It pays to have friends in high places when facing a drink driving charge

[freakiness]

Pete Credlin gets her case dismissed after pleading guilty of driving with .075 blood alcohol reading on budget reply night.

Source: ABC News 24

[cherry*135]

How many km's over the limit were you az? That seems to make a difference to the outcome of a review/appeal of traffic fine. If not many (<10 km), usually more successful.

[cherry*135]

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@kengillard wrote:

you should have had your solicitor write to them Az.   that works some times.

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The solicitors costs (Approx $270 p.h) would possibly be equal to or more than a fine.

[the_great_she_elephant]

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@paintsew007 wrote:

....sounds like a familiar and 'on topic' story.....our local paper recently published news that our shire finance manager and shire 2IC both got off fines/charges- one was caught driving his 4WD in a nature reserve and the other for parking in an Acrod (Austr Council for Rehabilitation of Disabled) parking bay. Not right, hey?

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OMG paints - we must be near neighbours - same local paper.

[azureline**]

We decided to try the letter, I have never had one before, so was not really a huge issue for me. The solicitor would have been overkill. I think I was 11k over but was following another relative to the airport and trying not to lose him, so trust it was correct.

[spotweldersfriend]

She was probably too soused.:-)

[spotweldersfriend]

...to campaign.

[fourandsixpants]

Yep she-lellyfants.....perhaps so!! Geez they (pollies) are rotten sometimes. What gets up my goat is how they are legally NEVER accountable due to their holding of office. I am not referring to how they blatantly make false promises or even lie verbally. Their actions I am talking about. Anything super important they will just get a Dept CEO to hold the keys.......and these CEO's usually duck for cover and hide behind public servants within their Dept

....Why do we need Govt again?

Coup is a nice sounding word

[the_great_she_elephant]

Coup is a nice sounding word

The trouble is even after a coup you have to have somebody running the show. And you know what they say : "all power corrupts, absolute power corrupts absolutely." 

For every one Nelson Mandela there are half a dozen Robert Mugabes

[lakeland27]

we unfortunately drew the mugabe. cronyism. friends and rellies and mary jo fisher.