Ohio state Rep. Robert Mecklenborg, Republican, was arrested on April 23 for drunk driving in Indiana while driving a car with temporary Kentucky plates. He also had Viagra in his system and, the New York Daily News reports, “was also traveling with a woman who was not his wife, 26 year-old Tiona Roberts.”
He also, the AP points out, had recently “delivered an impassioned floor speech and cast a vote in support of House Bill 125, the so-called “heartbeat bill” that would prohibit abortions once a fetus' heartbeat could be detected, usually six or seven weeks into a pregnancy.” Somehow the arrest of two months ago only surfaced the day after that speech was made.
Well, he’s clearly a busy guy—married, three kids, making bizarre-sounding speeches on behalf of restricting abortion and squiring young ladies half his age around town— who remembers to reveal a little thing like a DUI arrest?
He also, the AP points out, had recently “delivered an impassioned floor speech and cast a vote in support of House Bill 125, the so-called “heartbeat bill” that would prohibit abortions once a fetus' heartbeat could be detected, usually six or seven weeks into a pregnancy.” Somehow the arrest of two months ago only surfaced the day after that speech was made.
Well, he’s clearly a busy guy—married, three kids, making bizarre-sounding speeches on behalf of restricting abortion and squiring young ladies half his age around town— who remembers to reveal a little thing like a DUI arrest?
What he did was reprehensible, but I fail to see the connection between his crime/arrest and his speech about abortion. Had he been caught forcing his mistress to have an abortion, then you would have a point. But this is just an ad hominem attack. It's like saying that any legislation supported by Anthony Weiner or Ted Kennedy is somehow illegitimate because of the moral failings of these politicians.
Made more reprehensible because of his fluting of family values and his pushing legislation that would impose his supposed morals on other people. Weiner Kennedy et al did not try to legislate your morality or your private life. They did not try to modify the way you live your life - who you chose to live it with or what you do in the privacy of you own home. Bachman Meklanborg - the whole damned social conservative movement is all about that.
His views on abortion veiled as protecting the innocent is -- if you are going to have sex then you take the risk of being punished by having a baby -- even if that baby belongs to your father - because that is gods way.
Not ad hominem but ad hypocritical attack -- this guy needs to resign - but repubs being repubs he will get thier unqualified support and all will be forgotten (shoved under the rug) want an example -- see Vitter and the love he got from the right.
This guy is a menace and needs to be stuffed into a supermax where he can be adopted as jail house bride by neonazi serial killers. Or maybe as a chew toy.