February 23, 2012 09:08 PM UTC

We Don't Have Time For Laura Bradford Today

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• by: Colorado Pols

Nevertheless, FOX 31’s Eli Stokols reports:

In an Internal Affairs report released Wednesday, Officer Brian Klaus said that Bradford, R-Collbran, initially said she’d only had one glass of wine, but later admitted to having had three glasses after Klaus informed her what he believed her BAC to be.

Bradford, who was temporarily relieved as her position as chairwoman of a House committee and then threatened to switch her party affiliation in response, was never given a breathalizer test when she was stopped near the Capitol on the night of Jan. 25.

Had she been given a test, and blown anything over the legal limit of 0.08, she’d have been arrested…

Initially, Denver Police alleged that Bradford had invoked “legislative immunity” and gotten out of a possible DUI – she was instead sent home in a taxi – because of an antiquated statute that prevents police from arresting lawmakers during the legislative session.

A week after the incident, DPD held a press conference to admit that Bradford had not asked for special treatment.

Courtesy 9NEWS, here are the documents released yesterday, statements from the two officers involved in Rep. Laura Bradford’s traffic stop January 25th. Although an image problem for Rep. Bradford, who claimed right after being cleared that she never had been legally drunk anyway–making you wonder what she apologized to the House for–it doesn’t really matter what the police’s “estimate” of Bradford’s blood alcohol content (BAC) may have been. She wasn’t admissibly tested. Denver Police spokesman Matt Murray says further that no resolution has been reached in the investigation of differing statements from these two officers–one of which alleges that Rep. Bradford did at least signal her awareness of legislative immunity, while the other alleges she didn’t want it. To be honest, the more it’s repeated, the more we wonder if the two are really mutually exclusive: think “I don’t want special treatment,” said with a smile.

But whatever, folks. She’s Frank McNulty’s problem now.