[mewzilla]

Did you see this in today's Herald...

Mystery woman tried to stop him, report says

[at bay]

Capitol police officers stopped Kennedy after he hit the barricade and drove him home without administering field sobriety tests.

The next step for Kennedy, he said, is, “I’ve got to do total abstinence, period. From now on, obviously, I’m a very public face with addiction and alcoholism written on my head.”

Where the rest of us would have it written in a criminal record.

[maggief]

"Dissuade?" Sounds like another fight and Patches took off for the bar.

“She tried to dissuade me” from leaving the house, he told The Providence Journal. “And she wishes she had done a better job dissuading me.”

The unmarried lawmaker declined to give the woman’s name and says he only knows she tried to stop him because she has since told him so.

He's now acknowledging alcholism ...

“I’ve got to do total abstinence, period. From now on, obviously, I’m a very public face with addiction and alcoholism written on my head.”