Congresswoman calls for NASCAR to suspend racer over DV accusations

Submitted by Mastodon on Sun, 2014-11-16 08:00

Story here. Excerpt:

'Representative Jackie Speier (inset), a Democrat from California, is calling on NASCAR to suspend alleged domestic abuser Kurt Busch ahead of Sunday's season-ending race at Homestead-Miami Speedway. Busch's ex-girlfriend Patricia Driscoll made the domestic violence claims in court earlier this week.

"I am disappointed to see that NASCAR and Stewart-Haas Racing have not taken any action. Your response to these serious allegations has been totally inadequate," Speier wrote in a letter to NASCAR President Mike Helton and the owners of Stewart-Haas Racing, Tony Stewart and Gene Haas, Sports Illustrated reports. The congresswoman's demands, though, didn't sit well with NASCAR Chairman and CEO Brian France.

"Two things: One is there are charges that are levied against, in this case, a driver, and then there is a judicial hearing of some sort that would come after that," France said in a press conference today, SI reports. "We're not even at the first stop yet. That's going to happen when and if charges are filed, and if charges are filed, that will change our equation, and we will look at that."
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Speier seems to disagree with that stance, asking NASCAR and SHR to "suspend Mr. Busch from this weekend's championship," – before Dover Police complete their investigation into the September incident – "and adopt a policy going forward in all domestic violence cases to suspend drivers until criminal proceedings end or there is a clear lack of evidence," SI reports.'

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... to the presumed-guilty brigade. I wonder if our elected reps even receive pocket-sized versions of the US Con'n when they move into their offices on the Hill? Not that NASCAR has the obligation *not* to suspend him for these allegations any more than they need refrain from doing so were he accused of, say, a DUI. However I'd expect a civic group like MADD to suggest a NASCAR driver be suspended if being investigated for a DUI (pretending those kinds of things are investigated rather than more on-the-spot matters), not a member of Congress. Esp. disturbing is she is presuming he is guilty, since if she genuinely presumed him innocent, she'd say leave him alone to do his job until at least such a time as he gets charged. Even then, if not in custody, he still ought to be presumed innocent until proven guilty, though suspending a high-profile employee or sport participant until the case is resolved in some situations is warranted (e.g.: a person entrusted w/ the care of others formally charged w/ endangering them, etc., in some way, should be suspended from working with said people until the allegations get resolved). But would that be a relevant kind of thing in this case? It doesn't seem like it to me.

None of the foregoing is to say he isn't guilty of the allegations. It is to say he hasn't been charged, tried, and found guilty of anything arising from them. And here in America, gee, I thought the idea of presumed innocence was held dear -- at least by our elected reps, sworn to uphold the Con'n, etc., etc. Well, some of them, maybe. Not this one.

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Submitted by Matt on Thu, 2014-11-20 01:26

Someone needs to come up with an app so congress critters could carry the Constitution around with them on their phone.

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Submitted by el cid on Thu, 2014-11-20 13:21

Congresswoman Speier is foisting the Duh-loop scam. :-/

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Submitted by MR on Thu, 2014-11-20 14:36

The gender feminist based domestic violence scam (VAWA)

witch-hunts more males

to get more statistics

to get more money and laws

to witch-hunt more males

to get more statistics...

The Duh-Loop scam is gender feminist fraud based on the lie that males are responsible for all, or almost all, violence. The "gender based violence" meme is a gender feminist based fraud, because proof beyond any doubt shows women's propensity for violence, and women's propensity for violence.

According to the U.S. Dept. of Health and Human Services and DOJ statistics, more kids are killed by neglect and abuse in a year (1,460 in 2005), than all the female intimate partner homicides in in a year (1,181 in 2005). And mothers are the single largest group of kid killers. They have a rate twice that of fathers, yet the taxpayer funded (gender feminist run) domestic violence industry would have us believe that women don't egregiously batter men too. They're lying!

As shown by HHS statistics, the age range for those child homicides is about ten times narrower than that for female intimate partner homicide, making that rate of child homicide far more concentrated. How's that for gender based violence? Where are the billions to fight against women's "gender based violence?"

Congresswoman Speier should be in prison for gender feminist based fraud, not Congress. :-/

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Submitted by MR on Thu, 2014-11-20 15:03