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We missed this City Desk report that D.C. Shadow Senator Paul Strauss pleaded guilty last Friday on charges stemming from his DUI stop in Adams Morgan last year. Strauss is one of the District's two elected shadow senators, a symbolic position charged with lobbying for statehood that carries few privileges and no pay. Following his guilty plea, Strauss received 11 months probation and must pay $400 in fines. The police account of Strauss's arrest stated that he had a 0.16 percent blood-alcohol level, twice the legal limit, that he "appeared confused" and that he flashed his U.S. Senate badge at the arresting officer.
Shadow Senator Paul Strauss Pleads Guilty to DUI
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The Shadow Senator "flashed his U.S. Senate badge."
Immediate image of Ty Lookwell whipping out his Lucite Honorary Crime Stopper award.
Okay. Dude definitely has a drinking problem, no?
Anyway, I'm inclined to cut the guy some slack. It's not like he has much else to do besides sit in his basement, drink all day, and make obscene phonecalls to Kay Bailey Hutchison.
The link didn't take. This isn't the first time Strauss has flashed his badge and bought himself a DUI. At what point do they pull his license?
You realize that's the same incident, right? This post even links to the same previous post you linked to . . .
What's a drinking problem? Drinking is fun. 2,396,094 people can't be wrong.
I never had problems when I was drinking. It was on my way home after drinking that I got in trouble.
Only FOUR HUNDRED DOLLARS for a DUI??? I need a lawyer like his.
tell me about it...
So what's it going to take to get this drunk clown off the streets? A couple dead pedestrians? A dead hooker in the trunk? Because I know some guys, see? Yeah, see? Where's your messiah now, see? Myar, myar, see?
With guys like this..Harriette Walters...The Dry-Cleaning Pants guy...and a cast of thousands..we are looking like CLASS A BAFOONS to the world. Stay classy DC.
Strategies for becoming "the next Ted Kennedy" can certainly be misguided.
DCist should sponsor a "Two Lane Blacktop" style crosscountry race between Strauss in his G.T.O. (he even looks like Warren Oates!) and Jim Graham in his VW Bug. Hell, throw in Mayor Barely in his Jaguar hoopty for good measure. Call it "Jackass Gumball Rally" and you have the breakout reality tv series of the season. With the three of them out of town, DUIs, DWIs, doubleparking incidents, and stupid legislation will decline precipitously.
..as long as I get to be in the blooper reel at the end of the movie where I'm riding in a car with Hunter Thompson and G. Gordon Liddy singing 'The Pina Cola Song' and other Ruppert Holmes songs.
Don't forget Marlene Chalmers Cook (or whatever her name was. She needs to have a big beefy man banging on the hood of her Jag while she slaloms drunkely through G'town.
Methinks the "Senator" doth cast a beefy shadow too.
Damn you, Monkey, now I have the "Cannonball" theme song running in my head. With a few more pounds I could definitely see "Senator" Strauss as Dom Deluise role.
Why does this guy have a Senate ID badge? He has no official business whatsoever in the Capitol or any of the Senate Office Buildings. His office is a creation of the DC government, not the US Senate, so the DC goverment should credential him.
His job is to lobby the US Senate for statehood. That can be done during normal business hours when the buildings are open to the public.
Given a guy like this any sort of badge is just asking for trouble.
Why does he have a Senate ID badge? You could have one too, if you had an ink jet printer and some lamination sheets.
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