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Which of the following arrests made last week is the more embarrassing?
The first is that Stewart B. McKinney Jr., a Bridgeport Public School teacher, son of the Fourth District’s late congressman Stewart McKinney and the brother of current state Senate Minority Leader John McKinney (R-Fairfield).
A police officer allegedly caught McKinney, who teaches seventh grade at Longfellow School, doing 55 in a 25-mile-per-hour zone on Bridgeport’s East End. The officer smelled alcohol on McKinney’s breath. When asked where he’d been, McKinney repeatedly said “Rich and Richie’s,” presumably meaning downtown restaurant Ralph and Rich’s. He also said he’d just dropped his “21-year-old girlfriend” “off in the ghetto,” according to police.
The officer asked McKinney if he had a weapon, and he allegedly answered, “Yes, between my legs.” There was a semi-automatic pistol on the floor of the car’s driver’s seat, so McKinney may or may not have been making a dick joke to a cop.
Police charged him with DUI, carrying a firearm while intoxicated and interfering with police.
The second is the arrest of state Rep. Jason Barlett (D-Bethel), who was taken in and booked after police allegedly caught him talking on his cell phone while driving through Newtown.
Of course, using a cell behind the wheel is merely a citation-worthy offense. Barlett wasn’t arrested for that. The state representative was apparently driving with a license the DMV had suspended in August 2008 because he had previously been caught driving while talking on a cell phone in Hartford and never paid the fine. (Bartlett wasn’t in the House when it passed the law banning driving while using a handheld device in 2005.)
Bartlett did not return our calls, but he did tell the Danbury News-Times he “had no knowledge [his] license was suspended.” This is one of the people responsible for hammering out laws for you and me to understand and follow.
So which arrest is more humiliating? Well, Bartlett looks like a hypocrite, but for the rest of his teaching career, when McKinney asks students if they have their homework, some smartass is going to say, “Yes, between my legs.”
The first is that Stewart B. McKinney Jr., a Bridgeport Public School teacher, son of the Fourth District’s late congressman Stewart McKinney and the brother of current state Senate Minority Leader John McKinney (R-Fairfield).
A police officer allegedly caught McKinney, who teaches seventh grade at Longfellow School, doing 55 in a 25-mile-per-hour zone on Bridgeport’s East End. The officer smelled alcohol on McKinney’s breath. When asked where he’d been, McKinney repeatedly said “Rich and Richie’s,” presumably meaning downtown restaurant Ralph and Rich’s. He also said he’d just dropped his “21-year-old girlfriend” “off in the ghetto,” according to police.
The officer asked McKinney if he had a weapon, and he allegedly answered, “Yes, between my legs.” There was a semi-automatic pistol on the floor of the car’s driver’s seat, so McKinney may or may not have been making a dick joke to a cop.
Police charged him with DUI, carrying a firearm while intoxicated and interfering with police.
The second is the arrest of state Rep. Jason Barlett (D-Bethel), who was taken in and booked after police allegedly caught him talking on his cell phone while driving through Newtown.
Of course, using a cell behind the wheel is merely a citation-worthy offense. Barlett wasn’t arrested for that. The state representative was apparently driving with a license the DMV had suspended in August 2008 because he had previously been caught driving while talking on a cell phone in Hartford and never paid the fine. (Bartlett wasn’t in the House when it passed the law banning driving while using a handheld device in 2005.)
Bartlett did not return our calls, but he did tell the Danbury News-Times he “had no knowledge [his] license was suspended.” This is one of the people responsible for hammering out laws for you and me to understand and follow.
So which arrest is more humiliating? Well, Bartlett looks like a hypocrite, but for the rest of his teaching career, when McKinney asks students if they have their homework, some smartass is going to say, “Yes, between my legs.”
Comments (1)
I guess this is news because he ws a Politicians son? He did something stupid but news worthy NO
Posted by AVA on 11.28.09 at 16.13
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