact he failed the Field Sobriety Tests, not the fact he ran a red light. His mistake was drunk then getting behind the wheel of a vehicle. (And yes, .11 is drunk)

I know Kennedy was a drunk and was people covered for him for years, but Kennedy's piss poor behavior is not an excuse for another senator to act like an ass.

My wife and kids drive. If you're drunk, don't drive and put my family at risk.

26 posted on 12/24/2012 6:30:35 AM PST by dpa5923 (Small minds talk about people, normal minds talk about events, great minds talk about ideas.)
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To: Zakeet; Elsie; colorcountry

http://www.standard.net/stories/2012/12/23/idaho-us-senator-arrested-dui

Shocking I tell you! Just Shocking!


27 posted on 12/24/2012 6:31:07 AM PST by Utah Binger (Southern Utah where the world comes to see America)
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To: dpa5923

I quit drinking and solved the problem for good.


28 posted on 12/24/2012 6:33:13 AM PST by cripplecreek (REMEMBER THE RIVER RAISIN!)
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To: Zakeet; Elsie; colorcountry

Poor dude couldn’t stop for a cup of coffee; against the WOW.


29 posted on 12/24/2012 6:35:08 AM PST by Utah Binger (Southern Utah where the world comes to see America)
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To: Dr. Bogus Pachysandra

Don’t worry. Most people don’t understand decimals. They don’t know if there is a difference between .11 and .110 or .1100.

I’ve seen people in graduate school who can’t tell you which is larger, .170 or .71. Many of them explain their answers this way: “Everything works backwards to the right of the decimal.”


30 posted on 12/24/2012 6:38:20 AM PST by ladyjane (For the first time in my life I am not proud of my country.)
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To: SoFloFreeper

I am going to give him a small credit for two things:

One, he did not refuse the sobriety tests

Two, he didn’t claim that he could not be arrested because he was on his was to Congress.

Wasn’t that the Larry Craig seat? Do devils lurk there or what?


31 posted on 12/24/2012 6:42:13 AM PST by Dr. Sivana ("C'est la vie" say the old folks, it goes to show you never can tell. -- Chuck Berry)
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To: SoFloFreeper

How do you fail a field sobriety test at .110? They must have told him to recite the Greek alphabet backward.


32 posted on 12/24/2012 6:42:28 AM PST by Mr Ramsbotham (Laws against sodomy are honored in the breech.)
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To: Ouderkirk
At .110 BAC he’s a piker compared to Chappaquiddick Ted who went through his entire adult life above .300 BAC

He's still burning off the alchohol in hell.

33 posted on 12/24/2012 6:48:35 AM PST by Disambiguator (America chose...poorly.)
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To: SoFloFreeper

.11 is pretty lame - a democRAT could do much better.


34 posted on 12/24/2012 6:48:40 AM PST by NonValueAdded (If you can keep your head when all about you are losing theirs, you've likely misread the situation.)
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To: SoFloFreeper

35 posted on 12/24/2012 6:48:40 AM PST by rlmorel (1793 French Jacobins and 2012 American Liberals have a lot in common.)
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To: rlmorel

GREAT flowchart!!! Merry, Happy to you and yours.


36 posted on 12/24/2012 6:51:18 AM PST by NonValueAdded (If you can keep your head when all about you are losing theirs, you've likely misread the situation.)
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To: Disambiguator

I think the Devil made sure Ted Kennedy got down there because they figured he could extend the thermal energy resources of Hell in four ways:

1.) Hot gas from the mouth

2.) Methane from the rear

3.) Alcohol in the blood

4.) Blubber for rendering


37 posted on 12/24/2012 6:53:21 AM PST by rlmorel (1793 French Jacobins and 2012 American Liberals have a lot in common.)
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To: Mr Ramsbotham
How do you fail a field sobriety test at .110?

They make you take a breath test during the field tests these days. So you can do okay on the physical tests and fail the breath test.

38 posted on 12/24/2012 6:53:54 AM PST by KevinB (A country that would elect Barack Obama president twice is no longer worth fighting for.)
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To: NonValueAdded

Thanks, NonValueAdded...and best to you and yours! (Flowchart is so true, isn’t it?)


39 posted on 12/24/2012 6:54:27 AM PST by rlmorel (1793 French Jacobins and 2012 American Liberals have a lot in common.)
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To: Disambiguator
(Kennedy is) still burning off the alchohol in hell.

Burning it off, hell. Satan's using Ted as a fuel source.

40 posted on 12/24/2012 6:55:48 AM PST by VeniVidiVici (Bathhouse Barry wants YOU to bend over for another four years)
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