EV-driving election-candidate caught with ethanol-on-the-brain http://bigpondnews.com/articles/Politics/2013/07/22/Greens_candidate_on_drink-driving_charge_890017.html Greens candidate on drink-driving charge July 22, 2013
An electric car-led campaign has backfired for a Greens election candidate facing a drink-driving charge. Rosalie Ellen Woodruff, 48, has appeared in the Hobart Magistrate's Court on a single count after recording a blood alcohol level of 0.065 in June. Dr Woodruff is a federal candidate for the southern Tasmanian seat of Franklin, currently held by newly promoted cabinet minister Julie Collins. She is yet to enter a plea but issued an apology through the party. 'Ms Woodruff apologised unreservedly for the incident,' a Greens statement said. Dr Woodruff, who is a renowned epidemiologist and a local councillor, arrived at her campaign launch last year in a Daihatsu converted to run on electricity. She said Tasmania could become a centre for electrical conversions, which cost about $15,000 per car. Greens leader Christine Milne said disciplinary action, if deemed necessary, would be handled locally by the party. 'Of course I don't condone drink driving,' Senator Milne said. Dr Woodruff will reappear in court on September 5. [© bigpondnews.com] For all EVLN posts use: http://electric-vehicle-discussion-list.413529.n4.nabble.com/template/NamlServlet.jtp?macro=search_page&node=413529&query=evln&sort=date Here are today's archive-only EV posts: EVLN: $99 EMW JuiceBox Open-Source L2 EVSE Reached Kickstarter Goal EVLN: Whill e-Wheelchair $1M funding for 2014 production (video) EVLN: Oxford U's Self-Driving Robot Leaf EV EVLN: Automakers use the lucrative connected-EV M2M-frontier EVLN: 'In my EV, I am driving the future, ... ' + EVLN: Switch-Vehicles/Electric-Auto-Shop EV courses {brucedp.150m.com} -- View this message in context: http://electric-vehicle-discussion-list.413529.n4.nabble.com/EVLN-15k-electrical-conversions-Tasmanian-centre-tp4664441.html Sent from the Electric Vehicle Discussion List mailing list archive at Nabble.com. _______________________________________________ UNSUBSCRIBE: http://www.evdl.org/help/index.html#usub http://lists.evdl.org/listinfo.cgi/ev-evdl.org For EV drag racing discussion, please use NEDRA (http://groups.yahoo.com/group/NEDRA)
