Delegate Who Pushed for ‘DUI’ License Plates Arrested for DUI

Original arti­cle posted here.

Label this one as either irony or poetic jus­tice depend­ing on your point of view -

SILVER SPRING, Md. —
A Maryland state del­e­gate who called for “DUI” license plates that would be issued to peo­ple con­victed more than once of drunken dri­ving has been charged with dri­ving under the influ­ence himself.

A Montgomery County police offi­cer cited Herman Taylor Jr. after find­ing him sleep­ing with his SUV idling at a 7-Eleven on New Hampshire Avenue in Silver Spring on May 1.

The offi­cer saw Taylor pull into the park­ing lot, then rest his head on the back of his seat. The offi­cer had to shake Taylor to wake him up, accord­ing to the arrest report. The offi­cer also smelled alcohol.

A trial for Taylor, a Montgomery County Democrat, is sched­uled for Oct. 24