GOP accused of flip-flop on DUI issue

[Judi Lynn]

October 12, 2006

GOP accused of flip-flop on DUI issue

By Scott Finn
Staff writer

State Democrats are accusing Republicans of flip-flopping on two drunken driving bills that have become a central issue in the November election.

Republicans have criticized Democratic legislators who voted for the bills, which required the state to hold a hearing before taking away an alleged drunk driver’s license, including someone who pled “no contest” in court instead of innocent or guilty.

But only one Republican delegate — Ron Walters of Kanawha County — actually voted against the drunken driving change all three times it came before him.

- advertisement -“They voted for it before they voted against it,” said Democratic strategist Mike Plante, echoing the infamous quote from former Democratic presidential candidate Sen. John Kerry, D-Mass.
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http://wvgazette.com/section/News/2006101125

[LynnTheDem]

1. What do bush & cheney -DUI convicts- say about the DUI bills?

Finally, a bill on something bush & cheney have personal knowledge & experience of.

[denverbill]

2. That wasn't a quote from Kerry. That was a quote from Republicans

about Kerry.