When they bust you doing my recommended 50mph over the limit, you really ought to be a man and cop to it. Not so for those in power, apparently:
A motorcade driving Gov. Gray Davis to Los Angeles was clocked going 94 mph by a Highway Patrol officer who pursued the cars for five miles until members of the governor's security detail identified themselves, sources said Friday.
The chase occurred last Saturday on a two-lane portion of Highway 46 in San Luis Obispo County known as ``Blood Alley'' because at least 29 people have died from traffic accidents there since 1998. Movie actor James Dean was killed on the same stretch in 1955 when his race car crashed.
A Davis representative refused to comment [emphasis added] on the incident, referring questions to California Highway Patrol Commissioner D.O. ``Spike'' Helmick.
It's that last line that really chafes me. I had misgivings about California's recall election -- let the voters suffer their own choices, and maybe they'll choose better next time -- but now I say: Let the bastard hang.
Of the 50 state governors, I would address only one as "His Incompetency.":)
Build a bridge out of 'im!
"Do you know who I am?"
Yeah, Gray, we know.
Please step away from the vehicle.
My personal favorite was when he once stated that "the legislature's job was to implement his vision."
He's a man who served his country in uniform...without a single enduring friendship to show for it. Is there anything else that needs to be said about his character?
Pfft. I once was clocked going 110mph in a 55mph zone -- 55 miles per hour over the speed limit.
(Before anyone accuses me of putting lives at risk, this happened on a damn near empty highway, at 6am on a Sunday morning.)
Went to court, and the officer lowered it to 85 in a 55. Had to drive carefully through the duration of my suspension.
Time to add reckless driving and speeding to the list of corruption and incompetence. Is there anything illegal that Gray Davis *won't* have done by the time his sorry butt is kicked out of office?
Guess Arnold must have put a pretty good scare into him...
If it had been "Arnold" driving like that, the left-wing press would have been all over it and we would have seen it on all the major networks.
That's not the same Spike that Attorney General Lockyer wanted to put Ken Lay in a cell with, is it?
"let the voters suffer their own choices, and maybe they'll choose better next time"
Nice attitude. You bad, bad voters. Now you get punished. WTF do you think recalls are for if not to be used when the clown in office is, well, such a clown??? He's just governor, not God.
POWER TO THE PEOPLE, NOT SACRAMENTO!
I'm only sorry that he wasn't driving to Tijuana, and that he wasn't driving even faster.
