The Repub challenger to Senator Maria Cantwell’s seat in Congress, Mike McGavick, decided that honesty is the best policy.
U.S. Senate candidate Mike McGavick, in an unsolicited confession of “the very worst and most embarrassing things” of his personal and professional life, revealed Thursday he was charged with drunken driving 13 years ago.
And for being honest, the local left is breaking his balls.
I’d like to perform an experiment, and I’m looking for a couple of volunteers.
First, I need somebody with a good quality, professional “breathalyzer.â€
Second, I need an approximately 200-pound man, willing and able to consume eight drinks in a single hour.
If we can get both of these to this Tuesday’s Drinking Liberally, I’d like to see exactly how many drinks it takes to achieve a 0.17 percent blood-alcohol level, and a general idea of the associated level of impairment.
They want to nitpick a 13 year old traffic violation instead of debate things like, oh I don’t know, National Security or Energy Policy.
Don’t misunderstand me; DUI is one of the worst violations of trust a person can inflict upon their fellow citizens and is not treated criminally seriously in my mind, but this is one arrest (there was no conviction) over a decade ago. If McGavick had two or three DUI arrests over the period of two or more decades, then I would have a problem.
But the local left is looking for any reason to hammer on the guy who is gathering momentum on their candidate, and this is the best they can do.
And no, if the tables were turned, a 1993 Cantwell DUI article wouldn’t even make to this blog and I would chide those would post on it.
That is how much of a non-issue it is.