Posted on 02/24/2004 10:12:54 AM PST by mafree
Madison - State Attorney General Peg Lautenschlager said today that she was arrested for drunken driving in Dodge County while returning to her Fond du Lac home from the Capitol on Monday.
Lautenschlager, 48, said in a statement that she had made a "terrible mistake" and added: "While driving home, I fell asleep and drove off the road, and was subsequently cited for operating a vehicle while intoxicated."
In her statement, she promised to "accept the consequences of and will take responsibility for my actions."
According to the Dodge County sheriff's report on the arrest, Lautenschlager refused to take a test to determine her blood-alcohol level.
She was driving a state-owned car when she was arrested.
Lautenschlager, whose office works closely with local and state police agencies and operates state crime labs, thanked Dodge County officers in her statement "for their professionalism in handling this matter."
She has been released from custody.
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.
An aide said Lautenschlager was not available for comment today.
Lautenschlager commutes to the Capitol from her Fond du Lac home and usually drives alone to state appearances. As a former federal prosecutor, whose spouse is a retired law enforcement officer, Lautenschlager has received considerable political backing from law officers.
More details of her arrest were not immediately available.
Complete coverage of this story will appear online later today and in the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel in the morning.
"I predict she will resign."
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I predict she will give a hand-wringing apology...And that will be the end of it.
Here in Okla. we've recently had the Leader of the State Senate...Cal Hobson...legislating drunk on the Senate floor...and the State Insurance Commissioner...Carrol Fisher...driving a state car while drunk...Both these guys apologized and have been "forgiven".
My guess is that if they both had had "R's" behind their names...the media would have demanded their "pound of flesh". And nothing short of resignation would have shut them up.
FWIW--
""Madison - State Attorney General Peg Lautenschlager, a Republican who enjoyed support from Wisconsin's law enforcement community during the election due to her husband's standing as a retired high ranking law enforcement official, said today that she was arrested for drunken driving in Dodge County while returning to her Fond du Lac home from the Capitol on Monday. Lautenschlager ran on a strict platform of toughening Wisconsin's existing drunk driving laws.""
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Nice work...but you forgot the following:........................a retired high ranking law enforcement official, said today that she was arrested for drunken driving in Dodge County while returning to her exclusive up-scale lake-side gated, Fond du Lac home from the Capitol on Monday
Can anyone aks someone at the state to interview the establishment/s and take a look-see at the tab?
The bitch in the ditch may have just ran into a glitch!
I heard it was at "The Public House", but that report was on a local TV channel...I can't see her stopping in at The Pub either. (I was always a Plaza person myself, it's the burger...and the Guinness Extra Stout, certainly not the atmosphere...post upstairs bowling alley closure of course)
Well thank you Osage Orange, that's a hellova nice thing to say.
Great way to make your acquaintance, too.
...but you forgot the following:"
Ohhhhh?
Well let's see.
"...a retired high ranking law enforcement official, said today that she was arrested for drunken driving in Dodge County while returning to her exclusive up-scale lake-side gated, Fond du Lac home from the Capitol on Monday."
HA!!
Yea, I see what you mean.
I did omit spin errrr *facts* critical to smearing the imaginary Republican AG that a "real" Liberal-Socialist quisling sycophant urinalist would never have missed, didn't I.
All I can say in my defense, is that I was trying to emulate a lapdog Liberal-Socialist quisling sycophant urinalist.
And to my credit?
...I failed. {g}
People of power don't do anything alone or without their "Yes" squad in tow. Who else was with her while imbibing alchohol (and at the taxpayer's expense)?
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Records show that Lautenschlager paid four traffic fines between 1995 and 2000. In a 2000 incident, she was originally cited for speeding in Racine County, but it was amended to speedometer violations, for which she paid a $150 forfeiture. That came five months after she paid $199 for a Dodge County speeding violation. She also paid forfeitures for speeding in 1995 and 1998.
Lautenschlager isn't the first Wisconsin attorney general to be arrested for drunken driving. In 1981, then-Attorney General Bronson C. La Follette was convicted of drunken driving in Waukesha County and fined $231.
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Don't recall any of this coming out during the campaign. Methinks an AG candidate ought to be cleaner than the rest of us. Heck, I've only had one speeding ticket in my life so maybe I should be AG before her.
"And to my credit?
...I failed. {g} "
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I thought your post was spot-on. Just thought I'd throw some sort of typical lib-bias condiment on it....
It's sometimes hard to think like a MarxistSocialistDemoLib.... when your keel is true. I was just trying to help....in my own small way......(g)
Best FRegards,
True-true.
But I found it a lot easier to think like a Liberal-Socialist if ya administer to yourself a partial lobotomy, to which an ice pick works quite nicey.
Of course if one wanted to think like a Liberal-Socialist quisling sycophant *urinalist*?
Well that's an entirely different story and one that'd require a complete lobotomy.
But that's as bad as it gets since ya can use the same ice pick for either procedure.
"I was just trying to help...in my own small way...(g)"
Yes you were, & duely noted too.
"One small contribution, one vast leap..." & all that, eh?
"Best FRegards,"
...& back at'cha, Osage. ;^)
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