McGavick: will this party never end?

For Democrats, it's a party that never ends.

We speak, of course, of the drunken run that Republican Senate candidate Mike!™ McGavick went on 13 years ago that got him handcuffed to a police desk and passed out in a jail cell.

Taking no callers, McGavick was on the Dori Monson Show (KIRO m-f,1-4p) today and further sullied his shoes in the road-a-muffin his past has left in his campaign's path.

It seems he'd been in an alcohol blackout that Maryland morning. 

He told Dori he didn't remember being handcuffed. You'd think a person would remember such a thing as being handcuffed, Dori said.  "I don't remember anything," said Mike!™

Being in a blackout, as we learned in July with the Conner Schierman mass murder case, is not being unconscious, but rather, in a state where no memory has been formed. The drunk actually functions, appears conscious, and acts more or less normally- but has no memory of it whatsoever.

Some experts say that experiencing blackouts is the only purely physical symptom of alcoholism. If you have them- you are an alcoholic, they say. This is not a consensus among alcohol researchers, but for sure- blackouts are a sign of very heavy drinking. There's an blackout epidemic on college campuses because of binge drinking.

Dori, we must say, asked the hard questions of McGavick, in this- and in his first interview last week where he described McGavick's state as "stinking drunk."

It was a description McGavick did not deny.

McGavick said he hasn't quit drinking, but, incredibly, that he doesn't practice zero tolerance. He drives sometimes if he's been drinking, what he believes is moderately. "I know my limits," he says.

This little self-inflicted scandal just won't go away. Over the weekend, McGavick's obfuscations and sins of omission in his original mea culpa were day-lighted by a reporter at The Everett Herald.

Mike!™ is running against partisan business as usual and gotcha politics. It's ironic that he made the mess he's mired in- Sen. Cantwell can remain senatorial and above it all. No gotchas this time.

Comments

[baba booey]

McGavick is his own worst enemy. Who needs attack ads when this guy's past is all over the TV news and the newspapers? What a schmuck...

[Ted Smith]

Mike? apparently wrote his blog confession while he was drunk. That would explain his ineptitude.

[sparky]

Well I know his intention was to get the information out before it could be used against him someway, and that is commendable. But his handlers are doing a really crappy job if they let him go on the radio and admit that he still drinks and drives. What did that accomplish???

[sparky]

I mean...when you shock Dori into temporary sanity...things are baddd

[meowtsedung]

Mike Hood is a bull. He is hung like an archbishop. he has been married to the same woman three times! Three!

[joanie]

I think people are getting a pretty good look at a slick corporate schmoozer (?) here and it doesn't look good. He's arrogant and artificial. He's gone.

I'm so happy!

[joanie]

Sparky or anyone . . . Randi was talking about Mike tonight and I missed the beginning. I think she laid out why he was gone and she was asking people to call and email the top brass. Did anyone hear what the deal is? I have a feeling it was about his agressive talk which I loved!

Geez, first Webb, now Malloy! What's a nice girl gotta do to get her bad-boy addiction met?

[sparky]

I missed it..maybe check her website? or MIke Malloy's website?

[Tommy008]

this just in- Frank Shiers , without mentioning our name ("the blog that no one dares name"!) called us "just awful" and said he doesn't even look at us anymore but that we were all "woodenheaded" and "destructive".

[starwood]

The Friday after Mike! released the info he was on Dumb & Dumber where he refused to pledge not to drive after even one drink...then even two....he kept saying he knows his limits. In the end, Dumber said: "So, there you have it, Mike! will continue to Drink & Drive"....

[joanie]

Maybe Dumber isn't so dumb . . . sometimes the simple-minded see the truth most clearly. :)

[chris]

He had to return some funny money too:

By David Postman

Seattle Times chief political reporter

Republican U.S. Senate candidate Mike McGavick has returned $14,000 in campaign contributions from employees and executives of an Alaska oil-field services company at the center of a federal investigation.

VECO, one of Alaska's most powerful political players, emerged as a focus in the investigation that became public when the FBI raided offices of Alaska lawmakers last week.

[sparky]

A whole bunch of Alaskan legislators are in trouble over VECO, including Ted "Tubes" Stevenson's son, which might be how Mike! got some of the VECO money. Google the Juneau paper and they have some good articles on the whole thing.

[sparky]

by the way, now that Bla'M has pointed out Mike!'s radio appearance on Dori's show, and both Jaimison and Connelly have come out in the Seattle papers about the funny business about VECO, and Mike! feeling he can still drink and drive....where oh where are our Virtuous Posters who claim that liberals have no values????

[coiler]

They are being hunted down by Mike Webb...

[sparky]

ohhh

[joanie]

miss 'em?

[mercifurious]

Well, looks like lucky McGavick now has a willing apologist:

Completely ignoring McGavick's continued admitted DUI'ing, Sharky opines - "It's okay to jump off a cliff as long as everyone else is doing it"

Nice. Does Sharky know the possible intoxication affects from rim-jobbing a drunk?

[Mike Barer]

We can't really attack him while Bobbi Bridge represents us on the State Supreme Court.

[sparky]

Yes we can

[blathering michael]

it's the manipulation, stupid- not the drunk driving.

[Tommy008]

Breaking News-(T-8 News Service) Eddie Haskell Fails to Qualify His Anti-roads Initiative for the Fall Ballot. An angry Eddie Haskell was given the news from Principal Howard Schmoe of Eastern High School. Haskell immediately stormed out of school and peeled rubber out of the parking lot in his 1958 Chev jalopy.

[coiler]

He later became a LAPD motor officer. Ironic huh?

[sparky]

And rumor has it that he is especially endowed and was photographed for Playgirl magazine...

[joanie]

Barer: We can't really attack him while Bobbi Bridge represents us on the State Supreme Court.

You a hit-and-run driver yourself? This little post is beneath you . . . way too simple-minded.

[coiler]

Mike "otis campbell" McGavick now down 17 points...
http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/local/284751_senate12.html

In the wake of news reports contradicting aspects of McGavick's DUI confession, Cantwell has surged to a 17percentage-point lead over him in a new survey of Washington voters taken Sept. 6 by Rasmussen Reports, a national, independent polling firm..

"The first election poll in Washington since the (DUI) story broke shows ... Cantwell leading 52 percent to 35 percent," the Rasmussen Reports Daily Snapshot said in a sketchy, preliminary report Monday.

It noted that in a poll 22 days earlier, "Cantwell's lead was down to 6 percentage points."

[sparky]

The recent revelation that he did not win any track meets in high school and there was no such thing as a national track competition is just more digging in this hoe he seems bent on creating.

The other night I saw a commercial where he admitted to breaking a window with his runaway skate board..Im not sure why he feels the need to point out all the destructive stuff he has done and how he would have preferred to just walk away without taking responsibility--but his mom made him fess up. How does that instill confidence in the voters???

Put the shovel down, Mike!!!