UPDATE: Here’s a local NBC stations story on the arrest – complete with police cruiser dash cam footage.
No, this is not what we’re brewing, but this future Democrat national leader should make you cringe – Republican and Democrat alike.
Republican leaders are calling for state Rep. Rob Briley to resign after his arrest for drunken driving over the weekend, a partisan move House Speaker Jimmy Naifeh called “pretty lowlife.”
A heavily intoxicated Briley, chairman of the House Judiciary Committee, fled the scene of an accident in DeKalb County on Saturday afternoon, then led police in Wilson County on a 100-mile-an-hour chase before finally stopping, according to police reports and court documents.
The Nashville Democrat was arrested at gunpoint after stopping his SUV in the middle of the road and is alleged to have kicked the window of a patrol car while in custody.
Read the rest of the article here, but as you do – ain’t it great that the Democrat House Speaker says that Republican’s calls for the offending state representative’s resignation “pretty lowlife”? What’s Naifeh want for this guy – 28 days on the wagon and then back behind the wheel. I guess Briley adheres to the theory of never leaving a man behind – especially if that man is what we used to call in a college a “wounded soldier” (it’s at the bottom of the page).
And a special shout out to the Speaker – Yes Mr. Briley may be suffering from alcoholism, and yes has been in treatment – but the man was doing 100 mph in an SUV – he could’ve killed numerous people. According the article – he’d been involved, and left the scene, of a previous accident. Those darn Republican low lifes – trying to to protect Tennesseans from drunk drivers who cause accidents, elude police, and allegedly attempt to kick out windows of police cruisers.
The Chair of the House Judiciary Committee arrested at gunpoint AFTER trying presumably elude police at 100 mph? Now that’s learning about the criminal justice system.