Auntie Charo's Soapbox

Well....the front page of today's birdcage liner announced that the utility czar is arrested for DUI(alleged/again) on a Friday, one would think that himself would be in the klink for the weekend....but don't hold your breath...the dude has friends in high places...three day weekends are only for dudes/dudettes who don't have friends...they shoot guns in their back yards...they stay in jail....they DUI again on weekends, they stay put until Monday....
But the question isn't about having friends, it's more about the example our highly paid people give to the public, to people who work for them...people who drive vehicles of these utilities who themselves are arrested for DUIs....how many times do they have to be arrested before we say it's enough? Three?
I wonder what Dr. Tom Shieh thinks of alcohol and utility czars an examples for the youngsters just getting out of high schools...after all, he and other groups are trying to get the drinking age to change from 18 to 21....wow....I wonder what the youngsters think when they read that a person who makes over $100K is arrested twice for DUI and gets to keep his job. Does he or she put that bit of information in some secret part of his/er brain and sometime down the line of life play it back and drive after six or seven drinks? This time plowing their SUV on to a family and killing one or all of them? Do we not demand more from our officials?
Not many weeks ago, a Congressman drove while on a sleep medication and some other drug in DC. He admittedhe was addicted to pain medication. It was said he was also at a bar drinking before his accident in DC. He went to the Mayo Clinic for some rehab work for his problem, perhaps our czar should consider doing likewise, if not for himself, for those that share the roadways after he's had 'a few'.
I think that if the man was working in the privat sector and made the front page of a newspaper....twice.....he probably wouldn't be working there.......but government of Guam has some very wierd rules, they find all kinds of reasons to keep their employees on the payroll.