McGavick misstated details of DUI arrest (WA Senate race update)

The Seattle Post-Intelligencer ^ | September 2, 2006 | Neil Modie

[Clintonfatigued]

U.S. Senate candidate Mike McGavick ran a red light, reeked of alcohol, failed a roadside sobriety test and fell asleep during police processing on a 1993 drunken-driving charge, according to a Maryland police report.

The report was obtained Friday from the Montgomery County, Md., Police Department. It suggests that McGavick, a Republican running against Democratic Sen. Maria Cantwell this fall, was less candid than he seemed when he disclosed the previously unknown arrest on his campaign Web site Aug. 24.

[Clintonfatigued]

Why didn't anybody know this before he became a candidate? It seems that the GOP does a poor job of vetting candidates for public office.

[TitansAFC]

Sadly, this will be the story in Seattle until the election.

McGavick already had a uphill climb. Now the press will see to it he is recognized for one thing on Election Day: a DUI.

[MikeA]

Honestly, we just can't catch a break this year. But then I guess this tells you the level at which the Dem's opposition research is operating and the degree to which the media refuses to report anything negative about any Democratic candidate that it seems Republican Senate and House candidates are catching so much flack.

[ThreePuttinDude]

I wonder if he were to find out that he was a distant cousin
to the Kennedy's, if it might not work in his favor....

[Clintonfatigued]

True. However, McGavick should have expected this to come up before he decided to be a candidate. The GOP needs to improve its candidate-vetting process.

It looks to me that Diane Telebius would have been a better candidate.

[goldstategop]

It happened 13 years ago. Of course if he was Ted Kennedy, he'd be forgiven already. At least he didn't drown a poor girl.

(No more Olmert! No more Kadima! No more Oslo! )

[SoldierDad]

If you're not a Kennedy, You can't get away with driving drunk and not taking a breathalizer test. You also won't get a ride home from the cops that respond. Oh, and if this happened in 1993, why is it news now?

[finnman69]

well that race is over

[Clintonfatigued]

It is not too late for McGavick to quit and a replacement to be found?

[Torie]

This is simply awful. This seat is a done deal. The Pubbie dumbly trimmed as to his "confession." Total candor is king; McGavick did simply did not get that memo, or if he did, did not read it. Stick a fork in him.

[sionnsar]

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[sionnsar]

Gee, if it was okay for Bobbe Bridge to remain on the bench, what's the problem here?

[Clintonfatigued]

This is lousy news, that's for sure.

[Bean Counter]

Much ado about nothing. What do you expect the Seattle media to focus on??!! It's only an issue if you allow the frickin' media to make it one!

What is with you people up there in the proximity of the Puget Sound?? We are talking about events that took place in 1993. If Washington Republicans allow Mike McGavick to be shot down in flames by the Seattle Media over something like this, they they frickin' deserve Maria Cantwell, and the complaining about her up there ought to stop!

[Clintonfatigued]

Bobbe Bridge isn't voting on public policy.

[Torie]

The GOP candidate trimmed when describing what happened. In fact, his characterization was factually inaccurate. His errant characerization of the facts, happened not in 1993, but last week, revealing a lack of candor, or, to be generous, his Panglossian veneer with which he chose to affix over the rather uglier truth. He's done. It's over.

[fhayek]

Drunk driving for Republicans - scandalous! Drunk driving for Patches Kennedy - ho hum.

[sionnsar]

Should have added a < / sarc tag.

[ErnBatavia]

It seems that the GOP does a poor job of vetting candidates for public office.

Is a pig's ass pork?