Bob Watson - what can you say?

That is, aside from "I didn't do it!"

Ousted Republican House Minority Leader Bob Watson (R-East Greenwich) got word that his urine tested positive for both marijuana as well as cocaine As you may recall, last April Watson was pulled over by East Haven, CT police at a sobriety check-point and was busted after failing field sobriety tests.

Police found dope in his car so Watson was busted for DUI and possession. His next week was a piece of wonderful political theatre. He claimed he wasn't under the influence but was carrying marijuana because of a medical condition, but was not a registered marijuana user under RI law. He claimed the Connecticut cops singled him out and were picking on him because he was a legislator. He said he didn't register to legally use marijuana because he was afraid (paranoid?) that someone would blab that he was a user, albeit a legal one.

 

His Republican colleagues gave him a unanimous vote of confidence, and after Watson gave a surreal speech on the floor of the House, many of his colleagues gave him a standing ovation (our own Rep. Donna Walsh did not stand). Then a week later, as I predicted, the Republicans fired him as their leader, and Watson has been reduced to waiting to see if the urine tests would give him his much prayed-for vindication.

Sorry, Bob. You were stoned. And driving. And on coke, too. And there's no legal Medical Cocaine program, not that you would ever sign up for one - the rules don't apply to you.

It's hard to do comedy on a guy who is his own self-parody, so instead I'll just heap scorn. Bob Watson is a hypocrite who, throughout his career, has mocked and vilified workers, the poor, the sick, immigrants, gays, anyone who doesn't agree with him as well as puppies and kittens. Now it is fitting that he has become, by his own arrogant actions, the object of ridicule.

Author: Will Collette