{"id":4030,"date":"2013-11-21T04:30:11","date_gmt":"2013-11-21T04:30:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/highplainsblogger.wordpress.com\/?p=4030"},"modified":"2013-11-21T04:30:11","modified_gmt":"2013-11-21T04:30:11","slug":"good-luck-in-rehab-rep-radel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=4030","title":{"rendered":"Good luck in rehab, Rep. Radel"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n<p>This is going to be my final comment on the troubles of Trey Radel &#8230; unless he messes up again.<\/p>\n<p>The freshman Republican congressman from Florida has entered a guilty plea to possessing cocaine and has announced he will take a leave of absence from his office.<\/p>\n<p>http:\/\/www.politico.com\/story\/2013\/11\/trey-radel-leave-of-absence-congress-cocaine-100183.html?hp=t1_3<\/p>\n<p>Radel is going to enter rehabilitation for drug and alcohol abuse. &#8220;This is my wakeup call,&#8221; Radel said, offering no excuses for his bad behavior. He got caught trying to purchase cocaine in a federal drug sting. He blamed his crime on his addiction to booze, from which he reportedly is recovering.<\/p>\n<p>He needs to some serious counseling and rehab to shake the addiction.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s worth asking: Is he going to get paid while he&#8217;s off the clock? I suspect so, just as a lot of lawmakers who take leave of their office for one reason or another continue to receive their six-figure salary. Personally, I don&#8217;t think it&#8217;s right for him to take the money. That&#8217;s not my call, obviously. I&#8217;m not even a constituent of his; frankly, I hadn&#8217;t even heard of the guy until he got caught trying to purchase the drugs.<\/p>\n<p>Having said all that, I do wish the young man well. He&#8217;s embarrassed his family and tarnished his reputation. Get well, congressman. Come back and, for crying out, behave yourself. You&#8217;ve called for drug testing for those seeking government aid. It&#8217;s time to lead by example.<\/p>\n\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is going to be my final comment on the troubles of Trey Radel &#8230; unless he messes up again. The freshman Republican congressman from Florida has entered a guilty plea to possessing cocaine and has announced he will take a leave of absence from his office. http:\/\/www.politico.com\/story\/2013\/11\/trey-radel-leave-of-absence-congress-cocaine-100183.html?hp=t1_3 Radel is going to enter rehabilitation for &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=4030\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Good luck in rehab, Rep. Radel<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[4907],"class_list":["post-4030","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-trey-radel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4030","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4030"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4030\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4030"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4030"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4030"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}