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Mormon GOP Senator Who Claims to Abstain from Alcohol Arrested for DUI
Idaho Sen. Michael Crapo is a strict social and fiscal conservative (whatever that means these days: Tax the poor, give corporations taxpayer money, and scream about loose women using contraception combined with bizarre beliefs about the female body). He’s a Mormon who has told the press that he doesn’t drink. And he was arrested for a DUI in Virginia early Sunday morning.
The Senator ran a red light, prompting police to pull him over, whereupon he failed sobriety tests. His blood alcohol level was .11. (Virginia has strict DUI laws.) After being arrested, Crapo was released on a $1,000 bail. His license will probably be suspended for 7 days as per the law in Virginia.
Senator Crapo said in a statement to CBS News, “I am deeply sorry for the actions that resulted in this circumstance. I made a mistake for which I apologize to my family, my Idaho constituents and any others who have put their trust in me. I accept total responsibility and will deal with whatever penalty comes my way in this matter. I will also undertake measures to ensure that this circumstance is never repeated.”
Sure, you might be concerned that the Senator has abandoned his principles and values by drinking anything let alone being arrested for a DUI, but fear not. Crapo has a 0% rating from the HRC on gay rights, because while he’s obviously a bit confused about just how much booze one can drink before they’re too drunk to drive, he’s super clear that sexual orientation shouldn’t be protected in any way by the government. No rights for the gays!
Social conservatives prefer to save up all of the rights for the “righteous”.
Crapo has also been really clear that we need to spend our money going after young girls who cross state lines to violate his religious beliefs by seeking an abortion. Yes, drinking and driving might kill other already-borns, but abortion, while legal, is not okay in Crapo’s eyes. He voted yes to increase funding for the “vigorous enforcement of a prohibition against taking minors across State lines in circumvention of laws requiring the involvement of parents in abortion decisions consistent with the Child Custody Protection Act.”
He also said no to stem cells and no for $100M to reduce teen pregnancy by education & contraceptives. Don’t you bad girls go doing the dirty and thinking you can have access to birth control or abortions, or Crapo’s gonna get ya’ for the family values.
Also, all you ladies fighting for our freedom, listen up! Even if you get raped on base, it’s a NO to you for getting an abortion, even the privately funded kind. You might be fighting for our freedom, but Crapo is restricting yours. Be grateful he’s not driving you anywhere.
He also voted no on reinstating $1.15 billion funding for Clinton’s COPS Program (ironically now being used by conservatives to justify Wayne LaPieere’s crazy ranting). Who needs more police or police engagement in our communities? Certainly not Crapo.
Lastly, and you probably guessed this one, due to his strict social values, Crapo voted YES on prohibiting lawsuits against gun manufacturers. I mean, what kind of world would this be if the parents of dead children could sue gun manufacturers? He also voted no on background checks at gun shows. In fact, he has earned himself an A+ from the NRA.
What we have here is a drearily predictable record of alleged “pro-life” values. Pro guns, no regulations for guns or their manufacturers but he must regulate women’s medical decisions even if they are serving our country because he can’t trust them to follow his excellent example on their own. Thankfully he didn’t hurt anyone while drinking and driving; apparently he does all of the hurting at his day job.
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19 Responses to Mormon GOP Senator Who Claims to Abstain from Alcohol Arrested for DUI
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Anne
Dec. 24th, 2012 at 8:39 am
He’s another RWNJ professing a moral superiority he doesn’t possess. His record, as stated above, stinks to high heaven especially because of his opposition to measures that would greatly reduce the abortions he claims to abhor. For someone concerned with the sanctity of life, he put himself and others at risk of injury or death when he got behind the wheel in an inebriated condition.
Dave Sadler
Dec. 24th, 2012 at 9:09 am
Hypocrisy of the Mormon elite is nothing new.
Joseph Smith Jr. publicly denied practising polygamy. At the time he had anywhere between 30 and 44 wives.
The Mormon Deseret News yesterday published an article using crack science to link porn use to men who support marriage equality. Utah has the highest per capita of porn subscriptions in the whole of the USA. LOL
The actions of this man say as much about those who continue to elect someone with such a vile record against human and civil rights.
djchefron
Dec. 24th, 2012 at 9:23 am
Hey don’t get down on him.Maybe like the cult founder wanted to expand his conscious to find his god.Follow the link to read what I am saying.
Mormon Visions and the Gift of the Holy Ghost
www.i4m.com/think/history...
Reynardine
Dec. 24th, 2012 at 9:52 am
That was a real interesting link, Brother Chefron. Pass the poppyseed rolls.
Shiva (Moderator)
Dec. 24th, 2012 at 10:44 am
True that. In my time I took the Peyote and Mescaline express more than several times and I never once saw Joseph Smith.
Reynardine
Dec. 24th, 2012 at 11:08 am
That stuff could mess you up, but pot is a vegetable. It’s good for you.
Sugapea
Dec. 24th, 2012 at 11:42 pm
Tis The Season!
Santa and the ‘Shrooms’:
inhabitat.com/santa-and-t...
Shiva (Moderator)
Dec. 24th, 2012 at 11:55 pm
I posted that story on facebook, only it was worded slightly differently. It discussed why we wrap our presents in red and white as well as other colors and put them under the tree., They mimic the mushrooms. It all makes sense
It goes along with this story
www.i4m.com/think/history...
SinghX
Dec. 24th, 2012 at 11:08 am
www.bookofmormonbookoflie...
The book, “Book of Mormons, Book of Lies” by Sheets and Meridith is of great interest to those who seek to hunt down the truth behind the Smith’s mythical “King Mormon”
The exmormons.com folks are also on the trail…they are coming to the same conclusion and research as both Sheets & Meridith as well as the article linked above.
They only difference is that the ex-mormons believe that the “Brothers’ named in the link who went into the forest to have “visions” with Smith Sr and Jr., were in collusion and helped write the B of M.
Whereas Sheets & Meridith hypothesizes that the Smiths kept it in the family. Their evidence suggest that the Smith’s would not hire a map-maker to draw the map reconstructing the of the voyage of the Nephites crossing the ocean to America. They couldn’t take a risk on anyone knowing, so they just glossed over the details.
Kevin M. Brown
Dec. 24th, 2012 at 9:29 am
Mormonism is scary!!! Worse than Scientology!
Robby Ego
Dec. 24th, 2012 at 9:41 am
…and he’ll be arrested next year for soliciting a minor. Watch for it.
Reynardine
Dec. 24th, 2012 at 9:56 am
Or even soliciting a miner.
montag
Dec. 24th, 2012 at 12:21 pm
The Mormon prohibitions against drinking, gambling, pornography and other popular pastimes are, as Hamlet said, “a custom
More honour’d in the breach than the observance”
D. Lowrey
Dec. 24th, 2012 at 12:51 pm
Living here in Idaho and not being a mormon…I was totally amazed it wasn’t reported him using the same line every other Idaho politician getting pulled over used…”Don’t you know who I am”?
Just another rite of passage for every Bend Over Party politician. He will serve no time…be reelected and do the same thing several more times. Here’s a editorial written in the “newspaper” where I live: magicvalley.com/news/opin...
william john
Dec. 24th, 2012 at 3:13 pm
may be he’s an alcoholic!
RobMajor
Dec. 24th, 2012 at 11:31 pm
Senator Crapo (I assume the “o” is silent?) is now experiencing, in real life, what the Book of Mormon (by which I mean the brilliant play by Trey Parker and Matt Stone now playing on Broadway, not the ridiculous tome found in hotel room desk drawers which Mark Twain called “chloroform in print”) refers to as a “spooky-Mormon-hell-dream.” With a voting record like his, the only surprise is that Ted Haggard’s gay lover/drug dealer wasn’t in the car with him when he got pulled over.
This is a story worth following. I want to hear about the “community service” work he has to perform as part of his sentencing. Maybe he’ll have to work in an actual homeless shelter, and meet, face to face, the people he screws day in and day out in his “day job.”
As everyone know, Mormons, like Southern Baptists, don’t drink….. in front of each other, that is. The photo above does not show the face of a man who doesn’t drink. In fact, he looks like a guy who drinks A LOT. And no wonder. Distilled spirits are excellent for silencing the conscience, and keeping one from distinguishing the true from the false.
Shiva (Moderator)
Dec. 24th, 2012 at 11:56 pm
Thats why we have so much moonshine down here in southern baptist country. They must give it away
SinghX
Dec. 25th, 2012 at 7:05 am
As you know, tent Revivalist history in America included lots of drinking, hence the eventual “Blue laws” for the intemperate.
It seems that the tent revival preacher/show would roll into town and, the booze would magically appear an hour or two before the main event; everybody needed to be “warmed up” for the show…even the local natives were “invited”.
Apparently, preachers needed to make enough donations to move on to the next locale and probably couldn’t do it without the help of a little home-made “lightening”.
(the first revivalist shows in the late 1700′s were different. I’m betting, since they were held in open fields, forest clearings that mushrooms were involved. PBS did a documentary on this phenomena a couple years ago…)
D. W. Skinner
Dec. 25th, 2012 at 3:16 pm
Obviously pastored under the Mitt Romney school of truth-telling.