{"id":47,"date":"2008-12-15T20:54:00","date_gmt":"2008-12-15T20:54:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wis-injury.com\/blog\/2008\/12\/wis-legislator-arrested-on-alcohol-pot-charges.html"},"modified":"2008-12-15T20:54:00","modified_gmt":"2008-12-15T20:54:00","slug":"wis-legislator-arrested-on-alcohol-pot-charges","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wis-injury.com\/blog\/2008\/12\/wis-legislator-arrested-on-alcohol-pot-charges.html","title":{"rendered":"Wis. legislator arrested on alcohol, pot charges"},"content":{"rendered":"Date: 12\/15\/2008 7:25 PM<br \/><br \/><br \/>MADISON, Wis. (AP) \u2014 A Wisconsin lawmaker was arrested on charges of drunken driving and marijuana possession after smashing his car into a highway sign and a snowbank, according to a report released Monday.<br \/><br \/>State Rep. Jeffrey Wood apologized Monday for acting irresponsibly, saying there was &#8220;no excuse for my actions.&#8221;<br \/><br \/>A truck driver reported Wood to police after watching his vehicle weave for several miles on an interstate highway. Wood&#8217;s car then went airborne and smashed into a caution sign and a snowbank before returning to the road, the report said.<br \/><br \/>He was arrested early Friday in south-central Wisconsin, far from the northwestern district he represents in Bloomer. His blood-alcohol content was nearly twice the legal limit, the report said.<br \/><br \/>Wood told WAYY radio in Eau Claire that he had no plans to step down.<br \/><br \/>He also told the station how marijuana ended up in his car: &#8220;Somebody offered me some and I took it, and for whatever stupid reason got in my car and decided to drive home.&#8221;<br \/><br \/>Wood was elected to the Wisconsin Assembly in 2002 as a Republican but quit the GOP this year and was re-elected as an independent.<br \/><br \/>He is due in court next month.<br \/><br \/>Copyright 2008 The Associated Press.","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Date: 12\/15\/2008 7:25 PMMADISON, Wis. (AP) \u2014 A Wisconsin lawmaker was arrested on charges of drunken driving and marijuana possession after smashing his car into a highway sign and a snowbank, according to a report released Monday.State Rep. Jeffrey Wood apologized Monday for acting irresponsibly, saying there was &#8220;no excuse for my actions.&#8221;A truck driver [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[188,187],"class_list":["post-47","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-wisconsin-legislator-drunk-driving","tag-wisconsin-legislator-marijuana"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wis-injury.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wis-injury.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wis-injury.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wis-injury.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wis-injury.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=47"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wis-injury.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wis-injury.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=47"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wis-injury.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=47"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wis-injury.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=47"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}