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Default How does a Senator that is a Mormon teetolar get arrested for DUI?

On Monday, December 31, 2012 5:43:43 PM UTC-5, Julie Bove wrote:
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> > How does someone named "Crapo" even get elected or taken serious about

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> > anything? (The story below is not from the Onion, but Huffpo among

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> > others)

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> > "Mike Crapo, the Republican senator from Idaho who was arrested on Sunday

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> > morning for driving under the influence, once said he abstains from

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> > alcohol.

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> > Crapo in 2010 said that he was motivated to sponsor legislation to reduce

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> > taxes on small beer brewers because of his pro-business views. The Mormon

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> > lawmaker told The Associated Press that if the measure was approved, he

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> > would celebrate with root beer because he doesn't consume alcohol.

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> > The three-term senator is accused of registering a 0.11 percent

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> > blood-alcohol level on a breath test after running a red light in

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> > Alexandria, Va.,

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> > The Idaho Statesman said in an editorial published on Tuesday, "It would

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> > be unfair to judge Crapo, or anybody else, on one mistake. But it is

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> > totally fair to evaluate him according to where he goes from here and what

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> > he does to turn this matter from a negative to a positive."

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> > http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/1...n_2362614.html

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> Most of the Mormons I know do drink.


How do you spell Mormon with 1 "m"?