-Caveat Lector-
"Informer" on Bush's OUI Charge Is Lying
It also gives us live illustration of how George Bush deals with crisis.
By: Mary Mostert
Analyst for Original Sources (www.originalsources)
November 4, 2000
Rush Limbaugh happened to be on the Fox News Hannity and Colmes
show minutes after the 24 year old "operating under the
influence" story about George Bush broke. Limbaugh tells us:
"A Fox reporter in Portland, Maine, Erin Fehlau, released the
story. Wednesday, Fehlau says she was at the Cumberland County
Courthouse covering a story, when a cop told her that she
overheard a lawyer and a judge talking about Bush's arrest in
1976. She just happened to overhear that.
"Fehlau said she made calls for two hours, couldn't get any
information because the case was so old. No computer files
existed, and the paper documents had been archived. At about
2:30 yesterday afternoon, she caught up with the lawyer, who
offered to provide her a docket number and other information that
he said was at his law office.
"It just happened to be in his law office, this
quarter-century-old docket number."
The lawyer was Tom Connolly, an attorney in Maine who ran for
governor of the state two years ago. Connolly was interviewed by
Tony Snow on FoxNews yesterday. He was a delegate at the
Democratic National Convention in August and claims he didn't
know a thing about the OUI incident until Wednesday. The
exchange between Connolly and Snow went as follows:
Snow: You said the clerk called you up and gave you information
about this?
Connolly: Oh, no, no! After I called the clerk the Clerk faxed
me the abstract�
Snow: And how did you learn about it?
Connolly: I learned about it in court yesterday about 1:10 after
I after a call from from an attorney who became aware of it
also�.
Snow: Is this an attorney who is based primarily in Maine?
Connolly: Yes, sir.
Snow: So it wasn't a judge then?
Connolly: Ah - In Maine the-the system is complicated and so I
will neither confirm or deny my particular source. That person
is confidential.
Snow: You are not going to say whether it is a certain probate
judge whose name is being bandied around a lot?
Connolly: I certainly wouldn't say that because that's not my
function. My function is that I got the information from the
Clerk's office. It's truthful information. The Secretary of
State confirmed and then I provided it out.
Snow: Where do you think your source got the information?
Connolly: From a person who was in court at the day that "W" went
in and pled guilty.
>From that we are supposed to believe that Connolly just happened
to hear from a fellow attorney, sort of out of the blue, that
George W. Bush had a OUI arrest 24 years ago, and he called up
the clerk in the town of Biddeford, who in a matter of 20 minutes
was able to find the 24 year old records and fax them to him, and
no other Democrats knew a thing about it and the person who is
the actual source is an unnamed person who was in court the day
George W. Bush went in and pled guilty.
And, of course, all Connolly is really interested in is the truth
and, when asked, stoutly said that the Gore campaign had nothing
to do with his actions.
There's a small problem with this scenario. George W. Bush
never went into a court.
When the story broke, George W. Bush stepped in front of press
cameras and said:
Bush: There's a report out tonight that 24 years ago I was
apprerhended in Kennebunkport, Maine, for a DUI. That's an
accurate story. I'm not proud of that. I oftentimes said that
years ago I made some mistakes. I occasionally drank too much
and I did on that night.
I was pulled over. I admitted to the policeman that I had been
drinking. I paid a fine. And I regret that it happened. But it
did. I've learned my lesson.
As I mentioned, as many of you know that I quit drinking alcohol
in 1986. And it was the right decision for me to make then. I
would be glad to answer a few questions. Question: Why wait
until now?
Bush: Well, it came out now because a TV station in Maine broke
the story. But I made the decision that, as a dad, I didn't want
my girls doing the kinds of t hings I did and I told them not to
drink and drive. It was a decision I made. I have been very up
front with the people of the state of Texas that, you know, that
I had been drinking in the past, that I had made mistakes. And
the story broke.
Question: Why now?
I think that's an interesting question, why now, four days before
an election?
A reporter asked:
"Could you tell us some more about the night that you spent some
time in jail? Did you�"
Bush responded: "No, I didn't spend any night in jail there. I
did not spend time in jail.
Then a reporter asked:
Question: Governor, was there any legal proceeding of any kind?
Or did you just�
Bush: No, - you know, I said I was wrong and I�
Question: In court?
Bush: No, there was no court. I went to the police station. I
said "I'm wrong."
So, Connelly tells us , the Gore Campaign headquarters had
nothing to do with this and all he's told us is "truthful
information?" Connelly also urges us to "look at the facts" and
to realize this is a "criminal offense - not just youthful
exuberance. When you have an OUI offense you can't go into
Canada and Canada is a NATO country. OUI is a matter of moral
turpitude." He repeated over and over that this is a "crime" of
great magnitude.
Yet, in 1976 in Maine, it appears from researching Title 29-A of
the Maine laws, an OUI offense was not considered a crime, but a
traffic offense. The laws on OUI offenses on the books today are
tougher than the laws were in the 1970s but even under the law
passed in 1993 the incident was NOT a "criminal" offense since
Bush was not under 21, was not resisting arrest, refusing to take
a sobriety test, did not have a blood-alcohol level higher than
.15 or speeding.
While Connelly said George W. Bush "could have gone to jail" and
someone apparently started a rumor that he HAD gone to jail, even
today a first time OUI offense, where no one has been hurt, and
the driver is over 21, was not speeding and does not resist
arrest, is not a "crime" where jail time would be given.
Connelly is clearly lying and obviously covering up the identity
of the person responsible for this last minute dirty trick. It
also gives us live illustration of how George Bush deals with
crisis. As Rush Limbaugh says:
"Neither Bill Clinton nor Algore have ever shown the kind of
integrity and guts that George W. Bush displayed Thursday night.
And presidents, as we all know, face these kinds of personal and
official challenges during the time they hold office.
"Ladies and gentlemen, I honestly believe that the way Bush dealt
with this brought tears to the eyes of many people. There he
was, admitting it, not using his father's power, name or status
to try and cover it up or escape punishment a la Ted Kennedy.
"Thursday night, we saw George Bush behave precisely the way he
has assured us he would if elected. He will be a steady man with
a steady hand. He demonstrated that for us, whereas Algore has
demonstrated that he lacks these critical qualities.
"It's clear that Bush will not lie to the American people as
president, because he didn't lie to his friends and he didn't lie
to his family about this DUI. He was open and straightforward.
He faced the situation like a man.
"Contrast that with 'no controlling legal authority.' Contrast it
with Bill Clinton's 'It depends what the meaning of 'is' is."
Rush is right. This carefully orchestrated Democrat plot to trap
George W. has trapped the Democrats and they deserve it.
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