Bottoms Up for Dan Sullivan? (Updated)
30 04 2009As the mayor’s race looms near, this just landed in my inbox. It is written by former Assemblyman Allan Tesche, who served on the Assembly with Dan Sullivan.
And here’s a .pdf of the letter ==> mcginleys1
Not sure how many other inboxes were graced with this letter, but a hat tip to Phil at Progressive Alaska for being quickest on the draw.
More to come…
UPDATE: Well, this has been a hot topic! Sorry it took so long to post an update. Busy day.
Here are the court documents related to this case:
Most of the relevant information is in the third document. Here’s what we know:
On a night in early October of 2006, a 23-year old cocktail waitress at McGinley’s Pub ended her shift and proceeded to share a pitcher or more of Guinness with someone named Jennifer, and her boss, someone named Dan. She testifies that she, Dan, and Jennifer leave the bar together at 4am, hug each other (awww), and part ways.
Sometime shortly thereafter, the aforementioned cocktail waitress proceeds to drunkenly drive the wrong way down the Minnesota corridor around Westchester Lagoon and eventually causes a head-on collision with a man. Fortunately, nobody was injured. She flees the scene, and is arrested at her apartment 2 hours later by the APD, who later testified that she smelled of alcohol and was visibly drunk.
A little over a year later, on January 11th, 2008, she is found guilty of this crime, just a few weeks after Sullivan declared his candidacy for mayor.
There is no doubt that the young woman in question should not have driven her car. It sounded like she did quite a bit of fancy maneuvering to get where she did, and was extremely lucky that she didn’t end up killing herself or someone else. She should have known better. And so should her employer, who was more than twice her age, and a part-owner of an establishment that makes its money by selling alcohol. Knowing what to do with drunk people should go with the territory.
But once again, situations like this point us to the real issue – judgement. Granted that sometimes we all exhibit bad judgement. We’re only human. But we’d like to think that the people we choose to run our city (and our state for that matter) will have a better than average track record of good judgement. It makes us feel better…like our city is in good hands. Good steady hands.
So let’s put on our special glasses that let us look at someone’s actions through the lenses of good judgement. Here’s what we have. Dan Sullivan, a bar owner and employer, a manager and 59-year old family values kinda guy, is out at his establishment drinking until 4am with a young employee.
Mind you, he is not only allowing his employees to drink after bar hours, but he is participating in the drinking, and providing the alcohol.
He hugs the young lady when they leave the bar, but apparently doesn’t smell the alcohol on her that APD officers were still able to detect on her two hours later. He also doesn’t notice that she is, quote, “visibly intoxicated”. Aren’t bar owners pretty familiar with visibly intoxicated people?
There’s a solution for this, which bar owners also should be familiar with. Bar owners take note: It’s called “calling someone a cab.”
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