Blow by Blow: 10 Politicians Linked to Cocaine

[eridani]

http://readersupportednews.org/opinion2/277-75/20569-blow-by-blow-10-politicians-linked-to-cocaine

Freshman Congressman Trey Radel (R-Florida) became the first sitting U.S. representative to be convicted for a cocaine offense this week. The 37-year-old Radel pleaded guilty to misdemeanor possession charges, following from his attempt to score about 3.5 grams of coke for $250 from an undercover cop in late October. (Radel had recently voted with Republican colleagues to drug-test food stamp recipients - an irony not lost on minority leader Nancy Pelosi, who remarked, "It's like, what!?&quot Radel, blamed his "extremely irresponsible choice" on "the disease of alcoholism." The first-time offender was sentenced to one year of probation.

Radel is far from the first politician to be linked to the drug - and certainly not the highest ranking. Here, a few lines about nine other politicians and their (alleged) histories with cocaine.

[RKP5637]

1. Not surprised. Politicians come from the populace, they have many of the

same traits as the populace, good, bad and indifferent. Some try to place them on godlike pedestals, but they are really cut from the same cloth ... and for some problems will appear.

[Recursion]

2. Paper money in DC famously tests positive for cocaine...

... more frequently than any other city.

You think Congress would get more stuff done, though...

[RKP5637]

6. They're too busy snorting paper money!

[kelliekat44]

3. I only despise the ones who want to throw people in jail for what they do behind closed doors.

I remember well the Moral Majority members who openly criticized gays and the politicians who passed laws to hurt the LBGT communities only to be found hiding in the closet themselves.

[RKP5637]

5. Those, are absolutely the worst kind, those striking out to harm others to

strength their mask of hiding.

[RiffRandell]

7. Same here.

I can have empathy if one has an addiction problem as I truly wouldn't wish that on anyone, but not if you want to drug test people on welfare while you're doing blow or getting arrested for DUI.

Here in GA, at least 2 Republicans in Congress got DUIs (one twice) yet they were for mandatory drug testing for welfare recipients.

Guess what happens if you get convicted of a DUI here? Mandatory drug and alcohol tests for at least a year.

No sympathy from me.

[RiffRandell]

4. I didn't know he bought that much.

They still sell eight balls at the same price.

[hobbit709]

8. And if he hadn't been a white congresscritter what would he have been charged with?

I doubt very much if it would have been a misdemeanor if he had been black or brown.