Janklow Says He Won't Do Community Service

KSTP Radio ^ | 03/03/04 | staff

[Fizzie]

Janklow says he won't do community service Updated: 03-03-2004 07:52:18 AM

SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (AP) - Former South Dakota governor and congressman Bill Janklow is days away from being able to get out of jail for up to ten hours a day for community service.

But he says he doesn't plan to do it.

Judge Rodney Steele denied Janklow's request to set him free until the state Supreme Court hears his appeal.

As part of a 100-day jail sentence, Steele urged Janklow to speak to students and community groups about the legislative process and other topics he knows about.

According to court services, Janklow has decided not to do community service.

A Moody County jury convicted Janklow of manslaughter, reckless driving, speeding and running a stop sign for an August accident that killed Randy Scott of Hardwick, Minnesota.

[Fizzie]

The judge merely asked Janklow to speak to students and community groups about the legislative process and other topics he knows about. The judge did not ask Janklow to speak about reckless driving, or worse.

Apparently, Janklow likes his jail cell. Must be pretty swank, if he doesn't want to get out of there for up to 10 hours a day. On face value, what a jerk!

[TomServo]

I guess he figures with Mayors across the country breaking the law - why not a former Governor and Congressman?

[martin_fierro]

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With each passing day / dilatory appeal, Janklow reconfirms his a$$hole status.

[lelio]

100 day jail sentence for being a habitual speeder whose luck ran out ending up in an innocent's death.

[rogue yam]

Apparently, Janklow likes his jail cell.

Maybe he's just really, really ashamed of himself and of what he has done and can't stand to appear before all of those innocent young faces?

[Askel5]

Coward.

[Paleo Conservative]

Fizzie 100 day jail sentence for being a habitual speeder whose luck ran out ending up in an innocent's death.

The judge ought to resentence Janklow.

[mombonn]

Lazy, arrogant SOB.

Too bad the sentence was so lenient.

Prayer for the family of the man he killed.

[Dog Gone]

I haven't been to South Dakota recently, but last time I was there I never found a swank place. So that's probably not it.

Frankly, if I were in jail and were offered the chance to leave to give talks (but with no reduction in prison sentence) I'd tell them to take a hike.

Lemme think, be hounded by the media during the day with lots of pictures of me being treated as a prisoner, or reading a paperback novel? Hmmmm.

[PeteFromMontana]

Apparently, Janklow likes his jail cell

Or his cell-MATE. I will refrain from posting a picture...... .......................

You're welcome

[JoeSixPack1]

Any options afforded Janklow is more options than can forever be afforded Randy Scott, excluding the last.

R.I.P. Randy

[archy]

Apparently, Janklow likes his jail cell. Must be pretty swank, if he doesn't want to get out of there for up to 10 hours a day.

He's safer in there. Outside, someone could run him over.

And I doubt if a jury would ever convict them.

[NYC GOP Chick]

What a jackass!

[Fizzie]

Dog Gone,
That might be the self-indulgent route to take, and probably very tempting for Janklow to lay low, and make it all go away in 100 days. Perhaps 100 days in jail with paperbacks is fitting penalty for manslaughter. Apparently it is for Janklow.

[Hodar]

Let's see, a person with a record of placing police sirens and lights on the family station wagon so he doesn't have to follow the rules he, as govenor, signed into laws for everyone else in the state.

Pulled over and ticketed twice (that I know of) for operationg a motorcycle without a licence (both times he claimed not to know that a motorcycle licence was required.).

Issued himself State Park Elk licenses to hunt Elk with his relatives in Custer State Park in 1985 over the Christmas break.

A record of speeding, reckless driving and other moving violations. He kills an innocent while breaking at least 3 moving violations .... and he is sentenced to 100 days?!!!

And the state wonders why people like myself, who grew up in South Dakota, went to SDSU; then moved out of state and have no intention of ever returning. South Dakota used to be a respectable place to live. Now, with people like Janklow and Daschel as representatives, there's nothing there that I want.

[Fizzie]

Wow... I didn't know 1/2 that stuff about Janklow. Now I'm REALLY "troubled" (as Daschle would say)

[Lancey Howard]

Maybe he's just really, really ashamed of himself and of what he has done and can't stand to appear before all of those innocent young faces?

That's what I'm thinking. The guy is probably so ashamed of himself and depressed with what he has to live with for the rest of his life that he just wants to do his time and then drop off the face of the earth.

Or maybe the motorcyclist has relatives who want to even the score, and Janklow has decided it's safer in jail.

[FreeReign]

Frankly, if I were in jail and were offered the chance to leave to give talks (but with no reduction in prison sentence) I'd tell them to take a hike.

Frankly speaking, and quite frankly I am being frank about this... if I had the chance to redeem myself after commiting manslaughter, by speaking with students, I would jump at that opportunity.

Lemme think, be hounded by the media during the day with lots of pictures of me being treated as a prisoner, or reading a paperback novel?

What about lots of pictures of a guy who is sorry he killed an innocent person and getting the lucky-stars chance to show such sorrow?

[Dog Gone]

Of course it's self-indulgent. This lowlife has always considered himself above all traffic laws. And 100 days is an incredibly light sentence for what he did, given his past history.

My observation is only that there's nothing in it for him, although he might have changed his tune if he knew this particular story would get national attention. He's already disgraced. He lost his job in Congress. He has absolutely nothing to look forward to for the rest of his life.

He really took a plummet from his high cliff of political success to inmate in some crappy jail. If he isn't clinically depressed, it would be a miracle. What's in it for him to get out of jail for a few hours and make a spectacle of himself? He could do these talks AFTER he's released with little fanfare if he wanted to rehabilitate his image.

If he had been sentenced to jail and to give these talks, that would be a completely different matter, but if he wants to fulfill his sentence behind bars 24 hours a day, I'm not going to second guess his decision.