Fallout Over Traffic Stop Continues
News Channel 7
Wednesday, March 29, 2006

Lieutenant Governor Andre Bauer has been stopped twice for speeding, once in Laurens County, and once in Chester County where troopers say he was going 101 miles per hour in a 70 mile per hour zone, but he never got a ticket.
    
After the news came out people were calling morning radio shows like WSSL's "Ellis and Bradley" and complaining.
  
As the fallout continues over the lieutenant governor's recent traffic stops we're learning more about what happened.
  
First we told you on Tuesday that Columbia's State Newspaper asked Bauer point blank last week whether he was stopped doing 101 miles per hour in Chester County.
  
Bauer denied the stop happened, now Bauer is telling the state he denied it because it had happened a month ago and he forgot about it.  Also on video tape released by public safety Bauer is heard trying to communicate with troopers using a police radio in his state issued car.
     
Bauer identifies himself as SC-2, representing his rank among state constitutional officers.  Public Safety Director James Schweitzer says there is no official designation for the Lt. Governor as SC-2.  He also says Bauer's police radio is intended for emergency use only.
 
Bauer says he will now trim his schedule to avoid such incidents in the future mind you the Chester County stop happened after midnight.  Bauer says he was returning to Columbia after a charity event.
    
As far as any disciplinary action against the troopers involved public safety says that is a personnel issue that will not be released.
   
Andre Bauer was on the move again on Wednesday, only this time it was on foot.

Besides the one-mile walk to work, Bauer was also walking to state Republican Party headquarters in Lexington to file for re-election

This story can be found at: http://www.wspa.com/servlet/Satellite?pagename=WSPA/MGArticle/SPA_BasicArticle&c=MGArticle&cid=1137835027424&path=!home

Go Back