Sheldon Killpack (R-BadMormon, Utah)
Claims to fame: Former Utah state senator (2003-10); state senate majority leader (2008-10); Mormon; drunk driver; hypocrite to the nth degree
Moral apex: Arrested January 15, 2010, on a DUI. Quit the state senate the next day. Waited more than year to plead guilty (on January 19, 2011).
Some “punishment”: Forty-eight hours’ community service and a couple of DUI classes.
Of course: You already know that drinking alcohol is absolutely verboten for Mormons. Never mind that Killpack tried to wiggle out of this hard-and-fast Mormon law with the slimiest sort of moral relativism, telling the Deseret News that his drinking was merely “an occasional, social thing.” (Gee, Your Honor, I only knocked over one bank — it’s not like I robbed every single bank in the country or anything!)
But that’s not what makes Sheldon Killpack a hypocrite to the nth degree — this is: Killpack’s father was killed by a drunk driver when Killpack was a kid.
What’s more: Killpack made a crusade of pushing for stronger drunk-driving laws in Utah.
Interesting tidbit: Riding shotgun with Killpack when he was busted was former Republican Utah state Rep. Mark Walker, who, Deseret tells us…
…resigned in 2008 in the midst of an investigation into whether he attempted to bribe an opponent in the state treasurer’s race.Walker pleaded guilty to a misdemeanor election law violation in connection with the case and became a lobbyist. He was recently hired by West Valley City as a business development manager but quit Friday, just six days after starting…
…citing the ol’ reliable “personal reasons.” Hmmm.
Anyway, when Killpack was stopped, he and Walker were leaving a fundraiser for Republican (and Mormon, of course) Greg Hughes. (There was no booze at the event; various reports indicate Killpack stopped at a bar.)
Suggested Doctrine and Covenants reading for Mr. Killpack:
That inasmuch as any man drinketh wine or strong drink among you, behold it is not good, neither meet in the sight of your Father, only in assembling yourselves together to offer up your sacraments before him.And, behold, this should be wine, yea, pure wine of the grape of the vine, of your own make.
And, again, strong drinks are not for the belly, but for the washing of your bodies.
— D&C 89:5-7
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