[Chummy]

Still waiting to hear how AG Lautenschlager will be dealt with regarding her apparent violation of Wisconsin Department of Administration policies on driving a state-owned (taxpayer paid, that is) vehicle while in a drunken condition.

[Prince Charles]

Lautenschlager, the state's top law enforcement official, read a statement to reporters and television cameras in the Department of Justice building near the Capitol.

Did she take a snort of bourbon right before, to calm her nerves?

[Sloth]

I assume she's a Dem, since the article states no party?

[Wally_Kalbacken]

She should resign. 

But then again - the State Bar of Wisconsin has some of the most lenient standards in the country. They mildly punish significant violations of professional ethics and state law. So if that is the standard for lawyers in the state - this will be like water off a duck's back. If this had been a Republican, the GOP would have called for his resignation. The fact that it is a Democrat (and that explains a lot about why it is a woman with a rather undistinguished career outside of positions obtained by political appointment) means she will not step down.

[Glenn]

Dang. That's a mouthful of name she has there.

Reminds me of a night in Vegas with Goldschlager pouring like tap water. It's not spelled that way but phonics allows for the derivation.

[EGPWS]

Thursday for her drunken driving arrest, pledging to learn from her mistake.

I'm sure her pledge will be sufficient to preserve her position in the state, as it would be sufficient for you or I in such a scenario.

[mountaineer]

she drove her state-owned car into a ditch.

I trust she also will pay for any necessary repairs to the vehicle.

[joesnuffy]

I dont think Pegs law practice ever went much farther than that chinsey basement closet she was quarted in...in Oshkosh Wi back in the early 80s...

I believe that after she got rid of hubbie number 1 and became the darling of the leftie femanazi Dems that she has made her living holding political offices..never could figure out
how she had enough experience to have "merited" a federal prosecutors job...but then she is of the Janet Reno era...and a Clintonista ..imo

She "Refused" the blood test....interesting how the Attorney General of Wisconsin..."MZZ Strickness" on Drunk Driving...refuses the blood test...not too worry.. the Dem Gov and Lt Gov
and all of Wisc Law Enforcement bureaucrats will protect their commisar....

She should be forced out...driving a State owned vehicle...and refusing the blood test...kinda makes one wonder what was in the blood that she felt compelled to have to detox out before she dared take that test...or what was under the car seat...

Peg...you need to resign....its the honorable thing to do...given your stand on drunk driving..

Law Enforcement should be backing max penalties for one of their own betraying their office...
especially with her REFUSAL to take the blood test...

They should have tied her down and taken it like they would have done from any other peon who crashed a state car while drunk....

Then issuing a phony statement saying she "fell asleep"....when the fact is she "passed out"
She is a danger to herself and others

Shame Shame Shame....
imo

[martin_fierro]

*Hic* Semper Tyrannis.

[Honcho Bongs]

What about all the questions the press REFUSES to ask...

Like is she going into a rehab program for her drug and alcohol abuse? She told the deputy she was on Flexiril, then the papers said asthma medicine. Now they say nothing.

She should resign. What a disgrace.

I'm sure she'll end up being chauffered around at taxpayers expense for the time her license is pulled.

[PonyTailGuy]

I love how they all go out of their way to call it a "mistake."

No, a mistake is dialing the wrong phone number. Knowingly driving a car while drunk is a character defect.

This democrat, like so many others, is unfit to lead.

[af_vet_1981]

Lautenschlager said she instructed her attorney Wednesday to enter a guilty plea on her behalf. She said she would pay the $784 fine and not contest the revocation of her license.

I commend her on this decision which was more noble than the Congressman who ran the stop sign and killed a motorcyclist. He was a Republican. Or the Senator who drove off a bridge and killed a woman named Mary Jo Kopechne. He was a Democrat.

Now she should resign.

[Theodore R.]

I wonder if the WI atty. gen. would accept a similar apology from the U.S. atty gen. in a similar situation.

[Dr Snide]

I heard the pathetic "feel sorry for me" news confrence today. She also said she was going to ask for the same punishment from the state that any other state employee would recieve for getting tanked and running their state supplied car fof the road. As a state employee with a state assigned car myself I know the answer to this, YOU GET FIRED. It is made perfectly clear this is the policy. Apparently she didn't or couldn't read the vehicle use agreement (maybe she was too drunk at the time)which states this pretty clearly. Somehow I suspect she will be held to a different standard then I would.

[unspun]

"Pleads" is right. What a ploy for pathos. What a victim of circumstances.