Posted on 08/29/2009 8:33:59 AM PDT by Born Conservative
The chairman of the city Democratic Party was charged with public drunkenness after allegedly intervening in a police investigation of an assault at the Parker House bar late Wednesday.
"Do you recognize the name? Do you know who I am?" the party chairman, Art Moran, asked Patrolman Robert Hegedus, according to an affidavit filed by the officer.
Officer Hegedus, who reported smelling alcohol on Mr. Moran's breath, didn't recognize him and asked, "Should I?"
"Remember my name," Mr. Moran replied, the officer reported.
Mr. Moran, 47, a former Scranton school director, denied in an interview Friday he tried to intimidate the officer, claimed he reacted out of fear related to his political rivalry with Mayor Chris Doherty, and said he plans to challenge the citation.
"It's not a power play," Mr. Moran said of his conversation with the officer.
Mr. Doherty said Friday he wasn't briefed on the incident. "I never comment on a police matter," he said.
The affidavit states Mr. Moran had tried to explain the behavior of Shannon M. Burns, 31, of Scranton, whom police arrested and charged with punching Kimberly Bednash in the face that night in the bar, and kicking Officer Hegedus in the groin. Miss Bednash was not seriously injured, police said. Police also charged Ms. Burns' boyfriend, John Williams, 32, of Scranton, with disorderly conduct and public drunkenness.
The incident would have been over, but Mr. Moran, who went back into the bar after his name-recognition talk with the patrolman, came back outside, according to the affidavit.
Told to go back in the bar, Mr. Moran assumed "a defensive posturing while staring this officer in the eyes" and making a "hmmph or huff sound."
"If you continue to act like this I have approval through my boss to arrest you," the officer reportedly told Mr. Moran.
"Ha! I'll bet you do!" Mr. Moran replied, according to the affidavit.
At that point, the officer arrested Mr. Moran because "his behavior was aggressive" and he feared Mr. Moran's "intoxicated state" would result in injuries to himself or others. Mr. Moran was taken handcuffed to police headquarters where he was cited and released.
Mr. Moran denied to The Times-Tribune that he was drunk, saying he had two or three beers in 45 minutes. He also denied saying "remember my name," or acting menacingly.
"The police officer believes it's justified," Mr. Moran said of his citation. "It'll be up to the magistrate's court. ... I would prefer this would quietly go away, but it's obviously not going to."
“Don’t you know who I am?”
This belies the true reason for liberals’ clamor for power.
Insiders think they will be above all the laws they pass for others (q.v., Congress)
It’s like being a “made man” in the mob.
“Do you recognize the name? Do you know who I am?”
The new liberal mantra.
They’re so full of themselves
Anyone saying the above to a cop should get a complimentary, liability-free beatdown.
“Do you recognize the name? Do you know who I am?”
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Don’t ya’ just love these guys? I mean....srsly. *rolls eyes*
If I were Democrat chairman in the city that unleashed Joe Biden upon the earth, if my city had that on its conscience, I’d stay drunk too.
celebrating the kennedy legacy
By the way, Mr. Chairman, there has only ever been one person on earth that could say “You know who the hell I am?” and make it sound cool...and you are not Robert Craig Knievel.
And don’t forget Hillary. Her father was from Scranton, and her brother still maintains a lakeside house nearby.
He was coming home from the Kennedy Wake and was too drunk to walk.
Pray for America and Our Troops
He’s lying, it is a known fact that no drunk ever had more than 2 beers.
Thoroughly agree. And an IRS audit as well.
My diagnosis suggests he was just suffering the effects of TKD a new medical term named in honor of it’s founder . TKD Ted Kennedy Disease .
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Actually I don't think he was lying. He had 2 beers, then he had a boilermaker, then he had a shot of Irish, then he had 2 more beers, . . .
When he asked "Do you know who I am?" it's probably because he had forgotten.
Do you know who I am? Uh, John Kerry?
So drunk he couldn't remember his own name and needed help?
I think Teddy admitted to drinking three rum-and-cokes before driving off the bridge at Chappaquiddick. Of course he didn't say how many ounces the glasses contained.
He was just celebrating Ted Kennedy’s life.
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