Senior Clinton Advisor Blumenthal Arrested 4 DUI On 1/7/08 Not Reorted Til The !2th?

[DaLittle Kitty]

WHY Was This Incident With held from the public? More Evidence of a Corrupt Media IMHO. :)

http://www.nashuatelegraph.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20080112/NEWS01/909595977/-1/news
Local/Regional
Published: Saturday, January 12, 2008
Clinton adviser arrested in Nashua
By STEPHANIE HOOPER Telegraph Staff
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NASHUA – A top Clinton adviser faces charges of aggravated driving while intoxicated after city police caught him speeding through Greeley Park a day before the state primary.

Sidney Blumenthal, longtime friend and senior adviser to presidential candidate Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton, D-N.Y. was allegedly driving a rented car north on Concord Street at a speed of 70 mph when Nashua Police Sgt. Mike Masella decided to stop it at about 12:30 a.m. Monday.

"That's kinda fast," Masella said, adding that the speed limit was 30 mph.

Masella said he activated the blue lights on his police cruiser at which point Blumenthal stopped his vehicle at the entrance to the Henri Burque Highway.

Although he was driving the opposite direction, Blumenthal, 59, told Masella he had just left Manchester and was trying to get to his hotel.

"I said 'You're coming from a different area,' and he admitted he was lost," Masella said.

Several factors, such as the smell of alcohol led him to suspect Blumenthal may be intoxicated, Masella said, and he instructed arriving officer Christopher Ditullio to give Blumenthal a field sobriety test.

Blumenthal was arrested after completing the test and taken to the police department where he refused to take a breath test and was booked on a charge of aggravated driving while intoxicated, Masella said.

The charge is aggravated due to the speed Blumenthal's vehicle was traveling before it was stopped, he said.

Blumenthal was jailed at the department for about four hours before he was bailed later that morning, Masella said.

Because he refused the breath test, Blumenthal, who carries a Washington, D.C., driver's license, may not drive a vehicle in New Hampshire pending the outcome of his court case, Masella said.
Stephanie Hooper can be reached at 594-6413 or [e-mail].

[goldcanyonaz]

1. I wont be voting for him now.

[HughMoran]

2. Good, he refused the breathalyzer

So did I. I filed a case in the Superior court based on how the officers treated me after my arrest. They pleaded with me to drop the case and they would drop the charges. I accepted ;)

[Atman]

3. In all fairness, I'm not voting for Blumenthal anyway.

Is your point that if the news had been released in a timely manner it could have swayed the outcome? Then in a way I'm glad it wasn't (and I am not a Clinton supporter), because this is not an incident that will have any bearing on how Clinton would run the country. We have to stop focusing on this trivial, off-topic bullshit. It is bad, unfortunate, whatever, that Blumenthal got arrested for a DUI, and he will personally pay a heavy price for it (unless he has a good lawyer, which he probably does), but it has no bearing on being president.

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[LostinVA]

4. Yes -- but how does this actually have anything to do with Hillary?

She's not responsible for the stupid, dangerous choice her advisor made.