Posted on 05/30/2015 10:25:19 PM PDT by 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.
(Excerpt) Read more at sanfrancisco.cbslocal.com ...
So they found a solution to continued drinking. See they can get things done!
Will they teach them how to drunk dial while they are at it?
One martini
Two martini
Three martini
Floor!
In colonial times, your horsie knew the way home. And soon your (automated drives-itself Google) car will, too. But government will probably program it to drive you to jail instead.
The 11am sip was universally accepted.
Dorothy Parker
I like that one too!
Id like to work the “name”UBER...into this somehow..
STUPOR cabs, they’ll give you a Lyft!
The whole Uber thing has me puzzled. Not the “competing” taxi service aspect. Lyft was doing the same thing.
Uber has become the name brand go to company with talk hosts like Michael Medved and Kim Commando encouraging their listeners to get jobs driving for Uber.
Would they also encourage their listeners to get jobs modeling from Craigslist?
Not the safest of professions.
The Wilbur Mills/Ted Kennedy ExPress
1-800-WHOOOYA!!
The main function of the government class in CA is to concoct schemes to loot what’s left of middle America.
They’ve just about looted the elderly as they try to keep them alive....For damn good reason.
Just wait about 5 more years, when most all those in their late 70s, 80s and 90s are all but gone. That generation had most of the assets, insurance, credit, investment plans, real-estate and on and on.
When they’re gone you’ll see doctors, the entire medical industry, big pharma, big auto, finance industry etc., totally implode.
It’s coming fast as these folks are dying off on a daily basis. In 5 years most will be long gone. Get ready.
Sure they can...
Have a friend who got arrested for DUI. Blew a 0.34. The deputy wrote in the arrest report: “ the suspect registered 0.34% BAC but did not appear intoxicated”.
That’s not recreational....that’s a career. Needless to say, they made him go to AA meetings as part of his plea deal.
Are you kidding? You’ve GOTTA be drunk to pass the kind of idiotic legislation that they pass now.
Years ago two guys from Columbia covered my tech rep territory while I was out on vacation. One was a young guy who didn’t drink much if at all, the other was a full blown lush around fifty years old. They were in seperate cars with CB radios, the young guy swore to me that the other guy bought a pint of vodka at Myrtle Beach, SC just before they got into their cars to come home at the end of one day and got on the CB twice, once at Conway and once at Sumter, to tell him to pull over at a liquor store where he bought another pint each time and by the time they got back to Columbia he had consumed all three pints. I can’t back up the story but I do know the guy was a hell of a drinker and I don’t know any reason why the younger fellow would have lied about it. I thought maybe they were actually HALF pints and he just thought they were pints but even then it would be a pint and a half of eighty proof vodka in about two hours on the road. That is equal to almost ten ounces of PURE alcohol. If the boy had it right it was a little over nineteen ounces of pure one hundred percent alcohol. I do know from working with the guy myself that the first thing he did every single day at the end of the workday was head for the nearest liquor store. I never knew him to even consider the possibility of taking a sober breath after dark.
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