Wow that’s quite an achievement. .234 takes some serious effort. Kudos.

This is sad.

You can’t make this shit up…

Scrub said:
Wow that’s quite an achievement. .234 takes some serious effort. Kudos.

No kidding. I guess she’ll now be joining DAMM. (drunks against mad mothers)

.234? Good Lord in Heaven! It’s amazing she didn’t kill herself or someone else. I hope she is able to find a prosecutor and a judge who will not only punish the transgression but also work to get her some help. MADD, for all of the good it can do, has often been terribly draconian emphasizing the punitive wholly at the expense of the rehabilitative. Perhaps, she will find more mercy than her organization often summons up.

To be fair there’s hundreds, if not more than a thousand former local chapter presidents of this once popular organization. As a realtor in Florida, she may have become the president to help her business, so she may not have ever believed in the group’s central message.

…or she could be going through bad times and has fallen off the wagon, either way works.

Wanna bet she always votes Democrit……………………..if and when she’s sober enough to find the polling place. Nothing a Democrit demands for others applies to themselves.

Forrest said it best, “Stupid is, as Stupid Does”

According to MADD there is no valid excuse for DUI, and they have lobbied to make it a felony in many states, I hope they throw the book at her, and she gets to benefit from some of these idiotic laws she helped get passed.
6 months jail, $10,000.00 fine, and loss of drivers license for a year, and loss of real estate license, ought to do it nicely. Oh and throw in the about $5,000.00 attorney fees she is gonna have to pay too.

US $5,000.00, in attorney’s would be extraordinarily cheap in Texas.

The punishment is of no consequence to me, and, indeed, of no particular value to society. This is a wake-up call which will result in serious rehabilitative efforts by her, or it is an inconvenient and expensive detour which will result in her turning to cheaper liquor.

I hope the state provides some rehabilitative options to her.

Davo said:
Wanna bet she always votes Democrit……………………..if and when she’s sober enough to find the polling place. Nothing a Democrit demands for others applies to themselves.

Brilliant as always, Drug Store Cowboy. Let’s see, a woman, in real estate, in the Dixie part of Florida, who was a member of MADD …. Couldn’t be anything but a Democrat, could it?

I suppose the Bush girls were Democrats?

Since the prohibitionists are always Democrats. Right. They should havebeen forced to take the 2nd D off their name 20 years ago when they started openly campaigning for changes in non-driving related alcohol laws. Mutts against drinking. An alcohol related accident in the US: 2 sober drivers, one rear ends the other, one passenger in one of the cars has been drinking = alcohol related accident. Then they take those inflated statistics to pass more worthless draconian prohibitionist laws. We should have exterminated the Puritans at this country’s founding.

The Real Royal King said:
.234? Good Lord in Heaven! It’s amazing she didn’t kill herself or someone else. I hope she is able to find a prosecutor and a judge who will not only punish the transgression but also work to get her some help. MADD, for all of the good it can do, has often been terribly draconian emphasizing the punitive wholly at the expense of the rehabilitative. Perhaps, she will find more mercy than her organization often summons up.

I could not disagree more. This is the same MADD zealot that was for publishing the names and photos of of people that had only been arrested and not yet had a trial. She advocated mandatory minimum sentences and such lovely things as seizure of private property without benefit of a hearing. MADD routinely opposed and rehab or other efforts to deal with the actual drinking issues and wanted punishment. Well, let her be punished.

She should go (as she herself advocated) straight to jail for the maximum sentence, never again have a driver’s license, have to pay the cost of her prosecution and have her photo, name and phone number on a billboard near her home. She pushed for all of that before she drank what must have been a truckload to get to .234.

Davo said:
Wanna bet she always votes Democrit……………………..if and when she’s sober enough to find the polling place. Nothing a Democrit demands for others applies to themselves.

Won’t matter. If, as she advocated, she is convicted of the felony DUI, she won’t be voting. Florida law strips voting rights on conviction.

Magister said:
As a realtor in Florida, she may have become the president to help her business, so she may not have ever believed in the group’s central message.

Nope. That is excusology. She was a chapter president and MADD is particularly vocal here. Live by the zealot’s intolerance, do time by the zealot’s intolerance.

I do love a nice dose of hypocrisy based news first thing in the morning.

I am starting a non-profit (In hopes of getting some govmnt’ money … lots-O-govmnt’ money) it is called DAMM – Drunks Against Mad Mothers.

Actually I am against Drinking and Driving – but the thought of that “Govmnt’” money seems intriguing.

A little know fact – that drives MADD mad. Actually this drives lots of people mad.
In my state, it is legal to drive down the open highway while drinking a beer with a loaded gun in the dash.

With the exception of the eastern liberal states with over reaching gun laws, I would suspect you could do the same in most states.

“DO AS I SAY, NOT AS I DO”. —this boozer must be a lunatic-left d-crat socialist (she’s got their ideology down pat.)

“The report states that Oberlin told the officer she had four “

The stock answer a driver who has been drinking is “I had a couple of beers a couple of hours ago.”

At .234 and .239 means she was still on the rise, meaning she probably was even higher than the .239.

The roadsides would have been easy for this woman, the officer would only had to have her stand in from of him or her and ask her to “touch her ass with both hands.”

They probably would have had to catch her if she tried.

D’oh!
~ Homer Simpson

njoy-d-ride said:
This is sad.

It’s sort of sad. I watched her on C-SPAN one morning defending the draconian laws she and her organization helped pass. One man had called up and said it had effected his career, and that he was automatically disqualified him for some positions. My sympathies are with him. I was coming from an office party, when I got stopped within a block of my house. My headlight was burned out. I was actually sober enough to drive, but I was way past the legal limit. I was arrested and put in handcuffs, and taken to the station, though I was within walking distance of my house. It was the first time I’d aver experienced such a thing. But it didn’t stop there. My license was suspended for six months. Yeah. This is basically house arrest. I had t get a ride back and forth from work. The cost to me was something like $1700. Then I had to answer the question, “Have you ever been convicted of a crime, any crime, within the last seven years?” I had to answer it yes.

Here’s what’s bad about those laws. First of all, us first-time offenders don’t need to have the law come crush us like cockroaches. A simple fine would have been good enough. True problem drinkers pay no attention to the level of the fines. There is something wrong with them, and they’re repeat offenders, regardless of how much trouble they get into. A first time offender doesn’t have to be treated like a criminal. Believe me, a $500 fine would have given me the message, to never risk it again. But we’re a country now who likes to make every infraction a major crime, where a person has to wear it for a long time, and sometimes forever, as in the case of sex offenders. We’re getting more hateful with each passing year, thanks to politicians who love all these feel-good laws, using satisfying a niche group and niche issue. We love to punish our neighbor. Eventually, everyone will have broken some law; everybody will have a record.

I’ll be damn…you can’t tell who you can believe or trust these days. Well there’s always the good ol’ Sunday morning Televangelists with their Rolex watches, Armini suits, $400.00 haircuts and let us not forget the 60′ long Limo that pulls em up to the front door of their Mega church.Praise the Lord and pass the plate. Give me 3 Hallelujahs and an Amen…!!! Yeeeeowzza…….

Alric_IV said:
It’s sort of sad. I watched her on C-SPAN one morning defending the draconian laws she and her organization helped pass.

You are absolutely correct, these are draconian laws, as are when spouses fight and one calls the police, usually it is the man who goes to jail.

Organizations like MADD, the ones behind supporting the Domestic Violence laws have created a cottage industry in making these things illegal. In our state, the classes people have to go to, under court order, are expensive.

Now let me be clear, I am not talking about career drunks or wife beaters, I am referring to first time offenders. Then you compound that with the vulture lawyers and it can cost a lot of bucks and disrupt a family for years…but everybody made their Money.

The police have ABSOLUTELY NO latitude to make a judgment call in the field. There are way too many lawyers waiting for cops not to follow the line of the law.

Every one of these damn laws have been created by the left and they are the ones who have created the industry behind them.

tatboy said:
You can’t make this shit up…

i KNOW that’s right. After reading all the posts and the article, I’m still laughing.

She’s a cutie

Keeva said:
Nope. That is excusology. She was a chapter president and MADD is particularly vocal here. Live by the zealot’s intolerance, do time by the zealot’s intolerance.

I’m not familiar with the history of the Gainesville chapter, so she may have been a true believer, but I’m sure not every chapter president really cared about the issue and some played it for political power, name recognition and because they’d often get onto the local news appearing like an involved member of the community.

But again, I don’t live in Gainesville and I’ve never subscribed to MADD or its positions.

BTW: The print piece says the local chapter is defunct, so we have to assume the reporter called the state or national office to obtain the boilerplate response.

Davo said:
Wanna bet she always votes Democrit……………………..if and when she’s sober enough to find the polling place. Nothing a Democrit demands for others applies to themselves.

bahaha, it’s funny you radicals put everything into that partisan mindset, whether it’s charlie sheen or drunk drivers. What an idiot.

these organizations are idiotic. There is literally a group of mothers against everything, from dirty television to rap music. Maybe if mothers took better care of their kids they wouldn’t be drunk drivers in the first place.

Debra the real estate lady. ’nuff said there… Both my folks were realtors. They only lie when their mouths are moving.

Davo said:
Wanna bet she always votes Democrit……………………..if and when she’s sober enough to find the polling place. Nothing a Democrit demands for others applies to themselves

Put me in for my life savings.

She did a lot of good work and has been responsible for saving lives. This is an embarrassing moment, but it is not the end and it certainly doesn’t erase the body of work. Some states have taken the MADD goals too far, but this lady changed lives for the better. Hope this is a single mistake and not a symptom of something more serious.,

a 0.23+, unfortunately, usually isn’t a one time thing. It takes a little practice to operate a vehicle (start a vehicle!) at that level of intoxication.

pretty disappointing.

What’s up with all the political attacks?
-”Nothing a Democrit demands for others applies to themselves”
-“DO AS I SAY, NOT AS I DO”. —this boozer must be a lunatic-left d-crat socialist (she’s got their ideology down pat.)
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Did the right wing Christian Taliban forget about all of their “Family Values” idols, their affairs, meth fueled homosexual hooker parties, pregnant kids, public toilet parties with random men (“I din’t inhale!” heh), fondling pages (while the rest of the Repubs looked away).

I admit people are flawed. I also think people in glass public toilets shouldn’t throw stones. Or guys snorting glass off the backside of a bodybuilder…
another “duh” from those with planks in their eyes….

They took my mommy to jail and daddy wouldn’t even go her bail; he said he had to finish his rant on Glenn Beck Review. I wish I didn’t look so much like daddy. Will you please buy me a kitten?

MAAD doesn’t save lives, in fact, MAAD has distracted cops from going after distracted drivers instead of wasting time with harmless drunk drivers. Distracted driving is far more dangerous than drunk driving. If I had three beers and I’m’ driving perfectly, why is that your problem?

http://libertarians4freedom.blogspot.com/

Davo said:
Wanna bet she always votes Democrit……………………..if and when she’s sober enough to find the polling place. Nothing a Democrit demands for others applies to themselves.

Really? You want to go there??

Crimes against children:

Republican U.S. Justice Department official John David R. Atchison
Republican city councilman John Bryan
The former head of the Michigan Federation of Young Republicans, Michael Flory
Brian J. Doyle, the Deputy Press Secretary for the U.S. Department of Homeland Security’s Office of Public Affairs in Washington
Republican Congressman Mark Foley
Republican executive Randall Casseday of the conservative Washington Times
Republican chairman of the Oregon Christian Coalition Lou Beres
Republican County Constable Larry Dale Floyd
Republican judge Mark Pazuhanich
Republican Party leader Bobby Stumbo
Republican petition drive manager Tom Randall
Republican County Chairman Armando Tebano
Republican teacher and former city councilman John Collins
Republican campaign worker Mark Seidensticker
Republican Mayor Philip Giordano
Republican Mayor Tom Adams
Republican Mayor John Gosek
Republican County Commissioner David Swartz
Republican legislator Edison Misla Aldarondo
Republican Committeeman John R. Curtain
Republican anti-abortion activist Howard Scott Heldreth
Republican zoning supervisor, Boy Scout leader and Lutheran church president Dennis L. Rader
Republican anti-abortion activist Nicholas Morency
Republican campaign consultant Tom Shortridge
Republican racist pedophile and United States Senator Strom Thurmond
Republican pastor Mike Hintz
Republican legislator Peter Dibble
Republican advertising consultant Carey Lee Cramer
Republican activist Lawrence E. King Jr.
Republican lobbyist Craig J. Spence
Republican Congressman Donald “Buz” Lukens
Republican fundraiser Richard A. Delgaudio
Republican activist Mark A. Grethen
Republican activist Randal David Ankeney
Republican Congressman Dan Crane
Republican activist and Christian Coalition leader Beverly Russell
Republican Judge Ronald C. Kline
Republican congressman and anti-gay activist Robert Bauman
Republican Committee Chairman Jeffrey Patti
Republican activist Marty Glickman
Republican legislative aide Howard L. Brooks
Republican Senate candidate John Hathaway
Republican preacher Stephen White
Republican talk-show host Jon Matthews
Republican Party leader Paul Ingram
Republican election board official Kevin Coan
Republican politician Andrew Buhr
Republican legislator Keith Westmoreland
Republican anti-abortion activist John Allen Burt
Republican County Councilman Keola Childs
Republican activist John Butler
Republican candidate Richard Gardner
Republican Councilman and former Marine Jack W. Gardner
Republican County Commissioner Merrill Robert Barter
Republican City Councilman Fred C. Smeltzer, Jr.
Republican activist Parker J. Bena
Republican parole board officer and former Colorado state representative, Larry Jack Schwarz
Republican strategist Robin Vanderwall
Republican city councilman Mark Harris
Republican businessman Jon Grunseth
Republican campaign worker, police officer and self-proclaimed reverend Steve Aiken
Republican director of the “Young Republican Federation” Nicholas Elizondo
Republican president of the New York City Housing Development Corp. Russell Harding
Republican benefactor of conservative Christian groups, Richard A. Dasen Sr.

Republican Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld authorized the rape of children in Iraqi prisons in
order to humiliate their parents into providing information about the anti-American insurgency.

Republican County Board Candidate Brent Schepp
Republican Mayor Jeffrey Kyle Randall
Republican County Commissioner Patrick Lee McGuire
Republican congressional aide Jeffrey Nielsen
Republican city councilman Joseph Monteleone Jr.
Republican legislator Ted Klaudt

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http://armchairsubversive.blogspot.com/

Oh, yeah—and let’s not forget Ted Bundy…yep. Your party has some REAL charmers in the ranks.

1. Chaser your post is absurd. 2. I read Oberlin’s original story about how her daughter was killed by a drunk driver. The last time she saw her daughter they were arguing. I am sorry for her loss, but her knee-jerk reaction based in guilt has led to many innocent people harrassed, arrested, fined, jailed, and living through embarrassment and even having their careers ruined. The police eat this stuff up; its obviously an easier and safer way to earn a living than chasing drug dealers and other real criminals down dark alleys.

chaser said:
Really? You want to go there??

Wow, you can use google. Congrats. I just did it for Democrats for sexual offenders, tax evaders, and “Going Green” hypocrisy. The results are staggering.

Yeah, I didn’t do it first, did I. Glad you can google!! Your mommy must be very proud…yawn.

Davo,

She was a self-righteous hypocrite, so she would be a tea party member! That’s unfair,……. she would be someone like you!

This hypocrite better be burned at the stake and not let off because of her past ties. Give her the additional penalties for blowing 2x the limit that MADD so adamantly fought for so she sees what it’s really like. As someone that has never been in an accident, nor gotten arrested before a DUI(.095) late last year I can attest to the absurd amount of flaming hoops you have to jump through just to get my life back together. Not to mention the ridiculous insurance premiums that are now required due to convictions. If she get’s off on a reckless driving, then this whole MADD thing is a big scam. I’ll be paying close attention to how this plays out

I’m a republican…you’re just an idiot. Please stop dragging our good name down by taking our side. This article is not about her political beliefs, and hypocrisy exists in all political parties; the “left-d-crats” don’t own the concept.

Had a lady hit me with no licence no registration in a car that wasn’t fit for the road. Called the police and they refused to show up. The reason was that they were too busy. Then drove down the road to find eight cop cars operating a speed trap. The MONEY is were its at. If everyone wan’ts to put an end to this MADDness you only have to look at how they got to where they are at and target what hurts them most,The MONEY !! Go on their website where they proudly advertise their sponsosr and give those companies a call. Let them know you won’t purchase their products or services in the future if they continue down this slippery slope. NO FUNDS = NO MADD  it’s that simple. General Motors sponsors MADD and do you hear MADD complaining about the fact that GM produces some of the fastest cars put on the road in north america. Speed kills as they say but MADD won’t even talk about it. Nor will they talk about the texting that causes more accidents . It’s all about the money and both of those problems won’t bring them one cent so they have cut a deal with the companies that would profit from aligning themselves with MADD. We just had a cop hit a vehicle with his two kids in the car and fled the scene only to return after with liquor on his breath and claims he had a few at home. You can bet he will get off. Let’s see what they do with this special lady and then we will see how this system works.

How very sad this is. Booze dont care it takes out all kinds of folks… I feel bad for her and hope she gets help and sober’s up…..God Bless her……

I just love irony.

wtf who would use drugs to cure this batshit phoney
that’s like giving a psychopath a knife