Let’s us Upper Carolinians feel all superior about our brand of state government official:
Lt. Gov. Andre Bauer was stopped twice for speeding in the last four months — once for going 101 miles per hour in his state car — but wasn’t issued a citation, state records show.
Bauer last week denied to a reporter for The Greenville News that he had been stopped for speeding by the Highway Patrol.
A citation should have been issued in the 101-mph case, said James K. Schweitzer, director of the South Carolina Department of Public Safety, which houses the Highway Patrol. He said he has since issued a memo to the agency warning troopers that an enforcement action decision shouldn’t be based “on the driver’s status as a public official or prominent official.”
At least Mike Easley confines his racin’ to race tracks, which is a good thing considering how he drives on them. Then again, maybe it is worth an LG tearing around the interstates to have South Carolina’s lower taxes. Hmmm.
