“Democrat mayor arrested for DUI seen on bodycam demanding officers call police chief,” Fox News reported Saturday. “Lumberton, New Jersey Mayor Gina LaPlaca was seen on police bodycam video failing field sobriety test.”
Call the chief? Ah, the old “Do you know who I am?” elitism bluff. It’s not the first time we’ve seen a New Jersey politician try to pull it to escape consequences for their own infractions. Case in point: four-term Paulsboro, New Jersey Borough Councilman, Democrat Theodore D. Holloway II, who went on a “profane tirade” after being pulled over for running a stop sign:
“You actually pulled over an elected official. You’re not pulling over a random. You’re pulling over your boss. I am literally your boss. Don’t think I ain’t going to talk to [Police Chief] Gary [Kille] about this. I’m the one that hired you!”
It’s curious how the party of “equity” assumes privileges and immunities the… what did Holloway call them? – “Randoms” don’t qualify for. Like police — who are the “Only Ones” authorized to own and carry arms where you may not — those who consider themselves politically entitled exemplify nothing so much as the slogan from George Orwell’s dystopian allegory, Animal Farm:
All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others.
That goes to the heart of another Democrat paradox: They’re against the Second Amendment, the most egalitarian power-sharing arrangement ever conceived. And that’s the case with impaired elitist Mayor LaPlaca.
“Brady Endorses Gun Safety Champions for New Jersey General Assembly,” a press release from the gun grab group announced. “These Brady-endorsed gun violence prevention champions will create an even stronger majority in the General Assembly, ensuring a safer future for New Jerseyans.”
Among Brady’s “champions”: Gina LaPlaca.
Their “champion” was reported (and captured by a witness video) driving erratically. Her car “had been scratched, and the passenger side-view mirror nearly destroyed. When an officer asked what she hit, LaPlaca said she did not know.” She had her young son in a car seat in the back. To sum things up:
She was charged with endangering/abuse/neglect of a child, driving while intoxicated, reckless driving, careless driving likely to endanger, driving with an expired license and having an open container of alcohol in her vehicle.
Unsurprisingly, LaPlaca’s husband is reportedly on Facebook doing damage control amidst calls for her resignation:
“I ask that everyone keep her in their thoughts as she moves forward on her road to recovery. Please ignore the exaggerated political hyperbole and keep in mind her passion for helping others. This should not erase all the things she has accomplished for our community.”
He doesn’t want to see her career destroyed. What about the lives of American citizens that have been destroyed by those enforcing the disarmament edicts she has enabled and endorsed?
It’s not hyperbole to conclude driving blotto and hitting things she doesn’t remember endangered the life of not only her child, but of everyone in her path. It’s not hyperbole to conclude this drunk’s “passion” includes denying her countrymen’s God-given rights enshrined in a document she swore an oath to uphold.
Decent, sober people who defend against such infringements can hope LaPlaca gets the help that she needs, but ultimately, it’s up to her. Just realize that beating an alcohol dependency does not address a more destructive addiction to power and the lives ruined by that.
Why is it that we see time and again those who demand control over the rest of us can’t — or won’t — control themselves?
About David Codrea:
David Codrea is the winner of multiple journalist awards for investigating/defending the RKBA and a long-time gun owner rights advocate who defiantly challenges the folly of citizen disarmament. He blogs at “The War on Guns: Notes from the Resistance,” is a regularly featured contributor to Firearms News, and posts on Twitter: @dcodrea and Facebook.
Someone should ‘red flag’ her and have her car seized. See how the leftys like that!!
Lots of dollars to the judges favorite attorney and this becomes a citation for equipment failure. Unfortunately that’s the way it works. ESPECIALLY for the elite.
Karma’s a bitch…
This shouldn’t be surprising. She’s an “elected” official, because she takes orders, not because she has brains or morals.
I wrote politicians citations, I wrote judges citations,
Never got to write the governor a citation but then he always had a fellow trooper driving him
IMOA, she’s a politician, and she’ll survive the fallout by attending substance abuse classes, giving loads of money to substance abuse programs, admitting it was a mistake, that she won’t drink another drop of alcohol and say she’s sorry.
Inherent in progressive ideology is elitism. This is why progressives hate our Constitution and founding documents. The very idea that they, the self-appointed elite have to be judged with the rabble, the serfs, is offensive to them. Progressivism just like socialism is good for the practitioners. The vanguard gets the privileges. The working class get what crumbs are left.
Let her cool her heels in a county jail for a few months.
I believe the Mayor’s days of mayoring is over. Even in the communist state of New Jersey, driving sh!tfaced with your toddler in the car is unforgivable.
She ran to inperson treatment as mitigation thinking it would salvage her position. I don’t think so.
I may be wrong she’s a communist dimocRAT afterall. We all know how they feel about children…
Article said police found a water bottle in her car filled with alcohol, that she had been drinking.
But don’t worry, she’ll find a Democrat judge , and blame the incident on Trump and the Republicans, who will then dismiss the charges and she’ll hire a attorney to sue the person who called police about her drunk driving.
And the moron voters will re elect her by a huge margin. And she will have the city council increase her salary!
“I ask that everyone keep her in their thoughts as she moves”… to jail.
And hopefully out of politics, but with that “D” after her name, I doubt it.