Missouri Gov. Jay Nixon announced proposed legislation Wednesday that would change the way Missouri deals with DWI cases and keep repeat drunk-drivers off the road.
Most of the proposals deal with increased penalties and methods to track DWI records. They also include outlawing the one thing every lawyer will tell you to do if you're pulled over on the way home from a bender. Or so we've heard. Knock on wood.
Before announcing his plan, Nixon convened a DWI summit in November seeking input from police chiefs, sheriffs, prosecutors, judges, court clerks and victim advocates. While you read Nixon's proposed changes, remember that a .08 blood-alcohol level is considered intoxicated under Missouri law, and the people who advised him make a living putting citizens in prison.
Nixon's rules would:
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You go Governor!! It's time for drunk drivers to get out of their tickets by refusing to blow. Abe, losing a driver's license doesn't keep drunks from driving!
Don't you already get in trouble for refusing a blood alcohol test? I thought you automatically lost your licence for year if you refused a test, I'm guessing this asshole just wants stiffer penalties for it?
I'll tell you what ought to be a crime; asshole politicians trying to neuter the 5th Amendment to publicize their rigorous "hard-liner" stance to the electorate.
Nixon knows full well that even were the Missouri legislature stupid enough to craft and then pass such an inanity, it would never stand up to a SCOTUS review. The mad ought to be fired for incompetency and deliberately wasting government resources.
'ffing jackass...
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