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Pot Blackens After Accusing Kettle

Matt Welch | 7.25.2003 1:28 AM

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From the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel:

Hours after declaring Wisconsin to be in a transportation "safety crisis" because of rising traffic fatalities, the state's top transportation safety official was arrested on charges of drunken driving.

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  1. Dan   22 years ago

    oops

  2. T. Hartin   22 years ago

    Yeah, this guy's job was basically to travel the state wagging his finger in our faces and lobbying for, you guessed it, the .08 BAC standard. He was arrested with a BAC of .14.

    Of course, as a state employee, he will not lose his job, but will instead be rewarded with a transfer to a less demanding position.

    Schmuck.

  3. david f   22 years ago

    how about transferring him to the greater metropolitan area of Neenah-Menasha?

    eh?

    (some brick cheez with that?)

    drf

  4. Sic Semper Tyrannosaurus   22 years ago

    Great headline, Matt. I just linked it on the site (along with your picture, if you don't mind).

  5. D.J. Vu   22 years ago

    "Don't do unto others what you don't want to have done to you."

    Where did I read that?

  6. Evilcor   22 years ago

    It would appear there is a God after all. Who knew he had such a sense of Irony?
    (Don't worry, still a Bright!)
    Evilcor

  7. Evilcor   22 years ago

    Not so Bright after all. I just realized I capitalized "irony".
    Almost ironic.

  8. J Canuck   22 years ago

    Read Spider Robinson. God IS an iron.

  9. Apis   22 years ago

    This just goes to show you that laws against drunk driving are worthless, and should be taken off the books. Friggin prohibitionists...

  10. Evilcor   22 years ago

    Am I the only one who is getting mighty tired of Apis?

  11. Garelik Jane   21 years ago

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    DATE: 01/20/2004 07:13:24
    Morality by consensus is frequently morality by convenience.

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