Culture of privilege

cary_allred-ncgaI was returning home from a meeting or something an evening a week ago when I spotted a driver having trouble keeping his vehicle in his lane. A few times the vehicle wasn’t keeping speed with traffic and hugged the lane lines. This vehicle had state senate tags. I opted not to call it in, though in hindsight I probably should have.

If I fell for the aura of authority, it seems I’m not alone. Rep. Cary Allred (R-Burlington) was recently cited for driving 102 miles an hour on I-40. Yet rather than haul him off to jail like the trooper would’ve done with the rest of us peons, Trooper N.A. Mitchell let him go with a warning. Now Allred is complaining about getting a ticket days later, saying he’s been “unfairly singled out.”

Yeah, you were unfairly singled out, you moron. You should be cooling your heels in jail right now and catching the bus to the legislative sessions from there on out.

This culture of privilege is what drives me nuts about state politics. If you think our state representatives think they’re “regular folk,” you’d be mistaken.

On a totally unrelated note, have you noticed the resemblance of Cary Allred to the Ha! Ha! guy on FARK?