Here Come Da Drunks! V. 27.0 - #329

#329 STATE SEN. GREG BARKAS
MONTANA STATE SENATOR

Wow. It's been more than four months since our latest shitfaced GOP Cocksucker. The last one was #108 (EUGENE MAYSKY) a former mayor in Pennsylvania and Type II (The Repeat Offender) drunk.

Classification: Type VIII (Drunken BOATER); Type II (Repeat Offender)
Object Hit: The shore.

Scut Farkas... I mean, Greg Barkas, (Nothing like 'A Christmas Story' reference to go over the heads of the GOP Cocksuckers) got indicted on one count of criminal endangerment and two counts of negligent vehicular assault today, sez the Flathead County Sheriff's office. [UPDATE 1/28/2010: Scut was indicted on some federal felony charges on 1/27/2010]

Normally that means trouble with cars but in this case, it means Scut and his BOAT both got smashed; Scut by scotch and red wine and the boat by the rocky shoreline of Flathead Lake.

Passengers on the boat said Scut was at an 'end of the summer' party at the Docks Restaurant in Lakeside MT. Scut said all he had was a couple of beers with dinner but a squealer....I mean, his chief of staff...said he had a couple of scotches before drinking red wine the rest of the night. [UPDATE: One of the waitresses said the same thing.]

Scut was so 'faced that 1 hour and 45 minutes after the accident, when he had to face the Breathalyzer, bane of GOP Cocksuckers everywhere, he blew a .16. Whoa! That's TWICE the legal limit. Scut really knows how to pah-tay!

This would be mildly amusing were it not for the consequences. Rep. Rick Rehburg (known for getting hammered himself and falling off horses in foreign countries) got a shattered ankle in the boat crash and even more tragically, his state director, Dustin Frost, got a severe head injury. [UPDATE: Frost survived after being in a coma for 10 days but left the hospital almost a month after the accident with a severe brain injury.]

Scut is going to be arraigned in two to three weeks. This is not the first time he's had problems with the Sauce. In the summer of 2004 he was arrested for reckless driving after being yanked over for suspicion of drunk driving. Before you feel TOO bad for Scut and his broken pelvis, keep in mind Rehburg's shattered heel and the fact that Frost was saved by campers in the area and now has to work to regain what doctors refer to as "higher brain functions" so he can come back to work. He also put his own wife and chief of staff in the hospital.

[UPDATE: Scut had felony charges (criminal endangerment and two counts of negligent vehicular assault) filed against him January 27, 2010. Each one carries a penalty of 10 years in the Pokey along with significant fines. Scut has 11 months left on his current term and is term limited.]

Courtesy of TPM Muckraker, The Flathead Beacon website, the Flathead County Sheriff's Department, the Great Falls Tribune, Roll Call and the blogs 4&20 Blackbirds and the Huffington Post.

S. Olson