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.”
Let me rephrase that. Both of these stories can't be true.
Have you seen a picture of the mystery woman?
If you must know........ the woman was his housekeeper....... and yes she was legal. *Chuckle*
Story # 21
Oh Peach, bless your heart.
I obviously need more caffeine after 4 hours sleep.
Isn't that the idea from the first round of rehab?
Not if you're a Kennedy....it's round after round after round.
Don't you remember he has ADD also?
Peach is a very careful poster. Too bad we aren't all as good as she is.
Libstripper has a better way of putting it 
So I see. :)
LOL!
LOL!!!!
LOL! Guess there's some truth to the stories that he's dumber than a post!
I guess that's why we must feel compaaaaaaaaaasionate for his predicament.
/not!
Mystery woman?
:-)
Last night I needed an ambien. Where are the good drugs when you need them?
Also notice how they blend this part of the crime into one piece? It gives the impression that the same cops that stopped him gave him a ride home without testing him, implying total innocence with no special privileges.
I LOATHE the media as well.
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