Giuliani Buddy On Wrong Side of Law. Again.
By Nicole Belle Sunday Nov 11, 2007 2:02pm
Former Rep. John Sweeney was charged with aggravated DWI when he was pulled over by State Police early this morning on the Northway with a 23-year-old woman in his car, police told the Daily News.[..]
State Police had no comment when asked the identity of the passenger in Sweeney's 2004 BMW sedan. Sweeney was also ticketed for driving erratically. A law enforcement source said Sweeney's car had been swerving and the woman was seated partially on his lap when Trooper Phillip Dickson first spotted him.
Sweeney's blood alcohol content registered at .18 (fixed) percent when he was checked at the Clifton Park station, according to Lt. Scott Coburn. He was ordered to appear in Clifon Park Town Court Wednesday night at 7 p.m.
Sweeney got his political start as executive director of the state GOP, where he helped Rudy Giuliani win his first mayoral campaign in 1993 and also worked on George Pataki's successful bid to oust former Gov. Mario Cuomo in 1994. He served as Pataki's first Labor Commissioner and ran for Congress in 1998 to succeed retiring Rep. Gerald Solomon. Sweeney earned the nickname "Congressman Kick-Ass" from President Bush for his role in the 2000 Flordia recount protests.
The ex-congressman has a history of alcohol-related incidents, and he and his estranged wife have indicated alcohol was a factor in the domestic incident which led to an embarassing police report that was leaked to the Daily News, the Albany Times Union and Newsday shortly before last year's congressional election. Sweeney lost that race to Democrat Kirsten Gillibrand.
During the campaign, Sweeney was severely embarrasased when photos of him at a Union College frat party were publicized. In 2001, he drove his Jeep into a telephone pole in the Adirondacks, shutting off electricity to the nearby Willard Mt. resort and stranding skiers on a chair lift.
Oops. Sweeney's campaign was embarrassed further with news that he physically abused his wife and that both he and his son had incidents with alcohol and violence. Duncan has more...
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Congressman kick ass? Perhaps Lick ass---or with the DUI, ass Kicked? What a loser.
C'mon, give the guy a little space. With a name like Sweeney, you get a drunken souse.
With a name like Giuliani, you get a goombah louse.
Former Congressman Kick-Ass Sweeney slogan: Don't drink and lap dance.
Well at least he wasn't soliciting in a mens room
say it ain't so! Not a drunken fool who beats his wife, tied to Saint Nineoneone!
Former Rep. John Sweeney was charged with aggravated DWI when he was pulled over by State Police early this morning on the Northway with a 23-year-old woman in his car, police told the Daily News.
I'll just bet the 23 year old (if it wasn't his daughter) had a ginormous rack.
Waitaminute! He had a girl in his lap?! Are you guys sure he's a republican?
This brings to mind something my grandmother used to tell me. She would say, "You will be known by the company you keep." Rudy's grandmother should have given him that same advice.
Because of people like congressman kick-ass, Katherine Harris and the Supreme Court we got president dumb-ass
:lol: at Fade's comment (7)
This guy definitely has some personal problems. Get him the f**k off the road!
Fade @ 7:
...Who's yer Daddy?
The only way to stop this incessant, day-after-day flood of arrests, scandals, and miscellaneous misdemeanors and felonies of Giuliani associates, is to arrest and imprison everyone who is, or who has ever been, a Giulianist, and let the Warden and his guards sort them out.
Should they find a few non-criminals among them, they could be released (under very strict parole restrictions, including 'no association with known criminals'). This would reduce Rudy's staff to zero, which seems about right.
miss_kitty @ 6:
His daughter???? That's giving WAY too much benefit of the doubt. The cops said she was sitting on his lap for jeebus' sake.
My guess is that the young lady was a professional.
Preacher Boob @ 12:
It would also guarantee that none of them could work for the republic party at least in this lifetime.
So, let me get this straight...it was not a young boy on his lap???? Where was his wet suit?
But see all this stuff about Rudy's shady friends and background are nothing compared to someone on Hillary's staff supposedly planting a question with someone in the audience where she was speaking. I mean that's really a crime and it has all the talking cable news readers all a twitter. Jeez
Shocked! Shocked I Tell ya'.
"Sweeney's attorney, E. Stewart Jones, confirmed the arrest on Sunday. He denied that his client had a drinking problem..."
http://timesunion.com/AspStories/story.asp?storyID=638125&category=&BCCo...
That's right. Put the glass to the lips, tilt slightly and swallow. No problem.
Gotta love those frat party photos. Great examples of how a douchebag deals with his mid-life crises.
pissed off patricia @ 16:
But they're relatively mute about the FEMA presser where all of the "correspondents" were high rankin' FEMA officials.
Fair & balanced my ass.
I can't believe it - a straight Republican.
Pat Buchanan was on Morning Joe this morning talking about the way the Nixon people used to sprinkle questions around to reporters. He said even now the press will have questions suggested to them if they want to get good answers from the pres.
Yet this story about Hillary has made every talking head show today at least once an hour.
The fake FEMA presser got some air time talk, but nothing like this Hillary non-news story is getting.
If Rudy should win the presidency (shutter) I don't even want to think what would happen to our country. If you liked the bush jr seven years, you would totally love four years of Rudy. Almost all his advisers are old neocons and he needs them as much as they need him.
This is my neck of teh woods and I remember some flap about him attempting to smear Gillibrand with a whisper campaign involving something about drunk driving. Completely backfired when they brought up the skiers stuck in the cold on the lift and the wife-beating incident. I guess that is the sancitity of marriage, get drunk and beat her ass - forget Love, Honor, and CHERISH....
Ah, the party claiming to have the moral values.
Rusty Shackleford @ 20:
FUNNY!!!!!!!
I got your family values, "right here".
Let me get this straight. Someone's friend went drinking and driving with a young little hottie on his lap... Anyone who would have friends who drink and pick up hot chicks obviously isn't suited for the presidency... There are plenty of reasons to hate Guiliani, but has to be one of the stupidest reasons ever.
At least he was with a woman. I'm waiting for one of the repugs to get busted with a sheep.
Sweeney’s blood alcohol content registered at .18 (fixed) percent when he was checked at the Clifton Park station, according to Lt. Scott Coburn.
.18 percent alcohol? Jeez, that's the same alcohol content as a dry erase marker!
jimbo92107 @ 27:
But when was the last time you saw a dry erase marker driving a car with a sharpie pen in its lap?
Time to break out them thar plungers
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j3NBVpGQAsI
Not for nuthin', but isnt this the kind of politically unrelated story that most of you would condemn media attention on for a liberal candidate?
Kelly Logan @ 30:
Yes, but only if the MSM were overplaying the issue instead of underplaying.
We heard more about Hillary's cleavage.
23 yr old GIRL? GIRL?
Do all repubs have to get .18 drunk in order to do a GIRL?
Those old frat party pictures showed a middle aged dude who was very comfortable with college boys.
Kelly Logan @ 30:
I completely agree.
if rudy would win and become potus, god forbid, would he have a more corrupt administration than the current title holders, bush co.?
mondovideo @ 15:
Maybe it should be asked , "Where was his suit wet?"
Fat, drunk and stupid is no way to go through life, son.
"Do all repubs have to get .18 drunk in order to do a GIRL?"
bert wins.
Mike Allen of Politico, Chris Matthews and Chuck Todd will never see a flaw in their mob connected, serial groom
Rudy deserves pretty much all of the bad press he has coming his way. However, this report is no more than a guilty-by-association object. I couldn't care less if he and Rudy are pals. On the other hand, if Rudy had recommended him for a spokesperson position on alcohol abuse, then this story might matter.
Maybe Rudy's associates were all stand-up guys till they started hanging around with Rudy.
Well, howdy neighbor. That thuggish, little prick Sweeney was my congressman, too. For what he helped do to the country in Florida in 2000, I hope he spends the rest of his life in a bottle.
He's just a candidate you'd like to have a beer with. Where have I heard that before?
The Sea Hawk @ 39:
But a pattern of such people as trusted advisors does call Rudy's judgement of character and willingness to overlook illegalities for cronies, does it not?
Of course, people that are still excited about him have already apparently disarmed that dangerous logic circuit in their brains... I'm sure this argument will pass right by them.
ckerst @ 26:
You wouldn't be thinking about Orin Hatch, would you? LOL
My neck of the woods as well. I'll bet he was at the greatest vegetarian italian restaurant and wine bar in the Capital district, which is in Clifton Park. I've seen him there quite a few times as I'm a sporadic, but regular patron.
LOL about the young girl. As for the DWI, a .18 SHOULD be too much for even local star defender of the guilty E. Stewart Jones to make disappear, as well as the priors.
Interesting note- Back when he was in office, he used to have a very military young man chauffeuring him around. Unlike congressional health insurance, I guess it wasn't a lifetime perk.
On the other hand, it's kind of amazing that Sweeney could drive at all with that much hooch in his skull. Could you do it, physically? I don't think I could even get the key in, much less the 23-year old "girl."
Maybe it was his daughter...;-)
Oops, you're right, that should be woman, not girl. How un-PC of me.
As for the BAC, it's probably not that hard to drive in that condition- just hard to drive well.
$5 to the first person to dig out the girls name. $10 if you find her MySpace. :P
What's a RepubliCON and associate of Looney Judiani doing with a woman sitting on his lap.? Perhaps it was a transexual male, but a female, no, I just can't believe it.
#7 Fade, very funny LOL.
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