This is how Republican family values play out, apparently: in your car full of kids, drunk, with a pistol strapped to your hip. That’s how the police found Georgia state Rep. Tom Taylor last week, reports The Atlanta-Journal Constitution.
Taylor, 54, a Dunwoody Republican, had a blood-alcohol content of .225, nearly three times the legal limit of .08, according to a Clayton Police Department incident report obtained by The Atlanta Journal-Constitution.
Taylor, Chairman of MARTOC, “a statutory committee with oversight of the MARTA budget” – the Metropolitan Atlanta Rapid Transit Authority (there’s irony for you) – told the AJC,
“I profoundly regret this serious mistake. There’s no one to blame but me, and I greatly appreciate the professionalism of the officers involved. This was my first run-in with the law in my life, and it will also be my last.â€
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Well, that’s all right then, isn’t it? No harm, no foul. I mean, he was only doing 72 mph in a 45 mph zone while having a blood-alcohol content of three times the legal limit. Again, with a car full of kids and a pistol strapped to his hip. What could go wrong?
This is Red State America in 2016, folks: a blood-shot-eyed politician who smells like booze, denying he had anything to drink while having an empty water bottle smelling of booze in his car and a pistol strapped to his hip. And this guy is telling y’all how to live YOUR lives. And not only telling you, but in a position to make laws FORCING you.
It’s not pretty, but it’s what we have to work with until Americans wake up and end the Republican scourge at state level, and with rampant Republican voter suppression and redistricting, this won’t be easily done.
Hrafnkell Haraldsson, a social liberal with leanings toward centrist politics has degrees in history and philosophy. His interests include, besides history and philosophy, human rights issues, freedom of choice, religion, and the precarious dichotomy of freedom of speech and intolerance. He brings a slightly different perspective to his writing, being that he is neither a follower of an Abrahamic faith nor an atheist but a polytheist, a modern-day Heathen who follows the customs and traditions of his Norse ancestors. He maintains his own blog, A Heathen’s Day, which deals with Heathen and Pagan matters, and Mos Maiorum Foundation www.mosmaiorum.org, dedicated to ethnic religion. He has also contributed to NewsJunkiePost, GodsOwnParty and Pagan+Politics.
