"I wrote here about how Douglas Gansler, Maryland’s attorney general and a candidate for governor, regularly ordered state troopers assigned to drive him to turn on the lights and sirens on the way to routine appointments, directing them to speed, run red lights and bypass traffic jams by using the shoulder. Like a teenager might do, given the opportunity.
Now, comes further evidence that Gansler is a kid at heart. From the Washington Post:
At a half-hour news conference in Silver Spring, Gansler (D) said that when he stopped by a party for graduating high school students in June, he should have been more vigilant about ensuring that the teenagers were not doing anything illegal. A photograph shows Gansler in the middle of a party scene, surrounded by young people. He said that failing to more thoroughly investigate what was going on at the party was “a mistake I made.”
Gansler claims, ludicrously, that he didn’t know that members of the young “beach week” party crowd — three of whom, a photo shows, he saw dancing on a table top — were drinking. He says, though, that “in hindsight, I probably should have assumed there was drinking and talked to the chaperons about what they thought was appropriate.”
Yeah, probably.
Ironically, Gansler, as Attorney General, has made underage drinking one of his big issues. He has harangued a beverage company for selling a fruit-flavored, high-alcohol malt beverage that he said was designed to appeal to young people. "..
