Anti-Pot Republican Steve Katz NY Busted with Bag of Pot While Speeding Down the Interstate

[DonRedwood]

Last edited Fri Mar 15, 2013, 10:39 PM - Edit history (5)

Oh hell everybody...this is just too damned good to believe. Happy weekend.

"Behold, another hypocritical politician for us to laugh at."



"New York Assemblyman Steve Katz is the Putnam County politician who just last year voted down a bill to legalize medical marijuana in New York. Now fast forward to yesterday at 10 a.m., when Katz was pulled over for doing 80 in a 65 on I-87. The officer who pulled Katz over reportedly smelled pot in the car, at which point he discovered that Katz had a small bag of weed in his possession.

It's too bad Katz, who is a Republican, is so anti-marijuana in his professional life, because he sounds like he'd be a blast to smoke a joint with. According to the Wall Street Journal, he's got some wonderful stories from his former career as a vet:

This is not Mr. Katz's first brush with the law. A veterinarian by training, he revealed last year that he had two prior arrests for illegally dumping the body of a dead dog and an alleged attack on a dog in his care. Both cases were ultimately dismissed.

In an interview last year with City and State newspaper, Mr. Katz said he agreed to dispose of a deceased German Shepherd as a favor to an elderly patient and dumped the body only after the clinic that was supposed to receive it was locked. The corpse, he explained, had started to liquefy in his car."" (which upset him because it soiled his Barbies!! These are my words, not the article...since we can only post four paragraphs I had to paraphrase that the oozing dog soiled the Barbies in his possession)

THERE IS MORE AT THE LINK.... Good Lord. Thank you Republicans. I needed a belly laugh and you are fools enough to provide it.

http://gawker.com/5990835/anti+pot-new-york-assemblyman-busted-with-pot-while-speeding-down-the-interstate

[DonRedwood]

1. edited to add he is a republican...'cause that's the funniest part.

[Lionessa]

2. Uhm....

Y'know I use the cruise control if I've smoked at all before/during driving... not because I speed but because pot makes me so laid back I start puttering instead of driving. I'd be going 45 in a 65 as my foot just gets way laid back. Interesting. But I guess too, I only am even a hint stoned while driving if I'm on a long drive on a lonely road usually very late night or early morning as I prefer taking long drives like that overnight rather than during the daytime. I've notice drinking seems to make people speed more than toking does.

[DonRedwood]

5. Hmmmmm....maybe time to make a meme.

[DonRedwood]

8. VIOLA...edited

[Jackpine Radical]

15. Hey, man, am I driving OK?

[Lionessa]

23. ROFL.

[kudzu22]

3. Maybe he just wanted to demonstrate how easy it is to obtain

and was just about to turn it in to the police.


Rrrriiiigggghhhtt.......

[DonRedwood]

4. and the liquified dog?

This guy sounds like a real piece of work.

[Life Long Dem]

6. Would be nice to hear

Katz: "I am confident that once the facts are presented that this will quickly be put to rest."

[DonRedwood]

7. I want to see this on the news!

[Scruffy Rumbler]

9. I heard it on the Albany, NY public radio station.

I laughed.

[DonRedwood]

20. welcome to du scruffy

is the guys career ruined?

[Scruffy Rumbler]

29. Thanks for the welcome.

If he was a Democrat, I would say yes! But he is Republican, so who knows!

[Curmudgeoness]

10. OMG, I needed that laugh.

That is one of the funniest things I have seen in a long time....and I have gotten some pretty funny emails lately!



What's good for the goose is good for the gander-----lock him up, Danno. The hypocrisy is more than I can stand.

[Phlem]

11. the poster child for

GOP Hypocrisy.

These fuckers birth children and vote. Talking about ruining the next generation.

-p

[progressoid]

27. ANOTHER poster child for GOP hypocrisy.

That poster would be covered with hundreds of GOP faces.

[sangsaran]

12. "(which upset him because it soiled his Barbies!!)"

Why did you feel the need to insert this misleading bit?

[geologic]

14. You prefer OOZE???

"It was starting to ooze on my daughter's Barbie doll collection," he said.

[DonRedwood]

16. Since I do not want to be accused of yellow oozing journalism I have edited my post

to point out why I paraphrased and I added quotation marks on the article.

[idwiyo]

13. Ha ha ha ha ha OMG, this must be an article from Onion, surely?

[DonRedwood]

21. real life and the onion just merged my friend.

they have become one.

[idwiyo]

28. That's the problem. It's like living in Twilight Zone most of the time, trying to figure how someone

could be so spectacularly hypocritical and stupid to believe they can get away with it.

[Historic NY]

17. Unfortunately marihuana hasn't been shown to alleviate GOP hypocrisy....

one has to manually pull their heads out of their asses.

[DonRedwood]

26. that's not his ass.... that's his bong

[ThoughtCriminal]

18. I'm sure he was "just holding it for a friend"

planning to get rid of it to help them quit.

Yeah, that's it!

[spanone]

19. k&r...

[Rozlee]

22. Being cruel to dogs seems to be a Republican trait.

I would've bitten him too. Or not. I hope the Chihuahua didn't catch anything from him.

[DonRedwood]

25. rabies

[Marie Marie]

24. Oh this is too precious...

[colsohlibgal]

30. Those Who Protest Too Much

Just as with this, it is hard not to speculate about the most ardent anti gay politicians, that it could well be self loathing coming forth.