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Next stop: McNulty says in the Post story today he didn’t learn about Bradford’s stop by police until Friday. Did Bradford try to keep it a secret?
Outta there!
This is quickly going to start hurting McNulty if he does not request her resignation. Does McNulty think lobbyist happy hour is a legislative function? Let him say so then!
Outta there…
Fucking job killing Republicans . . . such a shame, it was one of maybe only two things that a large majority in both parties could agree on. (Happy hour and campaign contributions.)
Starting next week, breathalyzers at both chambers’ doors . . .
Too bad Bradford didn’t kill a pregnant woman and tamper with evidence.
Maybe grandchildren?
Would you leave one lying on the road after something like that?
Is there ANY evidence that Williams didn’t cooperate with the lengthy grand jury investigation? Fucking bullshit and you know it.
The problem with Bradford is there will not be a grand jury.
Driving under the influence is serious, but since all the evidence for that has been blown, there’s still the matter of Bradford stating that she had just attended a “legislative function.” I never referred to drinking with my work friends as a “work function,” so I hope you (and Bradford, and anyone else) aren’t going to say she could have called it that innocently.
Please keep your dark, snarky opinions to yourself! No one wants anyone harmed for any reason.
Wow.
Please note Williams wasn’t drunk behind the wheel. If she was, all the Dems on Pols would be asking her to resign, too. She wasn’t.
There isn’t a blogger on Pols that hasn’t swerved their car once because something in the car distracted them/hit them/surprised them/etc. at some point during their years driving, leaving them to think, “Thank God that didn’t cause an accident”. If you say you’ve always driven perfectly 100% of the time, I’m calling you a liar. Mistakes happen. It’s every person’s responsibility to decrease the likelihood of driving accidents by staying sober and not texting while driving.
She told a blatant lie to get out of the humiliation of a DUI and she got caught. Time to go.
Couldn’t you have rounded up? 🙂
We need the highway funds.
Ms. Tipple knew exactly what her statement would get her and that’s why she pulled this bit of arcania outta her ass. She can’t pull a mea culpa after having lied to the officer, hids the facts until it blew up on Fri, and then pulled her doublespeak crap on the floor. She has disgraced the Leg & her colleagues. It’s back 2 the Western slope for beer-breathed Bradford and the sooner the better so this Leg can get on with business.
[Balmer’s resolution passed on a 33-31 vote, but it wasn’t completely a partisan split. Rep. Wes McKinley, D-Cokedale, voted in favor of the resolution while Rep. Laura Bradford, R-Colbran, voted against it.
Bradford later said she’d made a mistake.
“I was distracted,” she said, and voted the wrong way.]
http://blogs.denverpost.com/th…
probably takes practice
Who was buying the drinks?
While I am not a fan of amendment 41, it is in the constitution and if Rep. Bradford tab was picked up, she might have another problem.
Live by the constitution: die by the constitution.
Enough. Stop right there. Most of these lobbying outfits in Colorado could probably be considered “small businesses.” Let’s not be attacking capitalism here . . .
From my blog last night:
Let’s keep this in perspective. I see no reasonable interpretation of the no-interference-with a legislator that applies to the Bradford incident. She ought to be appropriately prosecuted for driving while impaired.
We have had several legislators over the years who have gotten into trouble for driving impaired, and some of them ended up in alcohol abuse treatment. Some of them were highly respected and regarded legislators yet they did not shirk their personal responsibility for their actions.
I do not think that this arises to the level of having her resign her seat, but I think that the House of Representatives needs to censure her on the record and the Speaker needs to make her removal as a committee chairman permanent.
In just a matter of weeks she will be facing her constituents in the nominating process and they can take appropriate action with respect to her political future. If I were one of her constituents, I would be hard pressed to support her for renomination.
Great point, Abe.
Particularly with elections nearing anyway.
As fun as “off with her head!” is to shout, the people elect House representatives every two years for a reason. Resignation should be a punishment reserved for the very gravest offenses. Censure and the criminal justice system should handle those offenses which they are resigned to handle.
On the upside, at least she clearly wasn’t that drunk:
That’s not bad, for thinking while impaired.
Already rehearsed this scenario?
First time she did it? Not likely.
And good observation
Sounds like this has happened before (just this time, it was reported more officially)
today about this issue. The consensus of opinion here is that this constituency will re-elect her anyway. I am sure that is why she chose to invoke the bogus rule anyway. She won’t lose her job and she just saved herself about ten grand and and a shitload of hassle.
She took the path of least resistance.
That Denver PD will announce “significant new information” on the Bradford case at a 3:30 PM press conference.
http://www.kdvr.com/news/kdvr-…
Does anyone more familiar with Denver Media know where this might be streamed so we yokels on the west side of the mountains might watch it?
To answer my own question, I called the Fox31 Newsroom and they plan to stream it.
thereby proving her claim false that she didn’t invoke or ask for this legislative priviledge ?
Rep. Bradford asked (at least twice) to be treated like everyone else during the stop.
Bad judgment to drink and drive? Yes. Campaign issue? Yes. Should she resign? No.
The officer who pulled Bradford over showed character for coming forward because of the mischaracterizations.
DPS was right to apologies.
you are right. I have not seen the new info.
Her own words above are pretty clear, however.
She shouldn’t resign. She has gotten away with it.
Some poor schlub in a blue suit will now take the rap for her bad behavior.
But not her.
Did you repeatedly ask (at least twice) to be treated like everyone else? I never have, either.
Seems to me, rather than being a situation of someone wanting to be in good faith “treated like everyone else,” the good Representative was letting those officers involved know in no uncertain terms that they damn sure needed to know that they were dealing with a very special someone who was, most definitely, not like everyone else . . .
To me these “requests” for equal treatment smell as bad as just about everything else surrounding this incident.