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Arizona Republican gubernatorial candidate Christine Jones was arrested in 2004 for drunken driving, a pair of Arizona newspapers reported on Tuesday.
According to the Arizona Capitol Times and the Phoenix New Times, paperwork filed on April 14, 2004 in Phoenix Municipal Court showed that Jones had a blood alcohol level above the legal limit of .08 after she was pulled over. She was cited for impared driving and making an unsafe lane change.
Two years later, Jones, an attorney and former executive for the internet hosting company GoDaddy, was convicted on a pair of misdemeanors, according to the newspapers.
"There was no one in the car with me at the time, there was no accident and fortunately no one was hurt," Jones said in the statement to the publications on Tuesday. "I went to court and paid my dues like everyone else. It is a mistake that I very much regret and I am not proud of that night."
http://talkingpointsmemo.com/livewire/arizona-gov-candidate-jones-arrested-for-dui-in-2004
kestrel91316
(51,666 posts)She's a real prize, that one.
OffWithTheirHeads
(10,337 posts)But people are allowed to fuck up. I have.
pkdu
(3,977 posts)MADem
(135,425 posts)okaawhatever
(9,492 posts)it happened, pretty much without excuse. I'd love to see more politicians own up to what they've done wrong. She must not have much juice if the powers that be didn't hide the record.
bluestate10
(10,942 posts)in public is a fucking idiot.
MADem
(135,425 posts)jberryhill
(62,444 posts)She's a self-financed vanity candidate
Liberal_in_LA
(44,397 posts)Response to RandySF (Original post)
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gopiscrap
(24,130 posts)George Bush pulled all sorts of shit when he was young including going AWOL and his wife killed someone and he still elected.