"Fat, drunk, and stupid is no way to go through life, Congressman."
[R.I.P John Vernon]
Posted on 05/04/2006 2:12:34 PM PDT by Leisler
9 News has learned U.S. Capitol police officers are concerned about the handling of an accident involving Congressman Patrick Kennedy (D-Rhode Island) about 3 a.m. this morning.
Rep. Kennedy was reportedly behind the wheel of a green Ford Mustang when it crashed into a security barrier at 1st and "C" streets Southeast.
There are no reports of injuries. A Boston TV station is reporting Kennedy told officers he was late for a vote. We are told police drove him home after conferring with higher-ups in the department. So far, Kennedy HAS NOT been charged. A spokesman for his office told CNN that alcohol was NOT involved.
The head of the Fraternal Order of Police Lodge 1, Lou Cannon, told 9 News that he’s concerned that Kennedy may have received special treatment and this could be a case where “rank has its privilege.”
Cannon also told 9 News that officers noticed the car swerving, looking as if it was going to make a U-turn.
9 News reporter Stacey Cohan spoke to Kennedy's press secretary at his congressional office in Rhode Island, who said she is looking into the situation, but does not have any information right now.
Congressman Patrick Kennedy is Ted Kennedy's son. He is currently serving his sixth term as the Democratic Congressman from Rhode Island. He sits on the powerful House Appropriations Committee.
WOW! That is the worst drunken chicken scratch I have ever seen!
Gotta keep up the "Family Tradition"!
when has a kennedy ever admitting being drunk????
He had to be drunk or high when he wrote that. Illiterate would work too!
"...he was going to a vote at 3 in the morning, and the police are ordered not to test him. Then he is whisked away."
I'm sure they took him straight to the capital, so he wouldn't miss his vote. ;)
BTTT
Tweaker.
"Fat, drunk, and stupid is no way to go through life, Congressman."
[R.I.P John Vernon]
The police need to be charged and somebody fired.
It is no accident Patches used this particular excuse. It is not lawful for any local law enforcement officer to detain a member of Congress while he is on his way to carry out his duties at the Capitol. You can bet your bottom dollar that Patches' lawyers told him to always use this explanation when stopped by the Police. He was just parroting it back, except he failed to realize it made no sense at 3:00 AM.
That's because he had no idea it was 3:00 a.m........
And the Klintoons....and this little Peter Paul thinks he's going to get somewhere with them.
He ment to say he had been tossed out of the club and was on his way to sleep of the drinks he did not have before driving without lights into a marked barrier at 2.45AM
The barrier he apparently hit blocks the street that leads to the garages under the House office buildings where members park. Kennedy must have been trying to get back there and had no idea how late it was and forgot that the barriers go up after hours. I'll bet he turned the corner at a fairly high rate of speed and just ran into the barrier. He must have been pretty wigged out to not have known how late it was or forgotten about the barriers.
ping
"What vote happens in the middle of the night?"
The vote on which bar to go to next.
What was he voting on ..a pay raise for himself or a tax increase for everyone else or both?
Isn't this the same Kennedy that assaulted a security guard at an airport check point?
At 3 am, of course he was late for a vote! When was the last time the House stayed in session that late?
When interviewed by police, did Kennedy utter his famous line,
"Do you know who I am?" like he did the time he pushed a security guard at Raleigh-Durham Airport?
"But I wasn't drunk(hiccup, hiccup) honest. I'm a Congressman and we always tell the truth. Besides, I'm late for a vote. Oh, it's 3a.m. is it. Well, my daddy said if I ever get caught driving drunk, just tell the police you're late for a vote. Works every time"...
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