Could a DUI Arrest Help Pope Get Elected?
Richard Pope, the perennial candidate and perennial loser, figures he has a shot, so to speak, at getting elected in November. His King County Council opponent, incumbent Jane Hague (or, as she’s known in court, Miss Springman), is, as has been well-chronicled, battling the recent revelation of a June DUI arrest. Hague’s allegedly woozy drive homeward after a charity wine feed that night was a trip of political ironies: She was first spotted unable to negotiate the eastbound double lanes of the Evergreen Point Floating Bridge—whose lane expansion is one of her priorities—and she was tailed by a county deputy whose departmental budget she helped fashion as part of the council’s Budget Leadership Team. (At least she didn’t cause a mishap, considering she has in the past proposed recovering emergency response costs from any drunk driver involved in an accident.) In this case, she did no damage, except perhaps to her re-election campaign, elevating Pope’s chances as she blew between .13 an
