CNN: Randy Bryce has history of arrests, including DUI

[socaldem]

Could a Democrat get away with this in a safe D district or not? Would my Congressman Alan Lowenthal be re-elected if he gets arrested for a DUI, or would John Briscoe flip CA-47 for one term?

I did a double take. Lowenthal did what? Is this how fake news whisper campaigns start?

Hypotheticals of this sort probably shouldn’t name specific individuals.

[Progressive Pessimist]

Given that President Grab 'em by the Pussy won, Rapin' Roy came within 2% of winning a US Senate race, and Jim Jordan is still hanging onto his House seat despite accusations of being Ohio's Joe Paterno, a couple of DUIs and being a little behind on child support should be petty offenses for Bryce and the WI-01 electorate at large.

He's missing the crucial ingredient: being a Republican.

[mcmikk]

Given that President Grab 'em by the Pussy won, Rapin' Roy came within 2% of winning a US Senate race, and Jim Jordan is still hanging onto his House seat despite accusations of being Ohio's Joe Paterno, a couple of DUIs and being a little behind on child support should be petty offenses for Bryce and the WI-01 electorate at large.

He's missing the crucial ingredient: being a Republican.

[Greedo punched first]

Could a Democrat get away with this in a safe D district or not? Would my Congressman Alan Lowenthal be re-elected if he gets arrested for a DUI, or would John Briscoe flip CA-47 for one term?

Lowenthal would be safe with a DUI.

What about multiple DUIs and pulling a Gianforte? Would he still be safe, or are Republicans only safe when they do that?

[136or142]

Could a Democrat get away with this in a safe D district or not? Would my Congressman Alan Lowenthal be re-elected if he gets arrested for a DUI, or would John Briscoe flip CA-47 for one term?

Lowenthal would be safe with a DUI.

What about multiple DUIs and pulling a Gianforte? Would he still be safe, or are Republicans only safe when they do that?

Hopefully Gianforte will lose to Kathleen Williams since nobody will have voted this time before the incident and since the voters are hopefully aware that in addition to Gianforte being violent scum, he's also lying violent scum.

[Jeppe]

There’s a primary debate tonight between Myers and Bryce.

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There’s a primary debate tonight between Myers and Bryce.

He's going to f**k her so much in this debate he'll have to miss child support payments again.

Seriously, I hope he loses the primary

[Jeppe]

There’s a primary debate tonight between Myers and Bryce.

He's going to f**k her so much in this debate he'll have to miss child support payments again.

Seriously, I hope he loses the primary

The funny thing is, Myers was a single mom herself with a deadbeat ex-husband. The choice is so obvious for WI-01 voters, but of course, Resistance Twitter just had to give Bryce $5 million to burn.

[America Needs a 13-6 Progressive SCOTUS]

Being a single mother and not putting your children up for 3rd/4th party adoption is basically telling your child that they do not deserve 2 loving parents in their lives. Reprehensible.

[BudgieForce]

Being a single mother and not putting your children up for 3rd/4th party adoption is basically telling your child that they do not deserve 2 loving parents in their lives. Reprehensible.

I hope your being sarcastic.

[Jeppe]

Being a single mother and not putting your children up for 3rd/4th party adoption is basically telling your child that they do not deserve 2 loving parents in their lives. Reprehensible.

I was 9 years old when my parents separated and my mom became a single mom. I surely would never have left foster care, entering the system at that age. I wish things in my childhood had gone differently, but never once did I think, “I’d love to live in a group home until I was old enough for them to kick me out onto the street”. Unless you’re a healthy white newborn, chances of getting adopted is pretty slim.

[Bidenworth2020]

So? Honestly when has a DUI from over a decade ago sunk anyone?

It almost sunk 43

nah, the cocaine sunk him

[Co-Chair Bagel23]

I'd still reluctantly pick Bryce.

[BlueDogs2020]

Very sad cause I really liked Randy Bryce...
The primary will be close but I think Cathy Myers may be a better choice.

[Badger]

IMHO, I'm most interested in the dates and circumstances of his subsequent three driving under suspensions. I have no big problem with his being arrested in 2011 and 2018 for what was apparently civil disobedience. That in no way shows criminality or contempt for the law. I'm not that particularly concerned about a DUI from 20 years ago either. The real question is whether or not his subsequent driving under suspension where a matter of not being able to pay reinstatement fees and the like, or just driving during a hard period of license suspension but not giving a damn.

Let me explain. From having defended or prosecuted probably over a thousand driving under suspension cases over the years, the vast majority are such suspensions are based on economics. Most sex suspensions originated from not having insurance in effect when one gets involved in an accident or pulled over for a minor traffic violation. Very not cool to be driving around without insurance, and yes, I firmly believe that driving without insurance needs to be as mandatory for operating a vehicle as having working breaks and the like. Still, most people are doing it because they obviously can't afford it. Once people get caught up in such a license suspension, they get trapped Towing reinstatement fees which increase exponentially upon repeat offenses. For that matter, it's much harder to get limited driving privileges for employment in the light for a suspension for driving without insurance that it is 4 driving under the influence. Does people get stuck into a spiral of needing to drive to work, but not being able to get ballad, inevitably getting pop for driving under suspension, especially in smaller towns where the cops know you, and never being able to dig out of reinstatement fee hell that was standing, at least in Ohio, nominal reforms allowing limited repayment plan options as long as you have it driving without insurance more than twice within 5 years.

Iirc, Bryce had to file bankruptcy earlier in his life, and I recently dealt with someone who had to deal with Wisconsin reinstatement fees in the last month and they were astonishingly High. So in short, I would really like to know how much of these driving under suspension charges we're related to him being bankrupt, unemployed, and generally broke, and US unable to pay reinstatement fees, versus how much it was just he was driving under a suspended license, could have got involved, but didn't bother. I'm particularly concerned that it happened not once like his single twenty-year-old DUI, but three times.

I would concur that Myers is probably a much better candidate for Democrats in this District.

[Chief Justice Keef]

I wouldn't mind if Myers was the nominee but people are kidding themselves if they think she's gonna beat Bryce. The latter has a much bigger national profile, MUCH more money and Myers' only real base seems to be #resistance liberals on Twitter who don't like Bryce for being too close ideologically to Bernie (ironically I think she's the further left candidate, so it's really a choice between better or best).

Bryce is going to win the primary 75-25. Being arrested for a DUI isn't going to change this race any bit.

[warandwar]

Having no arrests on you is more suspicious than having them.

Don't pretend having DUIs is some sort of rebellion against the state. Drunk driving is just callous and stupid. My cousin was killed by a drunk driver.

Agreed that Drunk driving is bad. My point is that Rich and Poor do it alike, but who gets arrested for it?

[Badger]

Having no arrests on you is more suspicious than having them.

Don't pretend having DUIs is some sort of rebellion against the state. Drunk driving is just callous and stupid. My cousin was killed by a drunk driver.

Agreed that Drunk driving is bad. My point is that Rich and Poor do it alike, but who gets arrested for it?

Both, in near identical proportions. The old days of some small-town cop letting the local doctor or lawyer drive safely on their way home after clearly having had a few too many are dead and buried almost everywhere. This is why DUI practice is such a lucrative trade in criminal defense.

[Antonio the Sixth]

Yeah, Myers is clearly the best choice here.