 "I swear, ossifer, I only sprayed a pelosi-spritz of vodka into my OJ!" |
Posted on 08/07/2024 7:46:36 PM PDT by NetAddicted
Walz had a blood alcohol concentration of .128 at the time of the incident, according to a court transcript.
Gov. Tim Walz has said in past campaigns that he wasn’t actually drunk when he was pulled over for driving under the influence in 1995, but a court transcript from the case tells a different story.
Walz was working as a teacher in Alliance, Neb., his home state, when he was pulled over Sept. 23, 1995 for going 96 mph in a 55-mph zone.
“A strong odor of alcoholic beverage was detected emitting from Mr. Walz[‘s] breath and person,” says a Nebraska state trooper’s report on the incident.
Walz submitted to and failed both a field sobriety test and a preliminary breath test, according to the report. He was then transported to Chadron Hospital for a blood test before being booked into the Dawes County Jail.
He was initially charged with driving under the influence and speeding, but the charges were reduced to a lone count of reckless driving under the terms of a plea deal.
The issue emerged during Walz’s successful 2006 campaign for Congress in Minnesota’s First District. In one of the few available articles on the incident, Walz’s campaign manager told the Rochester Post Bulletin he was “not drunk” and “attributed the misunderstanding to Walz’s deafness,” an issue Walz said was caused by his time in the National Guard that has since been “surgically corrected.”
“He couldn’t understand what the officer was saying to him,” Walz’s campaign manager said at the time, noting his deafness caused “balance issues.” Neither the trooper’s report nor the court transcript reference the governor’s hearing issues.
The results of the blood test were later suppressed, seemingly as a result of the trooper’s failure to realize Walz was deaf, according to the Post Bulletin article. This means the results wouldn’t have been used as evidence against Walz had the case gone to trial, but they were still referenced during a March 13, 1996 hearing on the plea agreement.
During that hearing, former Dawes County Attorney Rex Nowlan said that Walz had a blood alcohol concentration of .128 at the time of the incident.
“Mr. Walz was driving south of town on 385 in Dawes County at a high rate of speed. Actually, he was driving away from the police officer. I think that he eventually hit a speed of over 80, as I recall. When he was stopped, he was given a blood test which did show a .128 blood alcohol,” Nowlan said, according to a court transcript.
Walz’s attorney, Russell Harford, later acknowledged that Walz “had been drinking” but said he was driving away from the state trooper because he “thought somebody was chasing him.”
“The state patrol officer turned around and, this is a little, a little bit bizarre, but Mr. Walz thought somebody was chasing him. The officer didn’t turn on his red lights and he — and somebody came up real fast behind him and he didn’t know what they were doing, so he sped up to try to get away, fearing that somebody was after him,” Harford said.
“Low and behold, it was a state patrolman that was behind him, so the faster he went, the faster the state patrol officer went. Finally, he did turn on his red lights. The speed was fairly excessive, judge, a lot over the speed limit. I don’t even know what was alleged in the complaint, it may have been 90 something. Mr. Walz had been — had been drinking, so I think there’s a sufficient factual basis, judge, to support the plea,” he continued.
Harford further admitted that Walz had “a .128” but described this as a “relatively low test.” At the time, the legal limit in Nebraska was .10 but, like all states, has since been lowered to .08.
According to the American Addiction Centers, a BAC of .10 or higher results in reduced reaction time and control, slurred speech, slower thinking and reasoning, and an inability to coordinate arms and legs. The University of Notre Dame says this level of intoxication can cause “significant impairment of motor coordination and loss of good judgment.”
For reference, Hennepin County Sheriff Dave Hutchinson allegedly had a BAC of .13 when he totaled his county-issued vehicle late last year.
Walz’s attorney went on to say that the governor felt so bad about the incident that he offered to resign his teaching position at Alliance High School and all of his extracurricular activities.
“He, I think, takes the position that he’s a role model for the students there. He let them down, he let himself down. Because of that, he was ready to resign his position. Fortunately, the principal talked him out of resigning from [the] school. He did, in fact, though resign from his extracurricular activities,” Harford said.
The judge then asked Walz why it is against the law to “drive with a .128 blood alcohol content.”
“Not just statutory, it’s just a dangerous situation, Your Honor, not just to myself, but to others who are — who aren’t even involved with it,” Walz replied.
At some point later that year, Walz left Nebraska to start a new life in Mankato, Minn., where he began “teaching and coaching” at Mankato West High School, according to his campaign website.
It’s not uncommon for past drunk-driving offenses to emerge on the campaign trail. In fact, in the 2010 gubernatorial contest, Alliance for a Better Minnesota ran ads against Republican Tom Emmer for two past DUI charges. Emmer lost that race to Democrat Mark Dayton by less than half a percentage point, ushering in 12 years of DFL control.
The Alliance for a Better Minnesota ad featured a mother whose son was killed by a drunk driver.
“And then I read that Tom Emmer has been arrested twice himself for drunk driving … And this man wants to be governor? Minnesota needs a governor who’s on our side — and that’s just not Tom Emmer,” the ad said.
The governor’s office was provided with a copy of the transcript but did not respond to three requests for comment over four days.
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The DUI was in ‘95. He claimed the deafness was service related. Popping off artillery rounds without hearing protection, maybe? Sounds like BS. The .125 BAC is damning, regardless of other factors.
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Walz is a far left fraud with a big mouth and a crappy state flag with a design that looks like it was stolen from Idi Amin and Suicide Sara. The damn rag looks more like it represents an African colony than one of the States in America. Geez. Morons.
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Don’t mess with the Arkansas State Troopers or Chief Bradly Taylor from Hazen AR. They will ruin your day if you choose the wrong path.
From the movie Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas:
“Few people understand the psychology of dealing with a highway traffic cop. Your normal speeder will panic and immediately pull over to the side.
This is wrong. It aroused contempt in the cop heart.”
https://youtu.be/BwDlobymMk0?si=STgLRwjAsXzTt0CY
Make the bastard chase you. He will follow...”
A 30 year old dui is irrelevant.
The guys a far left liberal POS but this is irrelevant.
This one is just too old for me to care. It’s too much like trying to drink have an offer trying to feel up a girl at a party when he was in high school.
Walz seems like he is a pretty typical Democrat. Not an honest bone in his body.
That seems to be a common characteristic on the Left now. I don’t believe it was always so (maybe 40-50 years ago...or more) but today?
Absolutely.
“attributed the misunderstanding to Walz’s deafness,” an issue Walz said was caused by his time in the National Guard that has since been “surgically corrected.”
Let’s see the medical records then. I’ve heard he was faking being deaf to try to get out of the ticket.
I think they are holding back on some of the stuff they found out about him.At least according to X there is.
If I read the chart correctly then 0.128 BAC is a six pack for someone 200 pounds.
Walzy likes extreme speeding and drunk driving and doesn’t care who he kills or maims.
What is relevant is the lying about being deaf.
He lied about his military service in a couple of ways.
Lying is the pattern.
Oh yeah—and Kamala lies about being “black”.
Lying is the pattern and is relevant.
Thanks. Had no idea there were so many covers. Great fun song.
How that story about Bush became public the Thursday before the election was never explained--it may have cost him 4 million votes by one estimate. One theory advanced on FR at the time was that it came from the FBI dossier on Bush's father, which could have been one of the FBI dossiers Hillary got a hold of. The story was so old that someone going to the county courthouse in Maine would probably not have found it.
Or perhaps someone in the FBI took it on himself to leak the story.
"I swear, ossifer, I only sprayed a pelosi-spritz of vodka into my OJ!" |
You and me both.
Is Walz DEAF now? Or was this just temporary. Was it ever shown in court by test or evidence that he was deaf? Any doctors’ statements/diagnoses? If he was/is deaf, how did he get into the Army let alone become provisional Command Sergeant Major?
We’ll never know if it’s up to the MSM to ask and get answers.
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