Posted on 03/05/2021 7:44:56 AM PST by dead
A New Jersey lawmaker was arrested Thursday morning and charged for driving while intoxicated after hitting two parked cars following near her Jersey City home, according to authorities.
State Sen. Sandra Cunningham, D-Hudson, was charged after she sideswiped the cars at about 9:30 a.m...
Cunningham reportedly told police “I was coming down the street when I was about to make a turn and instead turned into a snowbank,” police said in the report.
She crashed her Infiniti G35X SUV into a parked Nissan Altima and a Ford Focus....
In 2006, she pled guilty to operating a vehicle under the influence of drugs or alcohol and paid a $708 fine after she was ticketed in November 2005 with a DWI with a blood alcohol reading of .18, according to public records.
“This is out of character for me, and a mistake,” she said at the time...
Cunningham was first elected as a senator in 2007, three years after her husband, Jersey City Mayor Glenn Cunningham, died while in office.
She is the deputy majority leader and chairwoman of the Senate Higher Education Committee, vice chairwoman of the Budget and Appropriations Committee and a member of the Education Committee and the Select Committee on New Jersey Transit, according to her bio on New Jersey Legislature.
(Excerpt) Read more at nj.com ...
Nobody knew she drank until the day she showed up sober
We need to ban this dangerous drug.
9:30 am? Did she pull an all-nighter, or start early?
There are still a few roadside piles of unmelted snow in places where the plows stacked it high to clear intersections and driveways.
“This is out of character for me, and a mistake.”
LoL! Was she drinking early or still drinking late?
No, the “out of character” was that she got caught.
That's like Cuomo describing his sexual harassment as "customary" for him.
It's funny how our experiences color our interpretations of events. My first thought was about how fun those nights were when I was still partying at 9:30 am!
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