Posted on 05/06/2006 7:25:10 AM PDT by pjsbro
U.S. Rep. Patrick J. Kennedy was with a woman at his Capitol Hill home Wednesday night before he smashed his Mustang convertible into a barricade near a House office building, according to a published report.
“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.
Kennedy, 38, spoke to the paper before heading to Minnesota for addiction treatment at the prestigious Mayo Clinic.
In his latest account of what happened early Thursday, the son of U.S. Sen. Edward M. Kennedy said he took the stomach medication Phenergan earlier in the night during a House session. But he said he does not recall taking the sleep aid Ambien - even though he assumes he must have.
Kennedy has said since Thursday night that a cocktail of the prescriptions put him into a stupor he can’t recall.
It was “scary,” he said.
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.”
Kennedy Crashes Car Near Capitol
Rep. Patrick Kennedy (D-R.I.) crashed his car near the U.S. Capitol, and a police official said he appeared intoxicated. Kennedy said he was rushing to cast what he hoped would be a decisive vote on a matter of great importance.
Kennedy issued a statement after a volley of news reports stirred interest in the crash. "It is alleged that I was involved in a traffic accident at First and C Street SE near the U.S. Capitol," Kennedy said in his statement. "It has not been conclusively determined whether I was in the vehicle much
less driving it. There is no evidence that I consumed alcohol prior to the incident. I'm working with my lawyers to find the truth."
Kennedy's father, Senator Ted Kennedy (D-Mass.) asserted that his son was the target of a rightwing witch hunt. "The same administration that is torturing prisoners of war has set its sights on my son," Kennedy complained. "When
police brought him home he had panties on his head and a dog collar around his neck. This is the Bush MO. I am more determined than ever to see this bastard impeached."
A letter written by a Capitol Police officer Greg Baird to Acting Chief Christopher McGaffin said Kennedy appeared to be staggering when he left the vehicle after the 3 a.m. crash. "Representative Kennedy said he was late for a vote," Baird said. "He kept saying he had to vote for Katharine. But the Capitol was dark and no meetings were in session."
Speculation is that it was Katharine McPhee that the young Kennedy was mumbling about. Ms. McPhee is a contestant on the "American Idol" television show.
Kennedy spent time at a drug rehabilitation clinic before he went to Providence College. He has been open about his mental health issues, including the revelation that he has been diagnosed with "moonbat" disorder.
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http://www.azconservative.org/Semmens1.htm
Just found a remarkable interview with Patrick "Can't Remember S***" Kennedy here:
http://www.insidepolitics.org/heard/Kennedy111200.html
"Congressman Patrick Kennedy appeared on "10 News Conference" on November 12, 2000 to discuss Election 2000, media coverage, and his yacht incident. The following is a transcript of that interview."
The first paragraphs deal with Bush v. Gore, then it gets personal:
-snip-
Jim Taricani: Congressman Kennedy is our guest today on 10 news channel. I have to ask you a question and I want you to be very honest now. Who was on the yacht? By name? Did you do any damage to the yacht and are you going to compensate?
Patrick Kennedy: First of all that's none of your business.
Jim Taricani: Why isn't it?
This is the incident where he owed money to a yacht rental company. There was another incident in which the Coast Guard was called about his altercation with a young woman on board his yacht.
Oh, my......will there be an angry husband in the next act of this French farce?
Leni
Right into the cider barrel.
I found another stunning example of slap-in-the-face gall in #125, as well.
These people are unreal.
The 'foggy bottom of Patch's mind'? Somebody from State? :-)
Kennedy may be off the hook criminally, but politically it's a whole different story. Now he and his spinmeisters will try to do everything possible to keep the story from going further negative, if that is possible.
He paid cash
LOL!!! Man, where did THAT come from?!?!?
Aaaah, if only this woman had done a better job of saving Patrick, then he wouldn't have to go to the bother of press conferences and rehab. And car repair. Why oh why didn't she try harder. (with sarcasm and eyerolling)
Haha. Is he passive aggressive now? Someone else should have stopped him. I don't wish him any ill, I'm certainly pleased he didn't kill anyone or himself but he's got more work to do than just rehab. Sounds like he and his peeps are keeping him in a sheltered world where nothing is ever his fault.
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