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My brush with the law

Fri Oct 13, 2006 at 11:11:44 AM PDT

Thirty years ago, when I was an 18 year old high school senior, I was arrested for breaking and entering.  Two 17 year old friends of mine climbed up a fire escape to go through an open window to get into a college dorm where he'd heard there was a party, despite my screaming at them that they were going to get in trouble.  A security guard heard this and decided they were burglars and I was the lookout. No theft was intended, the only crime was stupidity. As the only one over 18, only I was charged. The prosecutor who got the case agreed that it was bogus and the whole thing was later expunged from the record, but I had to go before a judge.  

Neverthess, it is possible that somewhere, there exists a notebook with my name in it, ready to be found should I ever decide to enter politics.

Folks, we can kick Felix's butt without trolling the courthouses to find out whether he got in trouble in college.   I don't think that everything about a politician's life is necessarily the public's concern, and trouble in college is particularly irrelevant.  We've already got macaca, the noose, and tons of other stuff, sufficient to drive this guy into retirement.  Let's not set the precedent that DailyKos is about going through garbage cans and the like.

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