Just into the tip line comes word that Jennifer Sudderth, fresh from her recent electoral win for Mayor of Hartwell, has something new to deal with: DUI charges. She faces a possible fine of $1,022 and is due to appear in Greenville, South Carolina Municipal Court on Thursday.
Even before she is sworn in, Sudderth has already begun to wield the mighty power of her elected office by trying to get out of being arrested. As The Hartwell Sun reports:
The officer asked Sudderth if she had been to any bars that evening and she answered that she had not.
“I then inquired about why she was wearing a ‘Crocs Food and Spirits’ wristband,” the officer wrote. “She looked at her wrist and stated, ‘Sir, I haven’t been to any bars.’”
When the officer attempted to place her under arrest, Sudderth stiffened her arm and pleaded with him to allow her father to pick her up, saying, “Sir, I just got elected.”
Meanwhile, The Independent Mail of Anderson, South Carolina is reporting Sudderth believes the entire incident to be a “misunderstanding” while The Greenville News of Greenville, South Carolina has quoted her as saying “I am innocent of these charges against me which will be proven in a court of law.”
“Proven”, mind you. And she would know! Because, of course, she “just got elected.”
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I know I’m close but just can’t recall…Harbin is the guy that worked for Perdue?
Harbin is a State Rep, the guy who worked for Perdue is another dude.
Hopefully she has Robert Highsmith in her rolodex
He got Benji off with a simple reckless driving charge, even though witnesses as well as the cop all commented at the scene how drunk he was.
That Highsmith guy must be goooood.
Who was the Perdue kid anyway? Didn’t he just get elected Mayor of Hartwell, too?
do you mean nick ayers?
Thanks drjay! That be the DUI Award Winner.
Mug shot says it all. “I f***ed up.”
Every Mayor in NE Georgia breaths a sigh of relief over this incident. No matter how bad they mess up the Mayor elect of Hartwell has outdone them.
Until tomorrow, when another corrupt Georgia politician will figure out how to get this story out of the headlines and into the archives.
I bet there is a police cruiser video of the entire incident available to the first news outlet that files an open records request.
Yet another baseless attack on Georgia by South Carolina.
I guess this takes her off the Sarah Palin carer trejectory.
Why do so many psychologically defective people enter politics?
Why do voters vote so many pychologically defective people into office?
Doug, don’t you remember that “mean spirited” comment made last week about Georgia’s voters being stupid and how Nathan Deal will represent us admirably?
Well, perhaps that is one interpretation, but I think the real reason is that we have a lazy and uneducated press corps who do little more than transcribe press releases.
I gotta agree with you there…the press…sigh
But if they were to produce meaningful investigative reporting, people would complain that they were “too lib’ral” or “too conservative” depending on whose Ox got gored.
But for the most part they are incapable of writing past bias, so those complaints are, a good part of the time, accurate. If they were better “journalists”, who did their homework, and put a check on their own feelings in order to write impartially such accusation would have less sticking power.
Everyone has bias. Everyone has an opinion. What separates professionals from hacks is the ability to set those aside to look at something fairly and report fact and leave the opinion for the editorial pages.
Again, even if they do their homework, if you go after one politician or another, they’re going to claim bias even if none really existed. It’s how the game is played and the suckers are those who believe the bias charge, since it’s nearly impossible to go over the same investigative ground as every reporter out there.
Ok, that last sentence made less sense than I wanted.
What I’m saying is that the suckers are those who believe — for example — that Sarah Palin was never at fault for anything except the good things that happened to her and that all the negative stuff were people out to get her, biased journalists, and so on, instead of self-inflicted wounds.
I think Sarah Palin is an idiot, but she was definitely treated poorly by the press out of bias. I disliked GW Bush a great deal, but I found myself defending him because the only attacks against him were partisan and hypocritical nonsense.
Doug,
I can’t answer the first question. The second question is very easy.
Voters can only vote for the psychos who run for office.
Instead of the Dating Game where we get three choices, politics only offers variations of the same personality defect.
True.
I guess in the end it is the fault of the good people of the world who sit back for “someone else” to step up. That someone else is more often than not a self aggrandizing narcissist who has no place in leadership.
Until people run for office out of a duty to their country, family, god, friends or neighbors, we will be stuck with people who WANT to be politicians.
How could you not be a narcissist when you have to keep saying over and over “Vote for me!” ?
This coming election, you might do well to say “don’t vote for me”
“Don’t Vote For Mad Dog as a Write In Candidate”
ok
At least she wasn’t nekkid in the woods.
Maybe she was on her way and got stopped before she had a chance.
Who is running for Lee Hawkins’ Senate seat?
Probably some guy who was running nekkid in the woods.
Butch Miller
(o my virgin eyes)
Hartwell’s mayor-elect Jennifer Sudderth says she was not drunk last Saturday when a Greenville Police officer pulled her over and ultimately arrested her for DUI.
Sudderth told the Hartwell Sun newspaper she was text messaging early Saturday morning while driving and that’s why she was weaving all over the road……….
http://www.921wlhr.com/2009_11_01_archive-news.html#3605947775257227015
someone check http://www.textsfromlastnight.com and see if there’s anything from the 706 area code.
So is this where you send my TM’s Ic?
I think I would have more respect for her if she was drunk. At least when someone is drunk their normal functions are impared and there judgement might be bad. However, if she was texting while driving to the point of weaving all over the road, she is an idiot who was a normal state of bad judgement and willfully impairs her ability to drive.
She needs to have her license revoked.
People voted for this?
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