Trey Radel Busted On Cocaine Charge Voted For Drug Testing Food Stamp Recipients

[Tedim]

Do you expect him to live by the same standards he would try to hold others to, particularly when it comes to drug use?

He is a representative, defined as representing his constituency he has his job that he gets PAID to do.....my personal opinion is hes stupid, and 99.999999999999999999999 999999999999999999999999 99999999999999999999% of people fail my expectations/standards.

[Tedim]

Hell no, it isn't another conversation.

If you want to talk about the "legal" side of this start a new thread....it'll be a very short thread I think.

[Dos Equis]

The morality and or legality of his actions is not my point, he should be voted out next term or jailed. His vote IS representing MY opinion, he has done everything his electorate elected him to do!

I didn't say anything about morality.  

But legality is the issue. He doesn't want welfare recipients, who receive taxpayer money, to buy illegal drugs.  How the heck can you not have a problem with that same guy using taxpayer money to buy illegal drugs??  

It sounds like you're saying a public servant can do whatever he or she wants when not on duty.  It doesn't work that way.  They are in positions of public trust being paid by us.  They are held to a higher standard.  Or least they should be.  

[Tedim]

All you nincompoops would have.....Pedophile congressmen voting against anti-pedophile laws because its hypocritical? lol

 

[Jack T. Cross]

If you want to talk about the "legal" side of this start a new thread....it'll be a very short thread I think.

Wouldn't that be the reason for drug-testing, in the first place?

[Tedim]

I didn't say anything about morality.  

But legality is the issue. He doesn't want welfare recipients, who receive taxpayer money, to buy illegal drugs.  How the heck can you not have a problem with that same guy using taxpayer money to buy illegal drugs??  

It sounds like you're saying a public servant can do whatever he or she wants when not on duty.  It doesn't work that way.  They are in positions of public trust being paid by us.  They are held to a higher standard.  Or least they should be.  

I said I don't have a problem with HIM VOTING FOR legislation that requires drug test no matter what hes done....If I elected him thats what I expect....

and I DO see a difference between a dollar earned to do with as you will and a dollar given for food to buy drugs

[Dos Equis]

I said I don't have a problem with HIM VOTING FOR legislation that requires drug test no matter what hes done....If I elected him thats what I expect....

and I DO see a difference between a dollar earned to do with as you will and a dollar given for food to buy drugs

It's not just a dollar earned.  It's taxpayer money earned as a public servant. 

And nobody, whether they are a public servant or not, can do whatever they want with their money, at least not without consequences. 

[Jack T. Cross]

Yeah. It's really very simple.

Think of the reasons he'd give, for working toward the things that he did.

Now think about his behavior and his actions.

If it isn't hypocrisy: WHAT is it?

[240 is Back]

locally, people kinda knew what they were getting with Radel.  He was entertaining, but in a clumsy, ugly kid kinda way.  Not the good-looking politician, he had pockmarks and was chunky.  More of a "Im competent and nobody else around here running is".

He was shady, he had a history of porn management with his entertainment companies.  Nobody really bought into his family values talk, it was just "well, he hates obamacare, and we're a 60% repub county, hes good enough!"

He will be successful in the private world, he did drugs and was nationally disgraced for it.  Time to move on from him.   The county loves his replacement, Curt Clawson. 

[Jack T. Cross]

There are reasons to give, when you want to push an idea that foodstamp recipients (or anyone else) should be tested for drugs. And no matter what reasons you give, they'll always stem from the idea that drug-use is unacceptable. Right?

In other words: you can go every which way imaginable, and you will always land on the exact same spot.

Who will deny it?