Attorney rips congresswoman for NASCAR letter

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'Kurt Busch's attorney lashed out in response to a California congresswoman lobbying NASCAR and Stewart-Haas Racing to suspend Busch for the season finale Sunday at Homestead-Miami Speedway.

Rep. Jackie Speier, D-Calif., wrote a letter to NASCAR and the race team and issued a news release requesting that Busch be suspended over allegations of domestic assault by Busch’s former girlfriend, Patricia Driscoll.
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“If every time somebody made an allegation against a congresswoman or a congressman, and they were then to be suspended from their office until the investigation was concluded, we’d have an empty Capitol building,” Busch lawyer Rusty Hardin said in a phone interview with Sporting News.

“While that might please the public to have that building be empty, it certainly wouldn’t be fair to the person the charge or allegation was made against.”
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Driscoll, the daughter of a former congressman and executive director of the Armed Forces Foundation, has used her contacts to start a media campaign against Busch, Hardin said.

“We’re not going to participate in it, we’re not going to try every charge (in public),” Hardin said. “But when a congresswoman sends a letter like this, I feel compelled to remind everybody we still have due process and presumption of innocence in this country even if she doesn’t recognize it.”'