More drunk government officials
Filed Under (Hypocrisy, Inept Bureaucracy) by Don C on 28-02-2008
Everyone has to pay the piper. Instead of a ride home Art Madrid and Trisha Turner should have been treated to ride to the police station.
[La Mesa Mayor Art] Madrid was lying on the sidewalk near the passenger side of his Ford Explorer. [City finance department employee Trisha ] Turner was in the driver’s seat, her feet pointed out the open door. Vomit was observed around the SUV. (Link)
Most people don’t lose their jobs over a drunken indiscretion but almost no one gets a ride home either. It’s not that I’m in favor of incarcerating people over minor alcohol offenses (though who knows what these two were doing prior to pulling over and passing out in their puke,) but I am in favor of government officials being treated like everyone else.
If government officials want to drink without fear of being robbed and thrown in jail they have to let the regular citizenry enjoy the same privilege. On the flip, what’s good for me is good for thee.
