A North Dakota Republican lawmaker has been sentenced to serve nearly a year of unsupervised probation to pay $1,000 in fines and fees after pleading guilty to a drunken driving charge earlier this month.

Rios has said he is “seriously mulling all aspects” of his future, and plans to seek help for alcoholism, but he has made no plans to resign.

This story is a month old. I set reminders to check the outcome of interesting cases and didn’t see the result of this one until today.

Anyway, of course, a GOP POS won’t resign for behavior that would have destroyed a political career in the past. Way to go, GOP.

  • @prettybunnys
    12•7 months ago

    I’ve been arrested for resisting/interfering with arrest (because they had nothing else to get me on) because I used my words to advise someone else being arrested that their rights are being violated.

    I know my dude, I’m with you and 100% it could go terribly other places.

    Your arguments about what could happen to other folks are perfectly cromulent HOWEVER as much as your arguments fit with my worldview it doesn’t mean this guy was let off especially easy.

    I do wish he’d gotten a taste of what the rest of us and especially those of color have to face however.

    I agree with you wholeheartedly deeply in my core, emotionally I’m on the same page as you.