RANDY ECONOMY: MY WORLD: SLAMMER: Senator Roy Ashburn heading to jail after his DUI conviction. Also gets 3 years probation. W2G Roy!

Thursday, April 15, 2010

SLAMMER: Senator Roy Ashburn heading to jail after his DUI conviction. Also gets 3 years probation. W2G Roy!

SACRAMENTO, CA --

Poor Senator Roy Ashburn. 2010 has not been a good year for him.

The Bakersfield Republican State Senator will have to serve 48 hours in the Sacramento County Jail and serve three years of probation after pleading no contest to driving under the influence.

Ashburn entered his no contest plea to the misdemeanor charges Wednesday in Sacramento County Superior Court.

He will also pay fines and fees of about $2,000, attend a mandatory first offender DUI program and have his license suspended for 30 days. Ashburn was pulled over on March 3 shortly after 2 a.m. when CHP officers saw his state car driving in an erratic manner. A breath test was conducted and a subsequent blood test turned up a blood alcohol level of .15 percent. Under California law, a driver is under the influence with a blood alcohol level of .08 percent.

In the days after his arrest, the conservative lawmaker was forced "out of the closet" after it was revealed that he was gay after he got drunk at "Faces (gay) Night Club" in Sacramento before his arrest on drunk driving charges.

Ashburn is been the "butt" of late night talk show host jokes for the past month, and his jail time will surely be "plastered" all over the media once again. Opps....I made a "punny." Go get'em Roy!

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