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Janklow's Record Is Clean After Probation
StarTribune ^ | 1/22/07 | Carson Walker

Posted on 01/22/2007 2:30:29 PM PST by ButThreeLeftsDo

Former Rep. Bill Janklow will emerge from his manslaughter probation today with a clean record, more than three years after he sped through a stop sign in a Cadillac and killed a Minnesota motorcyclist. Janklow already regained his law license and can get behind the wheel again, having obeyed all conditions of his release, his probation officer said.

But the 67-year-old's political career is through.

"I think that it's good for everyone involved that this chapter has come to a conclusion," said Ed Evans, the attorney who represented him at trial.

On Aug. 16, 2003, Janklow's car struck a Harley-Davidson ridden by Randy Scott, 55, of Hardwick, Minn., at an intersection near Trent, S.D., about 30 miles north of Sioux Falls.

Scott was killed instantly. Janklow suffered minor injuries.

Janklow, who has diabetes, testified he had not eaten the day of the accident and likely blacked out when he approached the intersection.

Janklow told The Associated Press he did not want to comment about the end of his probation.

(Excerpt) Read more at startribune.com ...


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Government; US: Minnesota; US: South Dakota
KEYWORDS: janklow
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I don't agree with him getting his record cleared.
1 posted on 01/22/2007 2:30:30 PM PST by ButThreeLeftsDo
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To: ButThreeLeftsDo

Kill somebody? Off your record in 3 years.

Skip a month on your Visa? On your record for 10 years.


2 posted on 01/22/2007 2:32:18 PM PST by L98Fiero (A fool who'll waste his life, God rest his guts.)
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To: ButThreeLeftsDo

lawyers protecting lawyers.


3 posted on 01/22/2007 2:41:31 PM PST by Rakkasan1 ((Illegal immigrants are just undocumented friends you haven't met yet!))
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To: ButThreeLeftsDo

Step Down, Bill Janklow
By Michelle Malkin

It’s all a big joke to Rep. Bill Janklow, the Republican congressman from South Dakota with a lead foot, a hollow heart, and an ego the size of his Cadillac death-mobile.

Conservatives with a conscience should be appalled that the powerful GOP representative, charged over the weekend with felony manslaughter in a fatal accident that killed a motorcyclist last month, refuses to step down immediately from office.

For years, this man who belongs to the party of personal responsibility—the party of law and order—has made light of his law-skirting ways. A notorious speeder, he jested in his State of the State address while governor of South Dakota in 1996: "For the first time since I can remember, I went a whole year without a speeding ticket, and so then the federal government goes ahead and abolishes speed limits." In his 1999 State of the State address, the governor (and former state attorney general) poked fun at his scofflaw reputation again: 'Bill Janklow speeds when he drives. Shouldn't, but he does.'"

Hardy-har-har. According to the Associated Press:

“His driving record shows numerous citations from the early 1990s, when he was ticketed 12 times for speeding and paid more than $1,000 in fines. In several cases, he was stopped for driving 15 to 20 miles per hour faster than the posted speed limits and once was caught going 90 mph in a 65-mph zone.”

He has reportedly been involved in at least eight accidents over the past 10 years.

Last December, according to Jennifer Walters of Trent, S.D., Janklow ran a stop sign and nearly collided with her family’s pickup truck at a rural intersection. "A split-second difference and the Cadillac would have hit us," Walters (who was riding with her husband and two children) told the Minneapolis Star Tribune last week. "That's how fast the car came through." [registration required]

Eight months later, Janklow ran the same stop sign at the very same intersection—and Randolph Scott was not so lucky.

Scott was riding his Harley-Davidson safely at a legal speed on Aug. 16. The 55-year-old Vietnam veteran, volunteer firefighter, farmer, and father of two didn’t have a chance as Janklow came barreling through the intersection at a reported 70 miles an hour. Scott was killed instantly. Friends remembered him as a big, outgoing guy who knew everyone in his small town of Hardwick, Minnesota. He headed the local American Legion post. “He was always there for you,” a former schoolmate recalled. He “liked hamburger steaks,” another friend said.

The imperial Janklow has expressed remorse for the death of citizen Randolph Scott. Remorse, but not shame. Janklow’s son told the New York Times on Sunday that his father “plans to go back to Washington and resume his Congressional duties…He has no intention of resigning."

Janklow, considered a potential candidate against Democrat minority leader Sen. Tom Daschle, is clinging pathetically to his political ambitions. Meanwhile, Republican strategists are worried about losing South Dakota’s only congressional seat to a Democrat.

Politics be damned. Janklow is a repugnant lawbreaker addicted to speed and power. His callous disregard for the rules cost an innocent man his life. The Republican Party should turn its back on Janklow and bear the electoral consequences.

Last year’s Trent Lott episode showed that the GOP can hold its leaders to higher standards. Party officials once again have an opportunity to show that personal accountability is more than a catch phrase.

The Democrats have their Chappaquiddick. Republicans don’t need one, too.


4 posted on 01/22/2007 2:50:50 PM PST by ansel12 (America, love it ,or at least give up your home citizenship before accepting ours too.)
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5 posted on 01/22/2007 2:53:44 PM PST by martin_fierro (< |:)~)
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To: martin_fierro

Randolph Scott? Oh, no, my childhood hero!


6 posted on 01/22/2007 3:03:45 PM PST by Continental Soldier
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To: ButThreeLeftsDo

What a filthy, rotten, degenerate POS. If any of us "little people" had done this we'd be rotting in jail and sued out of every possession we own.


7 posted on 01/22/2007 3:08:51 PM PST by lesser_satan (EKTHELTHIOR!!!)
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To: martin_fierro
It's been so cold and icy here for the past month, that I haven't been able to ride even once.

The withdrawl symptoms are killing me.

8 posted on 01/22/2007 3:18:34 PM PST by demsux
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To: lesser_satan
Yep... this guy graduated from the School taught by the Queen of Mean (Leona Helmsley)... apparently only the little people get permanently thrown onto the garbage pile for life.

This guy had a history of speeding and thought no one else owned a small sliver of the road they drive upon. I bet this Janklow character was the king of aggressive drivers and would cut people off because they only did 5 mph over the speed limit. If he got caught by state troopers/police for aggressive driving/speeding, he probabably whipped out his member of congress credentials and used the "don't you konw who I am" (wasn't a interrogative statement... but a declarative statement I'm sure) defense.

9 posted on 01/22/2007 3:19:48 PM PST by Trajan88 (www.bullittclub.com)
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To: demsux

Went for a nice little putt last Saturday out here -- am even hearing some spring birds already!

Spring'll be here before you know it.


10 posted on 01/22/2007 3:20:58 PM PST by martin_fierro (< |:)~)
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To: ButThreeLeftsDo
The man is a POS.

Period.

11 posted on 01/22/2007 3:39:35 PM PST by OldSmaj (Death to islam. I am now and will always be, a sworn enemy of all things muslim.)
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To: Trajan88

Here in South Carolina, we have a Lt. Gov. who has the same speed demon attitude as Janklow. Andre Bauer.
Last summer he was being pursued for exceeding 100mph. He called in to the Highway patrol HQ and told them to tell the trooper that he was pursuing "SC-2". He didn't get a ticket.
I ride a motorcycle...and I'm nervous.


12 posted on 01/22/2007 5:58:14 PM PST by gruntSGT (Card carrying foaming at the mouth Lindsay Graham hater.)
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To: ButThreeLeftsDo; Clintonfatigued; JohnnyZ; AuH2ORepublican; Kuksool; AntiGuv; Torie

Absolutely disgraceful.


13 posted on 01/22/2007 6:54:04 PM PST by fieldmarshaldj (Cheney X -- Destroying the Liberal Democrat Traitors By Any Means Necessary -- Ya Dig ? Sho 'Nuff.)
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To: ansel12

"“His driving record shows numerous citations from the early 1990s, when he was ticketed 12 times for speeding and paid more than $1,000 in fines. In several cases, he was stopped for driving 15 to 20 miles per hour faster than the posted speed limits and once was caught going 90 mph in a 65-mph zone.”

He has reportedly been involved in at least eight accidents over the past 10 years.

Last December, according to Jennifer Walters of Trent, S.D., Janklow ran a stop sign and nearly collided with her family’s pickup truck at a rural intersection. "A split-second difference and the Cadillac would have hit us," Walters (who was riding with her husband and two children) told the Minneapolis Star Tribune last week. "That's how fast the car came through." [registration required]

Eight months later, Janklow ran the same stop sign at the very same intersection—and Randolph Scott was not so lucky. "

The man doesn't deserve to ever hold a drivers license again.


14 posted on 01/22/2007 7:01:14 PM PST by SmoothTalker
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To: ansel12
"He has reportedly been involved in at least eight accidents over the past 10 years."

THat's the problem there. His reckless driving, not the rest of it. He should have had his license pulled a long time ago with the crashes. That should be proof his driving attitude and ability was reckless.

It's a shame he got his record cleared of this felony also.

15 posted on 01/22/2007 7:02:19 PM PST by spunkets
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To: martin_fierro; demsux

Was riding until Christmas. Cold, but no ice.


16 posted on 01/22/2007 7:06:10 PM PST by spunkets
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To: fieldmarshaldj

While his legal record may be clean, his dirty deed is common knowlege. His record is stained forever.


17 posted on 01/22/2007 7:42:06 PM PST by Clintonfatigued ("Appointing Earl Warren was the biggest damn fool thing I ever did." Dwight D. Eisenhower)
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To: ButThreeLeftsDo

Got me a jury summons for next week, and will flatly refuse to serve. Got no faith in the world's best judicial system.


18 posted on 01/22/2007 7:47:59 PM PST by Revolting cat! (We all need someone we can bleed on...)
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To: Revolting cat!

Can you legally do that??


19 posted on 01/22/2007 8:01:10 PM PST by ButThreeLeftsDo (Carry Daily. Apply Sparingly.)
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To: ButThreeLeftsDo

No, of course not, but you have to weasel your way out. (Although at one time, I made so much stink they did reject me. Nowadays, methods are a little more subtle.)


20 posted on 01/22/2007 8:02:43 PM PST by Revolting cat! (We all need someone we can bleed on...)
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