It seems every time republicans get in trouble or run afoul from the law, they have a very good talent of then becoming the victim. The party of “personal responsibility” never is! Witness the latest example: Randy Hopper!
Gov. Scott Walker’s collective bargaining bill has been blamed for a lot of stuff, but here’s a new one.
In tearful testimony, former state Sen. Randy Hopper explained at his OWI trial on Thursday that he thought county workers were out to get him when he was pulled over and arrested for drunken driving, according to a story and video by the Fond du Lac Reporter.
Hopper, 46, is charged with drunken driving, operating left of the center line and refusing to take a test for intoxication after arrest. He was pulled over on Oct. 16 while he and his girlfriend, Valerie Cass, were driving back from a Green Bay Packers game.
He did nothing wrong, he only had a couple beers but everyone in the state was out to get him.
On the stand, the former Fond du Lac Republican said he believed he passed his field sobriety tests but began questioning the motives of the officer, Deputy Nicholas Venne, after he was arrested, the Fond du Lac Reporter.
“I don’t have a lot of faith and trust in Officer Venne at this point because it seemed to me that he was out to get me,” Hopper testified. “There are a lot of people who work in the county that have never met me personally that have sent me some of the most vile messages you have ever seen, sir.”
The Reporter also said:
He then explained that he did not take a preliminary breath test at the Fond du Lac County Jail because county employees have threatened him repeatedly.
“The day everything broke lose in Madison, I had members of the union in my office who said, ‘If you don’t support us, we are going to destroy your life,’” Hopper said. “We’re going to picket your kids’ schools, we’re going to tear apart your reputation, we’re going to have you recalled.”
The only problem with his testimony? It wasn’t true:
Sheriff Mick Fink said any conspiracy theory that members of his office were out to get Hopper is “bizarre.”
“I don’t know where that (Hopper’s allegation) is coming from,” Fink said.
Fink said his office even supplied protection for Hopper when the former senator was concerned about his safety following the public’s backlash on budget repair bill and collective bargaining issue.
I will admit though many people did say some vile things and make many threats this past year!
Most people don’t have $10,000s to spend on an attorney to demand a trial.
This guy almost killed a then-eighteen-year-old girl and her father; and now spouts that it’s their fault because the father belongs to a union? What?!!
And this crap about all County employees and the Sheriff being out to get him? The problem is Hopper might actually believe it.
Hopper is not popular in Fond du Lac and Oshkosh, that’s for sure.
It’s because of his self pity and narcissistic personality disorder that Hopper believes any accoutability and sense of personal and community responsbility do not apply to him. Hopper is entitled to live free of consequences, and use his former office in service to the Koch brothers.
Get it, Hopper? The law applies to you just like everybody else.
Happy to read this poor example of a man was recalled and booted out of office.
I don’t think he was driving drunk, he was flying an airplane! it is Fond du Lac after all.
Well, Republicans’ favorite holiday is coming up in 2 weeks – Good Friday. Because we all know how much GOPs love to say how they’re being crucified.
Man up Randy. You’ve got no one to blame but yourself for your failed political and personal existence. Another class-act GOP sociopath.
Harper’s agitation comes directly from the email letters of Mark Mix, Right To Work propagandist, who’s message of “union thugs” and “union threats” and “forced dues” and “union violence” goes out weekly to anyone, Opt-in or not, who will open the vituperation. I wouldn’t even give Randy Harper the credit for thinking that garbage up.