Dorn’s weak moment a teachable one
I want to commend State Superintendent of Public Instruction Randy Dorn for pleading guilty to his recent DUI charge. [“School chief Dorn pleads guilty to DUI charge,” NWSaturday, April 3.]
It truly is a teachable moment and he is in a position to help young people learn from his mistake. Responsibility and accountability really need to be taken into account for those who choose to drink and drive.
— Diane Egan, Renton
School superintendent’s charge doesn’t compare to socially acceptable drinking
Randy Dorn should be admired for pleading guilty to his drunken driving charge instead of trying to “lawyer” his way out of it. However, with a blood-alcohol level of .011, it is obvious Dorn had a minimal amount to drink before driving as opposed to, say, the thousands of basketball fans who drank themselves into a stupor while watching the Final Four and then drove home.
We live in an odd society where motorists arrested for DUIs are demonized, yet our social structure almost requires club-goers, bar-hoppers and live-music fans to drink and drive.
Pop into Pioneer Square, Ballard or Capitol Hill on a weekend morning at 1:45 a.m. and witness hundreds of seriously drunk young adults slide behind the wheels of their cars and weave their way back home, with nary a cop to be found.
Instead of clucking our tongues at Dorn, perhaps we need to seriously review our beer-soaked glass houses.
— Brent Stavig, Seattle