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Georgia State Rep. Kip Smith, alleged drunk driver who lives on the taxpayer's dime, wants to make sure people who live on the taxpayer's dime don't smoke pot.

Georgia State Representative John Andrew (“Kip”) Smith was arrested last Friday in Buckhead on a charge of driving under the influence. According to the Atlanta Journal-Constitution, the Republican legislator was pulled over by police after allegedly running a red light after leaving a local restaurant.

The police officer who pulled over Rep. Smith smelled alcohol and asked Smith if he’d been drinking.  First he said “no,” then claimed he’d had one beer 45 minutes earlier.  When the officer asked Smith to blow into a breathalyzer, he refused, asking instead to be tested at a hospital.  When the officer explained that only happens after an arrest, Smith relented and blew into the device, registering a blood-alcohol content of .091, over the per se limit of .080.

Smith again changed his story to say he’d had the beer 15 minutes, not 45 minutes, earlier.  Police then say Smith failed two field sobriety tests.  After being placed under arrest, Smith blew twice more into the breathalyzer, measuring .099 and .100.

According to most DUI tables, a 180 lb. man would need three beers and a 240 lb. man would need four beers to register a .100.  That’s a figure that decreases by .01 for every forty minutes after drinking, by the way.  Even a 100 lb. woman after one beer would only be at a .070.

If the name “Rep. Kip Smith” rings a bell for readers of this blog, it is because he was one of six who co-sponsored House Bill 464, “to require random drug testing for recipients of certain public assistance.”  The sponsor, Republican Rep. Jason Spencer, had said of the proposed testing, “Georgia taxpayers have a vested interest in making sure their hard-earned tax dollars aren’t used to subsidize drug addiction.”

Wait, aren’t hard-earned Georgia tax dollars paying Rep. Smith’s salary?  What will Georgians think of subsidizing drunk drivers who lie to the police?  Or is drug addiction only reprehensible when it’s poor people using non-liquid drugs?

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We have been reporting for the last few years about different politicians from Florida to Washington who have proposed drug testing citizens who were applying for welfare benefits, from housing subsidies, to food stamps and in my home state of Oregon, even domestic violence victims.

Last month a Democratic state Representative from Georgia introduced a bill that would require the local legislature to pee in a cup as well. He said he was struck by the number of bills in 2011 to require welfare applicants to submit to drug testing. He is not for drug testing, But Rep. Scott Holcomb introduced the bill to bring some attention to it. He said he was struck by just how awful it was that some of his Republican colleagues were targeting welfare recipients and applicants for drug testing.

Rep. Holcomb isn’t the first to introduce a bill to protect citizens against legislating under the influence, but he is the latest. He said he thought of writing the bill when he was watching a constituent who was annoyed with a Republican welfare-testing bill ask a TV reporter, “Ho do we know you aren’t on drugs?”. He said, well, they don’t. So far, just Florida is the only place where the state government got a welfare drug test bill to pass, but thankfully it was ruled a violation of the state constitution’s ban on unreasonable search and seizure just four months later.

In the four months that Florida did drug test welfare recipients, only 2.5 percent tested positive for an illicit substance. Florida Governor Rick Scott who pushed the drug testing bill in his state said he would be willing to submit to testing. In December, before Rep. Holcomb introduced his drug testing bill for the Georgia legislature, a bill by fellow Georgia politician,  Rep. Jack Kingston was introduced to congress to ask all the states to drug test applicants before awarding unemployment benefits. That bill was passed by the US House of Representatives, but failed in the Senate

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