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

[Dos Equis]

Hypocrite.

Trey Radel, Busted On Cocaine Charge, Voted For Drug Testing Food Stamp Recipients
Posted: 11/19/2013 7:21 pm EST Updated: 10/16/2014 1

WASHINGTON -- In September, Rep. Trey Radel voted for Republican legislation that would allow states to make food stamp recipients pee in cups to prove they're not on drugs. In October, police busted the Florida Republican on a charge of cocaine possession.

“It’s really interesting it came on the heels of Republicans voting on everyone who had access to food stamps get drug tested," House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) told BuzzFeed Tuesday. "It’s like, what?”

The House over the summer approved an amendment by Rep. Richard Hudson (R-N.C.) that would let states drug test people on food stamps. The amendment passed by voice vote, meaning members' individual yeas and nays were not recorded. Radel later voted in favor of a broader food stamps bill that included Hudson's measure.


In support of his drug testing legislation, Hudson cited the many state legislatures around the country that had considered similar requirements for other means-tested programs in recent years.

"This is a clear and obvious problem in our communities as nearly 30 states have introduced legislation to drug test for welfare programs," Hudson said. "We have a moral obligation to equip the states with the tools they need to discourage the use of illegal drugs."

Most of the state legislation was authored by Republicans. Oftentimes, state Democrats responded by suggesting lawmakers should be subject to tests as well. If the government's going to make sure recipients of taxpayer-funded benefits are clean, the argument went, then why not also make sure the recipients of taxpayer salaries are clean, too?

In June, Rep. Jim McGovern (D-Mass.) made that very suggestion when he questioned why recipients of crop insurance and other government benefits weren't also targeted for drug tests like people on food stamps.

"Why don't we drug test all the members of Congress here," McGovern said shortly before the drug-testing measure passed. "Force everybody to go urinate in a cup or see whether or not anybody is on drugs? Maybe that will explain why some of these amendments are coming up or why some of the votes are turning out the way they are."

The fate of the food stamp drug testing provision is in the hands of a House-Senate conference committee hashing out differences between food stamp and farm legislation that passed the two chambers. It's got a chance. Last year, Congress passed a law to let states drug-test some unemployment insurance recipients.

Radel apologized Tuesday for his cocaine bust and said he'd seek treatment.

"I struggle with the disease of alcoholism, and this led to an extremely irresponsible choice," he said.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/11/19/trey-radel-drug-testing_n_4305348.html

[Archer77]

Elites always think they are above the law.

[doison]

He was on food stamps?

[pedro01]

"I struggle with the disease of alcoholism, and this led to an extremely irresponsible choice," he said.

    

Man up for fucks sake.

[tonymctones]

not hypocritical unless he is against drugs or on food stamps.

Personally I dont give a shit what you do as long as it doesnt effect me. I think a drug using social leach is worse....then again he is a politician which makes him a leach...

[240 is Back]

I loved trey radel's morning show.  listened to him from 6 til 9am on FOX radio a lot of mornings.   This was before he ran.  Good guy.  married to a local news anchor.  He was one of those dudes that attacked obama daily, and thought criminal prosecutions were the answer to everything - until he did coke. 

His opponents attacked him for being a porn king, as his media company did a lot of that.  Maybe that showed some of the shady side of him.   Locally, he wasn't a rock star, more of a statesman, a younger promising star but not shiny either.

He did rehab, he got his record deleted, his woman got her news anchor job back with local FOX affiliate.   His seat was taken by that NBA player, who won re-eleciton by refusing to debate lol.  curt clawson. 

radel will be back.  he'll run on some "help the poor drug abusers" once the party swings RINO, and he wants to run a moderate.  Man, he tore up obama for his drug use lol, funny times.

[Dos Equis]

not hypocritical unless he is against drugs or on food stamps.

Personally I dont give a shit what you do as long as it doesnt effect me. I think a drug using social leach is worse....then again he is a politician which makes him a leach...

He's a government employee receiving government benefits just likes those on public assistance. 

[Jack T. Cross]

Lol at any dumbass that would make excuses for this person. He behaved like a hypocrite, a liar, a scumbag. And you can bet your sweet life he'd still be getting high if it was up to him.

Lol, get real.

[doison]

Lol at any dumbass that would make excuses for this person. He behaved like a hypocrite, a liar, a scumbag. And you can bet your sweet life he'd still be getting high if it was up to him.

Lol, get real.

Is he against drugs?  Or just against people on government assistance spending money for drugs?

[Jack T. Cross]

Is he against drugs?  Or just against people on government assistance spending money for drugs?

Maybe he was doing drugs in order to make them less available to others.

[240 is Back]

he was just buying cocaine to prevent this cocaine from being available to obama. 

therefore his drug buy was, well, kinda heroic.

[tonymctones]

He's a government employee receiving government benefits just likes those on public assistance. 

nah a paycheck is different than public assistance.

Technically he is being paid for a serivce, what service are the people on public assistance providing?

Dont get me wrong the guys is almost certainly a shit head but not b/c he voted for a bill on drug testing those who receive tax payer money for nothing in return and then did drugs.

[AbrahamG]

nah a paycheck is different than public assistance.

Technically he is being paid for a serivce, what service are the people on public assistance providing?

Dont get me wrong the guys is almost certainly a shit head but not b/c he voted for a bill on drug testing those who receive tax payer money for nothing in return and then did drugs.

Bullshit.  They work like 100 days a year and make almost 200k from us.  This is way worse than welfare.

[tonymctones]

Bullshit.  They work like 100 days a year and make almost 200k from us.  This is way worse than welfare.

valid argument, unfortunately it doesnt change the fact that he does work to perform a service for the money he makes.

again what service do those on public assistance perform to earn their money?

[Dos Equis]

nah a paycheck is different than public assistance.

Technically he is being paid for a serivce, what service are the people on public assistance providing?

Dont get me wrong the guys is almost certainly a shit head but not b/c he voted for a bill on drug testing those who receive tax payer money for nothing in return and then did drugs.

I understand the difference, although they are both receiving money from the government.  If he is taking the position that people who receive government money should be drug tested, he shouldn't be doing drugs himself.  He used his taxpayer funded salary to buy the very thing he is trying to prevent welfare recipients from using.  That's hypocrisy in my book. 

[Dos Equis]

Bullshit.  They work like 100 days a year and make almost 200k from us.  This is way worse than welfare.

I wouldn't call it worse than welfare, but overall I agree with you. 

[Irongrip400]

he was just buying cocaine to prevent this cocaine from being available to obama. 

therefore his drug buy was, well, kinda heroic.

Lol. That sounds like some of the excuses the guys in the "To Catch A Preditor"  say to Chris Hanson.

[AbrahamG]

I wouldn't call it worse than welfare, but overall I agree with you. 

Perhaps if these clowns would do their jobs and legislate and pass bills and compromise more jobs would be
created leading to less people needing welfare and or unemployment.  

China's infrastructure spending is something like 10% of their GDP.  I believe ours is at 2% if not a little under.  Historically,
we are usually somewhere around 4%.  A bump back to 4 or higher would do wonders for our economy, unemployment as well
as stagnant wages.

[Dos Equis]

Perhaps if these clowns would do their jobs and legislate and pass bills and compromise more jobs would be
created leading to less people needing welfare and or unemployment.  

China's infrastructure spending is something like 10% of their GDP.  I believe ours is at 2% if not a little under.  Historically,
we are usually somewhere around 4%.  A bump back to 4 or higher would do wonders for our economy, unemployment as well
as stagnant wages.

I think the problem is they passed too much legislation that makes doing business and job creation harder.  I would cut their pay, impose term limits, and make them subject to every law they pass. 

[240 is Back]

Trey Radel was awesome - he supported drug testing for welfare recipients, voted for it... while using coke as a congressman.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/11/19/trey-radel-drug-testing_n_4305348.html

some people are just built for the private sector, that's him.   He got caught up in the "I hate obama, i love tea party' as a local fox radio host, and was the most well known anti-obama voice in lee county, so he won. 

[LurkerNoMore]

Maybe he was doing drugs in order to make them less available to others.

LOL!!!

[tonymctones]

Perhaps if these clowns would do their jobs and legislate and pass bills and compromise more jobs would be
created leading to less people needing welfare and or unemployment. 

China's infrastructure spending is something like 10% of their GDP.  I believe ours is at 2% if not a little under.  Historically,
we are usually somewhere around 4%.  A bump back to 4 or higher would do wonders for our economy, unemployment as well
as stagnant wages.

not a fair comparison as china has to build infrastructure and we are simply maintaining ours as its already built. I would hasten to guess that any country who has risen as quickly as china has is playing catch up in terms of infrastructure.

I can agree with you though as the streets here in Houston are absolute shit!!!

Problem is we already spend 70+% on entitlements, whats china pay? we need to stop spending so much on entitlements and start using it elsewhere or not using it at all and let it stay in the pockets of those who earn it.

[doison]

I'm really not worked up about this. 

I've done drugs...they're fun.  I'm okay with people who have the money to buy them doing them for fun as well. 
I'm also okay with telling people "if you can't afford food and need taxpayers to buy it for you, then you shouldn't have money for drugs." 

[Jack T. Cross]

LOL!!!

Haha..

[Jack T. Cross]

I'm really not worked up about this. 

I've done drugs...they're fun.  I'm okay with people who have the money to buy them doing them for fun as well. 
I'm also okay with telling people "if you can't afford food and need taxpayers to buy it for you, then you shouldn't have money for drugs." 

Do you think FOR ONE MINUTE that Radel would have endorsed the idea that people break the law and use drugs, doison?

We know that he would endorse the idea that someone be forced to suffer if they do that. We also know he wouldn't have passed the drug test that he wanted for others, don't we?