Posted on 03/03/2010 11:54:42 PM PST by Chet 99
Sources tell CBS13 a state senator from Southern California was arrested for allegedly driving drunk after leaving Faces, a gay nightclub in midtown Sacramento, early Wednesday morning.
The California Highway Patrol pulled over Senator Roy Ashburn at 2:00 a.m. Wednesday after an officer noticed a black Chevy Tahoe swerving at 13th and L Streets.
When the officer stopped the state-issued vehicle, the driver identified himself as Senator Ashburn. He was arrested without incident and charged with two misdemeanors: driving under the influence and driving with a blood alcohol level higher than .08% or higher.
A male passenger, who was not identified as a lawmaker, was also in the car but was not detained.
Ashburn was booked into the Sacramento County Jail and released on $1,400 bond.
Ashburn, a father of four, is a Republican Senator representing parts of Kern, Tulare and San Bernardino Counties with a history of opposing gay rights.
Ashburn issued a statement on the arrest Wednesday afternoon:
"I am deeply sorry for my actions and offer no excuse for my poor judgment. I accept complete responsibility for my conduct and am prepared to accept the consequences for what I did. I am also truly sorry for the impact this incident will have on those who support and trust me – my family, my constituents, my friends, and my colleagues in the Senate."
Ashburn served six years as a state Assemblyman before being elected to the State Senate.
Kind of a stupid place to go if he didn’t want to get outed, drunk driving or no.
Oh, the Libs will go wild with this one, look at how slanted the story is already...Sodomite hypocite, oh, Maddow and the NYT are licking their chops....
No (limited) news on Rangel and Issa, however.
Media, the best way to promote or detract what your ideology is.
At least it wasn’t a dead girl.
I’ve even been to that club before, it’s a very crazy place.
No, but he did have this :
"A male passenger, who was not identified as a lawmaker, was also in the car but was not detained."
And I'm sure he had perfectly plausible explanation for that "male passenger" being in his car.
So don't go jumping to conclusions...
That would be the “live boy”.
“Opposes gay rights”. Means he probably isn’t pro gay marriage.
he was probably just there doing “research”.
Sounds like what happened a few yrs back with a Mass.
bankruptcy judge, who got a DUI after showing up in drag
at a Manchester, NH gay club
>>Reports claim that the married federal judge was dressed in drag. “He had a difficult time locating his license in his purse,” wrote arresting officer Paul J. Thompson in his police report, as rehashed by Union Leader, the Manchester newspaper that broke the scoop on Somma’s choice of eveningwear.
>>By the Union Leader’s own admission, the purse reference was the only passing comment on attire in the entire police report, and other sources—including Manchester Police Department representatives and Gregory T. Muller, attorney with the city solicitor office—refused to comment to the paper on the nature of Somma’s fashion choice at the time of the incident.
>>The Union Leader’s subsequent choice to turn cross-dressing into headline news— potentially outing a public figure and further embarrassing his likely distraught family—has received its own share of scrutiny from members of the GLBT community.
>>”I’m a little upset about how this all happened,” says Doogie (last name withheld by request), a manager at The Breezeway Pub in Manchester. According to reports, Somma told officers that he was at The Breezeway—a popular New Hampshire gay bar—two hours prior to his DWI incident. “I feel bad for the fellow,” says Doogie, who believes that media reports have been irresponsible in divulging the details of Somma’s dress.
http://www.edgeboston.com/index.php?ch=news&sc=local&sc2=features&sc3=&id=70805
(The judge later resigned IIRC)
I heard the bastard like Pittbulls.
I wonder if he said, "Don't you know who I am??!"
“charged with two misdemeanors: driving under the influence and driving with a blood alcohol level higher than .08% or higher.”
What BS is this? Talk about stacking charges.
What, no protests that the party affiliation is not in the headline (or the first five paragraphs for that matter)?
“What, no protests that the party affiliation is not in the headline (or the first five paragraphs for that matter)?”
Well, he is a member of The Stupid Party:
http://www.votesmart.org/bio.php?can_id=9694
So we will hear about it 24/7...
Ashburn....gay nightclub.....how appropriate.
The charges aren’t being stacked. It is routine for drunk drivers in California to be arrested for driving while impaired, and for driving with their blood alcohol content being .08 or higher. I talked to a defense attorney who said the strange thing about this is that juries will often convict a person on one of the charges and let the person off on the other.
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