A North Dakota Republican lawmaker has been sentenced to serve nearly a year of unsupervised probation to pay $1,000 in fines and fees after pleading guilty to a drunken driving charge earlier this month.

Rios has said he is “seriously mulling all aspects” of his future, and plans to seek help for alcoholism, but he has made no plans to resign.

This story is a month old. I set reminders to check the outcome of interesting cases and didn’t see the result of this one until today.

Anyway, of course, a GOP POS won’t resign for behavior that would have destroyed a political career in the past. Way to go, GOP.

  • @Nurse_Robot
    5•7 months ago

    I had a $10,000 fine and 2 years of supervised probation with several drug tests a month when this happened to me 10 years ago. What do you mean this is normal?

    • @[email protected]
      2•7 months ago

      And my best friend got unsupervised probation and court costs and ordered to have a blow n go but no additional fines. Someone who had previously been on supervised probation for drug charges no less. I’ve never gotten a DUI personally so I can’t use my own anecdote.

      What I’m saying is that it’s not crazy abnormal, they plead guilty maybe there was a plea deal idk.

      Your experience also isn’t abnormal either, in fact that’s what they advertise on billboards along highways “you just blew 10000”

      All I am saying is that there was a lot of assumption and work being done to assign “this is why it happened” in that comment.

      • @Nurse_Robot
        -4•7 months ago

        Defending a racist homophobic politician who broke the law is a weird take, but you do you