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Sweeney's License Suspended For Refusal To Take Sobriety Test
Zachary Roth | October 16, 2009, 4:17PM
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John Sweeney may have to take the bus for the next year and a half.
The former New York GOP congressman has had his driver's license suspended for refusing to take a sobriety test when police pulled him over for speeding in April and smelled alcohol on his breath.
Sweeney still faces a DWI trial for that incident. The boozy former lawmaker and Jack Abramoff crony already has one DWI conviction from 2007.
Sweeney lost his seat in Congress in 2006, amid charges that his wife had the previous year called 9-1-1 to report that Sweeney was "knocking her around the house."
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mepmep09
October 16, 2009 4:22 PM
I do believe you have a photo of the wrong Mr. Sweeney. The former Congressdude (and total sleazebag) actually has hair. See the pic in this Wonkette post, for example.
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mepmep09
October 16, 2009 10:20 PM in reply to mepmep09
Ah, yes, there's the correct mug for the scumbag in question. And here's a link to some reporting on Sweeney's key role in the Brooks Brother riot, as Mrs. Panstreppon notes below.
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Mrs Panstreppon
October 16, 2009 4:25 PM
Yup, you've mixed up your John Sweeneys, Zack.
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Mrs Panstreppon
October 16, 2009 4:50 PM
Let's not forget that John Sweeney, or Congressman Kickass as Bush called him, was the instigator of the infamous Brooks Brother riot.
If Sweeney ever goes the 12-step route, he will have to make amends to every citizen in the US for his role in destroying the country.
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