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State Rep. Kip Smith charged with DUI in Buckhead

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Republican state Rep. Kip Smith was arrested early Friday morning in Buckhead and charged with DUI, according to an Atlanta police report obtained by Channel 2 Action News.

What makes this newsworthy? How about the fact that it was Kip Smith who has been pushing for all welfare recipients in Georgia to be drug tested. You know, I have a better idea. How about drug testing all legislators in Georgia, as a condition for them to keep their jobs? If it is fair to test welfare recipients, then it is only fair that those who made that law be subject to the same law.

Article is here.
 
Drinking isn't illegal. Not that the bigger issue isn't valid. He is still being paid with taxpayers money and breaking the law.

His positions are irrelevant for me though. Those who create the laws should be held to a very uncompromising standard when they break them.
 
Drinking isn't illegal. Not that the bigger issue isn't valid. He is still being paid with taxpayers money and breaking the law.

His positions are irrelevant for me though. Those who create the laws should be held to a very uncompromising standard when they break them.

Not to state the obvious, but drinking and driving is illegal.

So, it seems to me that if substance abuse disqualifies one from government aid, it should also disqualify one from government service. I'm sure the Kipper will be resigning shortly.
 
Not to state the obvious, but drinking and driving is illegal.

So, it seems to me that if substance abuse disqualifies one from government aid, it should also disqualify one from government service. I'm sure the Kipper will be resigning shortly.

In Arizona we just had a powerful state senator on trial for violation of ethics after he was arrested for being stopped in the middle of a state freeway late at night, pulling his girlfriend from the car and beating the hell out of her as traffic passed by. When arrested the GOP senator claimed legislative immunity because the legislature was in session. Meanwhile, his girlfriend was arrested and manned off to the station where she sat for something like 18 hours before they let her go, without charges.

Turns out the state senator was a real slime ball and had a prior occurrence with his ex-wife during their honeymoon in Hawaii. She fled the hotel, hocked her diamond to bu y a one way ticket and caught the next thing smoking to Florida. She got the marriage annulled.

Seems to be a common experience among these family values people.

After withering testimony from a cast of thousands who witness the incident, including an off duty police officer, the state senator resigned his seat before the testimony could go further.
 
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Not to state the obvious, but drinking and driving is illegal.

So, it seems to me that if substance abuse disqualifies one from government aid, it should also disqualify one from government service. I'm sure the Kipper will be resigning shortly.

Drug testing him would have come back negative. (as far as we know).
 
Drug testing him would have come back negative. (as far as we know).

Good thing they made him blow into a tube instead, right?
 
Just a guess...but with all the usual suspects coming out to hammer him...he is a republican...right?
 
Just a guess...but with all the usual suspects coming out to hammer him...he is a republican...right?

Yeah and he was born to wealth and privilege. He took the Georgia House seat vacated by his daddy who became the Director of Transportation. The system will make certain the 27 year old state representative skates as lightly as possible.
 
Yeah and he was born to wealth and privilege. He took the Georgia House seat vacated by his daddy who became the Director of Transportation. The system will make certain the 27 year old state representative skates as lightly as possible.
OMG!! Thats horrible. Liberals must ****ing HATE the Kennedy types...Disgusting vermin...
 
Just a guess...but with all the usual suspects coming out to hammer him...he is a republican...right?

He's a hypocrite ... so yeah.
 
What makes this newsworthy? How about the fact that it was Kip Smith who has been pushing for all welfare recipients in Georgia to be drug tested. You know, I have a better idea. How about drug testing all legislators in Georgia, as a condition for them to keep their jobs? If it is fair to test welfare recipients, then it is only fair that those who made that law be subject to the same law.

Article is here.


And being arrested for DUI has what exactly to do with drug use? What drugs do you suspect Smith of doing due to the DUI?

j-mac
 
He's a hypocrite ... so yeah.
Hes a republican...and you and the others are mindless hacks. Its a perfect marriage.Good thing no democrats ever get caught DUI...or taking bribes. Hypocrite? Dood...seriously...
 
Hes a republican...and you and the others are mindless hacks. Its a perfect marriage.Good thing no democrats ever get caught DUI...or taking bribes. Hypocrite? Dood...seriously...

You seem to miss the hypocrisy aspect of it. Of course members of both parties **** up all the time, but it's only hypocrisy when you preach about something and then get busted doing the very thing (or in this case a similar thing) you were preaching about. That's the Republican's calling card: the anti-gay crusader literally caught with his pants down (wide stance) ... or hounding the President over an affair, while he's cheating on his own wife....
 
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Not to state the obvious, but drinking and driving is illegal.

So, it seems to me that if substance abuse disqualifies one from government aid, it should also disqualify one from government service. I'm sure the Kipper will be resigning shortly.

So you would advocate hKip Smith's idea then that everyone who breaks the law stops receiving government money, whether its politicians, government employees, or welfare recipients. Is that correct?
 
You seem to miss the hypocrisy aspect of it. Of course members of both parties **** up all the time, but it's only hypocrisy when you preach about something and then get busted doing the very thing (or in this case a similar thing) you were preaching about. That's the Republican's calling card: the anti-gay crusader literally caught with his pants down (wide stance) ... or hounding the President over an affair, while he's cheating on his own wife....


Ok, do you have some specific evidence of Kip Smith "railing" about DUI?

j-mac
 
You seem to miss the hypocrisy aspect of it. Of course members of both parties **** up all the time, but it's only hypocrisy when you preach about something and then get busted doing the very thing (or in this case a similar thing) you were preaching about. That's the Republican's calling card: the anti-gay crusader literally caught with his pants down (wide stance) ... or hounding the President over an affair, while he's cheating on his own wife....

I don't know anything specifically about this guys views but there is an assumptiont that all Republicans are religious right zealots which is not true. And I would imagine all politicians have at one time or another preached against drinking and driving so that would make just about any politician and most people hypocites if they got a DUI.
 
You seem to miss the hypocrisy aspect of it. Of course members of both parties **** up all the time, but it's only hypocrisy when you preach about something and then get busted doing the very thing (or in this case a similar thing) you were preaching about. That's the Republican's calling card: the anti-gay crusader literally caught with his pants down (wide stance) ... or hounding the President over an affair, while he's cheating on his own wife....
Really? Is that what happened? He believes welfare recipients should be drug tested. He got popped on a dui for drinking while driving. He is neither a welfare recipient, nor unemployed...and last I checked...alcohol isnt illegal. No one is excusing his DUI...its just idiotic of you and others to use his very real mistake to claim he is a hypocrite about his stand on drug testing.

Face it...you idiots TROLL through the muck looking for anything you can...even the most obscure items for you to jump on. This guy is a state representative...in Georgia. You live...where? In California? To you, his 'crime' is irrelevant...all that matters is he is a republican. Oh...and that he believes welfare recipients shouldnt actually have some form of responsibility...well...he dares attack your sacred cows...shame!!!
 
What makes this newsworthy? How about the fact that it was Kip Smith who has been pushing for all welfare recipients in Georgia to be drug tested. You know, I have a better idea. How about drug testing all legislators in Georgia, as a condition for them to keep their jobs? If it is fair to test welfare recipients, then it is only fair that those who made that law be subject to the same law.

Article is here.

Cut her some slack.... she is dealing with the fact that the Republican presidential field is a mess. They are forced to go with Romney and, despite having a ton of money to spend, he is going down in flames in November. That's enough to make any Republican have two or three too many.
 
You seem to miss the hypocrisy aspect of it. Of course members of both parties **** up all the time, but it's only hypocrisy when you preach about something and then get busted doing the very thing (or in this case a similar thing) you were preaching about. That's the Republican's calling card: the anti-gay crusader literally caught with his pants down (wide stance) ... or hounding the President over an affair, while he's cheating on his own wife....

So this guy was preaching against DUI while the Democrats are for DUI? Or they have no opinion on DUI?

Would it be correct to say that we all agree that DUI is wrong and that whoever does it should suffer the consequences? That most people stray occasionally but we should have some sense of proportion about the sins committed and apply them equally?

We are all aware of the hypocrisies that exist among those with political interests and with that in mind I doubt that you would have mentioned this had he shared your politics. Hypocrisy for others but not for you? That seems to be the case here.
 
You seem to miss the hypocrisy aspect of it. Of course members of both parties **** up all the time, but it's only hypocrisy when you preach about something and then get busted doing the very thing (or in this case a similar thing) you were preaching about. That's the Republican's calling card: the anti-gay crusader literally caught with his pants down (wide stance) ... or hounding the President over an affair, while he's cheating on his own wife....
You know...its actually REALLY funny you keep bringing up Clinton and the whole 'pants down' thing. While you want to call it hypocrisy, you DO get the Clinton Lewinsky thing was NOT about having an affair...it was about lying under oath...while your hero was on trial...for having his sweatpants down around his ankles jerking off and then asking a state trooper to send a camapign staffer in to see him...and then standing up and letting the towel over his junk fall to the ground and asking the camapign staff worker, without the benefit of wooing, to blow him...right? Thats the guy you keep rushing to bring up...a guy who molested a child, admittedly stuck a cigar in her vag and smoked it, a guy accused of sexual harassment (hey...speaking of hypocrites...I thought liberal types were supposed to be championing the rights of women?). A guy accused of sexually assaulting a whyite house employee on the day of her husbands funeral...a guy who was accused of raping another campaign staffer and a guy that has had multitple extramarital affairs, all denied and chalked up to nothing more than a 'vast right wing conspiracy'.

Yeah...those lib heroes you keep bringing up...you ignoring their deeds...you are ****ing lilly white, arent you...:lamo
 
So this guy was preaching against DUI while the Democrats are for DUI? Or they have no opinion on DUI?

Would it be correct to say that we all agree that DUI is wrong and that whoever does it should suffer the consequences? That most people stray occasionally but we should have some sense of proportion about the sins committed and apply them equally?

We are all aware of the hypocrisies that exist among those with political interests and with that in mind I doubt that you would have mentioned this had he shared your politics. Hypocrisy for others but not for you? That seems to be the case here.

As I mentioned, it would not be newsworthy outside of his home state if he wasn't hypocritically pushing for drug testing of public assistance applicants while he, a state legislator, appears to have a substance abuse problem. Given that Democrats do not push for drug testing of public assistance applicants, this would not have been an issue if he was a Democrat.
 
You know...its actually REALLY funny you keep bringing up Clinton and the whole 'pants down' thing. While you want to call it hypocrisy, you DO get the Clinton Lewinsky thing was NOT about having an affair...it was about lying under oath...

And you know as well as I do that that is total bull****. Clinton would never have had to testify about Lewinsky if Gingrich and the other Republican attack dogs hadn't been going after him over the Lewinsky affair. Surely you recall Bob Barr calling for Clinton's resignation based solely on the affair? And perhaps you recall Barr's subsequent admission that HE had not only had an affair, but fathered a child with his mistress? And maybe you recall Bob Livingston going after Clinton ... and then resigning when HIS extra-marital affair(s) were disclosed? The holier than thou Repubicans! :lol:

while your hero was on trial...for having his sweatpants down around his ankles jerking off and then asking a state trooper to send a camapign staffer in to see him...and then standing up and letting the towel over his junk fall to the ground and asking the camapign staff worker, without the benefit of wooing, to blow him...right?

WTF are you smoking? Are you trying to describe the Jones lawsuit, that was dismissed? Are those the unproven allegations that you're trying to describe?

Thats the guy you keep rushing to bring up...a guy who molested a child, admittedly stuck a cigar in her vag and smoked it, a guy accused of sexual harassment (hey...speaking of hypocrites...I thought liberal types were supposed to be championing the rights of women?). A guy accused of sexually assaulting a whyite house employee on the day of her husbands funeral...a guy who was accused of raping another campaign staffer and a guy that has had multitple extramarital affairs, all denied and chalked up to nothing more than a 'vast right wing conspiracy'.

Molested a child? Do you think just making **** up improves your nonargument?

In any case, it's a weak attempt at diversion. I have been talking about Republican hypocrisy -- not defending Bill Clinton. Obviously you can't deny that Gingrich was ****ing around on his second wife (after ****ing around on his first wife) while he was attacking Clinton over his affair with Lewinsky.

Yeah...those lib heroes you keep bringing up...you ignoring their deeds...you are ****ing lilly white, arent you...:lamo

So basically you have no answer to the hypocrisy charge.
 
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