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Patrick Kennedy: I Wasn’t Drinking
May 4, 2006 / 6:25 PM / CBS/AP
It wasn’t alcohol, said Rep. Patrick Kennedy, in the first of two statements issued to explain an accident in which he crashed his car into a security barricade near the U.S. Capitol.
“I consumed no alcohol prior to the incident,” said Kennedy, commenting on reports that he appeared to be staggering when he emerged from his green Mustang convertible at about 2:45 a.m. Thursday – insisting that he was late for a vote in the House.
So he was on some heavy drugs, then.