Hague (R of King County Council, Wash.) apologizes for behavior during DUI arrest

[Newsjock]

Source: Seattle Times

King County Council member Jane Hague apologized Wednesday to her constituents, fellow council members and law-enforcement officers for her conduct the night she was arrested on suspicion of drunken driving.

... Hague, 61, has pleaded not guilty to driving under the influence. Breath tests administered the night of her arrest measured Hague's blood-alcohol content at 0.135 percent and 0.141 percent, above the state's 0.08 percent limit. A pretrial hearing is scheduled for Oct. 1 in the Redmond branch of King County District Court.

A Bellevue Republican and a political power on the Eastside since first being elected to the Metropolitan King County Council in 1993, Hague is up for re-election Nov. 6. The Democratic nominee is Richard Pope, a Bellevue attorney who has run unsuccessfully for various public offices 10 times.

... Hague's estimate of the amount of alcohol she drank June 2 is at odds with a Washington State Liquor Control Board chart showing that a 140-pound woman (slightly heavier than Hague, according to information in her court file) would, on average, have to consume four drinks in an hour to record a blood-alcohol level of 0.13 percent. But the Liquor Board notes that individual responses to alcohol consumption vary.

After the arrest, Hague did not go public. The incident was reported in the news media last month.

Read more: http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/eastsidenews/2003871065_hagueinterview06m.html

[bluestateguy]

1. Edited

Drunk driving kills people. She put lives at risk with her irresponsible recklessness.

[redqueen]

3. What's with calling her a slut?

:wtf:

[heliarc]

4. Unfortunately there's a lot of misogyny on DU.

My least favorite threads are the ones about pop stars. Somehow theres so much more sexually demeaning language directed at the women whose pratfalls line the tabloid pages than there is for the men. Too bad really.

[redqueen]

5. Makes me sick to see it here.

x(

[kimmylavin]

6. Why not just stick to her actual crime?

Yes, drunk driving kills people.

But nowhere did it say she was arrested for prostitution.
Really, no need for the "slut" part - just call her an irresponsible drunk.

[bluestateguy]

7. I will withdraw the slut comment

For no other reason than it is not accurate: she was indeed arrested for drunk driving, which is actually a crime far worse than prostitution, which I believe should be legal.

[kimmylavin]

9. Appreciate it.

(And I believe prostitution should be legal, as well...)

As for driving drunk - throw the book at her...
It always kills me when its the people who would have NO TROUBLE affording a cab home.

[heliarc]

11. Thank you

I respect that quite a bit.

[Bandit]

8. Republicans don't care about such things but if she were a lesbian now.....

She will easily get re-elected because Republicans really do not care about such hypocrisy..

[janetle]

2. Her attitude--same as Craig's

During the arrest her demeanor was so hypocritical---do you KNOW who I am, I don't do these sorts of things, how dare you arrest me, upstanding, rich republican citizen---etc.

[flamingyouth]

10. It's not just that "Hague did not go public."

The King County Prosecutor's Office (now led by Republican Dan Satterburg, who clearly doesn't have the decency of his late predecessor) didn't release the information either. Something stinks in that office, and hopefully the prosecutor will be gone this November. Either he's corrupt or incompetent.