Patrick Kennedy Involved In Crash: Coverup?
UPDATE 4 His second statement on the accident! This must have slipped his mind when the news broke this afternoon!
Kennedy, D-R.I., addressed the issue after a spate of news reports. His initial statement said: “I consumed no alcohol prior to the incident.”‘
Later, however, he issued a longer statement saying the attending physician for Congress had prescribed Phenergan on Tuesday to treat Kennedy’s gastroenteritis.
Kennedy said he returned to his Capitol Hill home on Wednesday evening after a final series of votes in Congress and took “prescribed” amounts of Phenergan and Ambien, another prescribed drug that he occasionally takes to fall asleep.“Some time around 2:45 a.m., I drove the few blocks to the Capitol Complex believing I needed to vote,” his second statement said. “Apparently, I was disoriented from the medication.”
Why does it sound like something Teddy came up with?
From The Drudge Report:
Officers Claim Brass Interfered in Investigation of Rep. Kennedy Incident… Police labor union officials asked acting Chief Christopher McGaffin this afternoon to allow a Capitol Police officer to complete his investigation into an early-morning car crash involving Rep. Patrick Kennedy (D-R.I.).
According to a letter sent by Officer Greg Baird, acting chairman of the USCP FOP, the wreck took place at approximately 2:45 a.m. Thursday when Kennedy’s car, operating with its running lights turned off, narrowly missed colliding with a Capitol Police cruiser and smashed into a security barricade at First and C streets Southeast.
UPDATE 1From Michelle Malkin a link from WUSA TV:
9 News has learned U.S. Capitol police officers are concerned about the handling of an accident involving Congressman Patrick Kennedy (D-Rhode Island) about 3 a.m. this morning.
Rep. Kennedy was reportedly behind the wheel of a green Ford Mustang when it crashed into a security barrier at 1st and “C” streets Southeast.There are no reports of injuries. A Boston TV station is reporting Kennedy told officers he was late for a vote. We are told police drove him home after conferring with higher-ups in the department. So far, Kennedy HAS NOT been charged. A spokesman for his office told CNN that alcohol was NOT involved.
The head of the Fraternal Order of Police Lodge 1, Lou Cannon, told 9 News that he’s concerned that Kennedy may have received special treatment and this could be a case where “rank has its privilege.”
Cannon also told 9 News that officers noticed the car swerving, looking as if it was going to make a U-turn.
9 News reporter Stacey Cohan spoke to Kennedy’s press secretary at his congressional office in Rhode Island, who said she is looking into the situation, but does not have any information right now.
Congressman Patrick Kennedy is Ted Kennedy’s son. He is currently serving his sixth term as the Democratic Congressman from Rhode Island. He sits on the powerful House Appropriations Committee.
UPDATE 2:
Kennedy Statement
Kennedy, D-R.I., addressed the issue after a spate of news reports.
“I was involved in a traffic accident last night at First and C Street SE near the U.S. Capitol,” Kennedy said in a written statement released by his office. “I consumed no alcohol prior to the incident. I will fully cooperate with the Capitol Police in whatever investigation they choose to undertake.”
Kennedy appeared to be intoxicated when he crashed his car into a barrier on Capitol Hill early Thursday morning, said Louis P. Cannon, president of the Washington chapter of the Fraternal Order of Police.
Cannon, who was not there, said the officers involved in the accident were instructed by an official “above the rank of patrolman” to take Kennedy home.
No sobriety tests were conducted at the scene.
UPDATE 3: WRKO talk show host Howie Carr has a police report from a separate Pat Kennedy car crash two weeks ago:
Note his handwriting!
Full police report here
May 4, 2006 - 04:07 PM on May 4th, 2006
Wait…am I missing something here? Kennedy told officers “he was late for a vote”…
…at 3am?
May 4, 2006 - 04:26 PM on May 4th, 2006
Yeah, I can’t wait for Mike Kilo’s remarks!!!
May 4, 2006 - 04:54 PM on May 4th, 2006
Did any females drown as a result? Deja vu all over again?
May 4, 2006 - 04:54 PM on May 4th, 2006
1- Nope, you are not missing anything..that is what was said!:shock:
BTW, I am awaiting confirmation that this is the 2nd accident in the past 2 weeks. It is alledged that he had one 2 weeks ago in RI
May 4, 2006 - 05:26 PM on May 4th, 2006
The shithead clearly dosen’t fall far from the big shithead
Kennedy’s, rape, crime, bootlegging, murder, prostitutes, mafia….what’s the news here?
It would be news if a fucking Kennedy stayed sober for 5 minutes and actually contributed something meaningful to society…
Let’s see you defend this POS, San Fran….
May 4, 2006 - 06:01 PM on May 4th, 2006
Kennedys and Driving, Just Mix and Stir
Patrick Kennedy, the Rhode Island Congressman and son of prominent Democratic Senator Ted Kennedy, apparently had a little trouble behind the wheel (from Drudge)
olice labor union officials asked acting Chief Christopher McGaffin this afternoon to all…
May 4, 2006 - 07:19 PM on May 4th, 2006
well what’s new? that is the first family of the new world order for you, its nothing was he beaten by the cops? was he put in jail? did he kill anyone yet? did he call hillary yet? or bill? or Bush or Bin Laden for help in this little matter?:wink:
May 4, 2006 - 07:47 PM on May 4th, 2006
This is the same idiot who got up on a table in a bar last year and proclaimed he didn’t have a real job, he was a Congressman and also that he didn’t need to work because he was a Kennedy.
Why should anyone expect any less favorable treatment for Ted’s son? His bodyguard was arrested for bringing TWO FULLY AUTOMATIC UZIS and a 9mm Beretta handgun into the Capital building in violation of the DC ordinances banning the possession of weapons with capacities in excess of ten rounds. The bodyguard was arrested, booked, fingerprinted, and sat in a cell for the three hours it took to find the Senator. Within a few minutes of Teddy finding out about the arrested, the bodyguard was released and charges dropped.
May 4, 2006 - 07:47 PM on May 4th, 2006
What is left to be determined is will Rep. Kennedy resign? Should Senator Ted Kennedy resign?
Should Nancy Pelosi resign?
Should Howard Dean resign?
All legitimate questions. The same thing was heard in the MSM ad nauseum after the Cheney hunting accident, and this is vastly more serious than that was. The precedent has been set; they brought it on, so this is an entirely legitimate point and line of questioning.
May 4, 2006 - 08:19 PM on May 4th, 2006
Robert- I just up-dated it with his latest excuse. That darn Ambien is what did it to him!
May 4, 2006 - 08:38 PM on May 4th, 2006
“At no time did I ask for any special consideration,” he said. “I simply complied with what the officers asked me to do.” If he was whacked out on a drug cocktail, how does he know this? People that sleepwalk don’t recall anything, do they?
May 4, 2006 - 08:38 PM on May 4th, 2006
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May 4, 2006 - 10:41 PM on May 4th, 2006
“…the Cheney hunting accident, and this is vastly more serious than that was.”
What?! A Vice President of the United States accidentally shooting a man in the face is far more serious and noteworthy than a Congressman crashing his car while on prescription drugs.
I mean, the Cheney accident is history - we all know about V.P Aaron Burr…
…nobody knows or cares if some Congressman from 1806 crashed his carriage drunk on wine.
May 5, 2006 - 02:15 AM on May 5th, 2006
Sorry, SFL. Yer wrong, by a mile.
The Cheney accident was just that. An accident, on private property.
The Kennedy deal was DUI. He was driving on a public roadway without headlights, he easily could have killed someone.
Yes, DUI, a crime. It doesn’t matter whether he was on prescription medication, issued by a Doctor—if you are under the influence, it’s DUI.
Of course, criminal activity is nothing new for this miscreant, or for his Dad, Chapatraitor Ted.
Don’t take on this case. I know you’re a contrarian, but this one’s a sure loser.
May 5, 2006 - 07:00 AM on May 5th, 2006
I told you, Kennedy’s breaking the law, drunk driving, raping, bootlegging, killing, etc…
not even news anymore…..made page 71 of today’s Daily News.
imagine if had been Rick Santorum? Newt Gingrich? Tom Delay? There isn’t enough ink…..
May 5, 2006 - 07:03 AM on May 5th, 2006
Page Seventy Fucking One
May 5, 2006 - 07:06 AM on May 5th, 2006
If you see a Kennedy in a car, shooting them should be Self Defense.
May 5, 2006 - 07:12 AM on May 5th, 2006
13- Mike, it took 2 hours for the wires to report anything. When they did, they buried it on the feed. Nothing on Reuters last night, just AP
May 5, 2006 - 07:18 AM on May 5th, 2006
15. haha..that’s hilarious!!!!
Can you imagine if that was Tom Delay????? Holy shit, there would be a public fucking stoning.
SF, any thoughts?
There should be a new felony put on the books DWK (Driving while Kennedy)
May 5, 2006 - 07:18 AM on May 5th, 2006
15. haha..that’s hilarious!!!!
Can you imagine if that was Tom Delay????? Holy shit, there would be a public fucking stoning.
SF, any thoughts?
There should be a new felony put on the books DWK (Driving while Kennedy)
May 5, 2006 - 07:19 AM on May 5th, 2006
seriously, this is like shooting fish in a barrel..or cars in a lake
the jokes practically write themselves!!!!!
May 5, 2006 - 07:22 AM on May 5th, 2006
Actually this is history as well. This is just another example of the Kennedy family flaunting the fact that the rules don’t apply to them. The police had no business not following procedure. But the police would not have been in that position had he not been on the road at 3:00 a.m. putting lives in danger. BTW..a bar patron verified seeing him having drinks!
May 5, 2006 - 07:40 AM on May 5th, 2006
This family is a fucking menace…. they should undergo mandatory sterilization.. not a damn one of them has been worth a shit..and I’m including Jack and Bobby too.
Horrific…They represent everything that is repugnant about the eastern, liberal, trust-fund elite.
May 5, 2006 - 07:41 AM on May 5th, 2006
This is the same idiot who said that oppsing gun control was insane and here we have another drunken kennedy but this was,nt near chapaquedic was it?:roll:
May 5, 2006 - 07:48 AM on May 5th, 2006
This is perfect example of the Democrat Culture of Corruption. The person from San Francisco can’t even admit that Kennedy isn’t betreated like the average citizen. He won’t address the corruption that allows Patrick not only to stay in Congress, but to not lose anything. Just shows who is blind and unreasoning here.
May 5, 2006 - 07:56 AM on May 5th, 2006
Each and everytime I pass by a “Kennedy Blvd” or a “Kennedy High School” I get physically ill.
it’s like naming a rape crisis center the “Clinton Center”
it’s friggin’ outrageous.
May 5, 2006 - 08:10 AM on May 5th, 2006
..and Oh, are the libs in silence mode….
go to dailyKrap and do a ctrl-F on “kennedy”
no matches
I’m shocked.
May 5, 2006 - 08:23 AM on May 5th, 2006
Is Congress Above the Law?
The lesson here is that a good many of our elected officials are taking advantage of the public trust while creating a ruling class of family and friends who have too much influence on American policy. This is not the way it is supposed to be.
…
May 5, 2006 - 08:30 AM on May 5th, 2006
Mike, they have to sit and take it. Their hypocrisies have caught up to them. They know what they should do, but aren’t honest or ethical enough to throw Kennedy under the bus.
May 5, 2006 - 08:39 AM on May 5th, 2006
Of course not…did you see how fast SFL brought out the “Cheney Hunting Accident”???????
they are incapable of admitting when one of their heroes screws the pooch..McKinney, Unkle Ted, Bill the Rapist, this Kennedy A-hole
but Tom Delay……oooh man, we need to git that sumbitch!!
May 5, 2006 - 08:53 AM on May 5th, 2006
Let ‘em defend this a-hole..it tells you everything you need to know about them.
It’s amazing what a shitfit they through over Tom Delay, or some soldier pointing at a terrorist’s nutsack…
May 5, 2006 - 09:06 AM on May 5th, 2006
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May 5, 2006 - 09:15 AM on May 5th, 2006
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May 5, 2006 - 10:20 AM on May 5th, 2006
“Actually this is history as well. This is just another example of the Kennedy family flaunting the fact that the rules don’t apply to them.”
Yeah, sure, whatever – but that still doesn’t change the fact the this incident ranks lower on interest and historical scales than the vice president accidentaly shooting a man in the face.
People will be talking and learning about the Cheney accident for DECADES…who the “F” will care about some Congressman in some accident?
Not defending Pat Kennedy AT ALL, just saying responding to precious post of Roberts…
May 5, 2006 - 10:35 AM on May 5th, 2006
SF.. your credibility is sinking with each and every post.
it’s not “some congressman”.. it’s the fucking douchebag, criminal, entitlement, rapist, murdering, bootlegging pieces of shit who think they are above us mere mortals.
Denounce these scumbags or you really have NO LEG to stand on.
May 5, 2006 - 10:36 AM on May 5th, 2006
“This is perfect example of the Democrat Culture of Corruption. The person from San Francisco can’t even admit that Kennedy isn’t betreated like the average citizen.”
No problem, I’ll admit it. KENNEDY ISN’T BEING TREATED LIKE AN AVERAGE CITIZEN.
Clearly, if you or I did this we’d be taken to the slammer, if only to sober up. These cops drove him home. (!)
Did he even get a citation? I don’t think so.
“He won’t address the corruption that allows Patrick not only to stay in Congress, but to not lose anything.”
Corruption that allows him to stay in congress, what do you mean? This is a car accident, not a scheme to bilk taxpayers out of billions, or some bribery scandal invloving lobbyists…car accidents happen all the time, bribes do not.
Let’s not make a mountain out of a mole hill, here…
“
id you see how fast SFL brought out the “Cheney Hunting Accidentâ€???????”
Hey, I didn’t bring that up! I was responding to Roberts claim that this is more serious than the VP shooting a man.
No one on the Left that I’m aware of is sticking up for this man, he drove when he shouldn’t have drove. Pure and simple. That’s probably why no Left Blogs are talking about it. Accidents happen to everyone…
But calling for his head is nothing more than political nit-picking…you guys are just thirsty for revenge after our take-down of your House Majority Leader…
There is an investigation underway, and everything we say about “corruption” or “special treatment” is pure speculation until we know for sure if this man will be charged at all, or if he’ll face some fines.
Just shows who is blind and unreasoning here.
May 5, 2006 - 10:37 AM on May 5th, 2006
that last line isn’t mine, FYI
May 5, 2006 - 10:52 AM on May 5th, 2006
SF.. you are still going, huh? our “take down of your house majority leader”????? I still don’t know what he did, but if he broke the law, I’ve said it a million times, he should be locked away
why can’t you apply the same standard to those fuckface Kennedys?
May 5, 2006 - 10:55 AM on May 5th, 2006
let’s go to the tail of the tape
Jo Kennedy – Bootlegger
JFK – Womanizer, Mafia puppet, Commie sympathyser and Cuba sell-out
RFK – two faced McCarythyite, womanizing prick
Ted Kennedy – Stone Killer
William Kennedy Smith – Rapist
Patrick Kennedy – Drunk Driving fuckbag
Bill Clinton – Rapist, Molester, liar, perjurer, sexual predator
Cynthia McKinney – Criminal, racist assaulting officers
but ooh…….tom delay, let’s hand him at high noon!!!!
May 5, 2006 - 10:57 AM on May 5th, 2006
no hypocrisy here, move along people! nothing to see here!
I’ve got a case of the Friday’s (which means I’m in dire need of the local “special”….shot of old crow and a tall Pabst Blue Ribbon…$3″
May 5, 2006 - 11:01 AM on May 5th, 2006
Friday. F*cking A.
May 5, 2006 - 11:04 AM on May 5th, 2006
I’m on a 4 hour countdown…. 3 hrs and 55 minutes…..
May 5, 2006 - 11:08 AM on May 5th, 2006
3 hrs and 52 minutes…whew! and apparently NO Kennedys on local highways.
May 5, 2006 - 11:12 AM on May 5th, 2006
…advantage of living on West Coast.
May 5, 2006 - 11:13 AM on May 5th, 2006
I’ll say, I think the rush hour suckers in Philly today will GLADLY accept a “gapers delay” or a “roving PENNDOT crew” over a lubed up Kennedy on the roads!
May 5, 2006 - 11:19 AM on May 5th, 2006
In some ways, this is simply mind-boggling… Kennedys drunk driving are like Scott Weiland or Bob Downey Jr. on a heroin binge….they know how it’s gonna turn out, but they do it anyway!!!
May 5, 2006 - 11:22 AM on May 5th, 2006
“Kennedys drunk driving are like Scott Weiland or Bob Downey Jr. on a heroin binge:.they know how it’s gonna turn out, but they do it anyway!!!”
May 5, 2006 - 11:28 AM on May 5th, 2006
…not saying I wouldn’t like to party with Scott and Bob!!!
:smile::smile::smile::smile::smile:
May 5, 2006 - 11:55 AM on May 5th, 2006
It says volumes about people who dismiss this as just an accident. Kennedy was lucky he didn’t kill someone this time, but to ethically challenged left, a Kennedy killing someone just doesn’t rank with the crime of a Republican in elected office.
May 5, 2006 - 12:13 PM on May 5th, 2006
no PCD..a Kennedy killing someone is pretty much business as usual.
May 5, 2006 - 12:14 PM on May 5th, 2006
“It says volumes about people who dismiss this as just an accident.”
So far, it IS just an accident, PCD.
Would you like to see the statistics on how many Americans are involved in car accidents where prescription drugs were involved?
You are 100% right, he is very lucky he didn’t hurt anyone or himself.
The accident itself isn’t the problem here, in my opinion. That the police took him home instead of jail to “sober up” might be a problem.
May 5, 2006 - 12:16 PM on May 5th, 2006
“…a Kennedy killing someone is pretty much business as usual.”
May 5, 2006 - 12:23 PM on May 5th, 2006
oh, I’m sure we can find plenty more…. bay of pigs, anyone?
May 5, 2006 - 04:33 PM on May 5th, 2006
SFL, you are 100% wrong:
“Yeah, sure, whatever – but that still doesn’t change the fact the this incident ranks lower on interest and historical scales than the vice president accidentaly shooting a man in the face.
People will be talking and learning about the Cheney accident for DECADES:who the “F”will care about some Congressman in some accident?
Not defending Pat Kennedy AT ALL, just saying responding to precious post of Roberts: “
Exactly the opposite is true. Already this is provoking a firestorm of ourtrage. The drunken/addicted son of Chapaquiddick Ted, getting elitist treatment, another crime covered up. There are so many levels here, so many issues, so many facets to this case.
This will be talked about for decades. Cheney’s hunting accident will be scarcely remembered. You are precisely, totally, and absolutely on the wrong side of this argument.
May 5, 2006 - 04:45 PM on May 5th, 2006
Kennedy vehciles have killed more people than my guns.
Don’t ban guns…ban Kennedys!
This is just another facet of the Liberal/Democrite/Socialist/Elitist Culture of Corruption that covers Washington like an evil fog.
May 8, 2006 - 11:16 AM on May 8th, 2006
I haven’t seen or heard anything negative on Kennedy in the news over the weekend.
Nice fluff piece on pain medication and addiction, that’s about it.
So far, the sh*t storm seems to have missed him entirely.
Nothing on Drudge, even…
May 8, 2006 - 11:20 AM on May 8th, 2006
Funny, the Cheney hunting accident non-story ran for two weeks.
The question is: Is the MSM automatically burying this story, or were some phone calls made? The Kennedy octopus is probably very far-reaching.
May 8, 2006 - 11:40 AM on May 8th, 2006
“The Kennedy octopus is probably very far-reaching.”
I won’t disagree with you here Robert. The Kennedy’s have an uncanny ability to wiggle out of trouble and keep their political hides intact.
May 8, 2006 - 12:01 PM on May 8th, 2006
Now, the fact that the “Sh*t storm” seems to have passed, isn’t proof to you that there is a lefty media?
judging by the reactions to Tom Delay / Kennedy in the MSM, you’d have thought that Delay ass fucked a toddler on sunday and ate the head….meanwhile you’d have thought Kennedy got busted by his wife after a weekend bender.
ridiculous