-- Video from TheState.com: Bauer stopped in Laurens County

-- Video from TheState.com: Bauer stopped in Chester County

COLUMBIA - Lt. Gov. Andre Bauer, who has had some run-ins with S.C. law enforcement in years past, was stopped at least twice in the past four months for speeding along the state's highways and no tickets were written.

During the most recent stop, the Highway Patrol clocked Bauer driving 101 mph in a 70 mph zone. He wasn't issued a ticket or a warning. Video and audio recordings, which are made by cameras mounted in patrol cars, of the stops were obtained by The Associated Press through a Freedom of Information Act request.

Bauer, 37, said Tuesday he was driving in a pack of cars Feb. 25 and did not realize how fast he was going. He said the officer never told him his speed.

"There's no excuse for me driving that fast," he said. "I've got a lead foot, there's no question. I'm embarrassed if I was going that fast."

Bauer said it was almost midnight and he was driving home from a charity event in Rock Hill.

Bauer said he never asked for or expected preferential treatment.

The state Public Safety Department, which is over the Highway Patrol, said Bauer made it clear to authorities that he was the lieutenant governor during police radio transmissions before troopers caught up to him.

That night, Bauer pulled over along Interstate 77 in Chester County after troopers observed him driving over 100 mph on a wet highway. In the video of the stop, a trooper stops next to Bauer's state-issued car, rolls down his window and asks the lieutenant governor his name.

"Did you not hear me on the radio?" Bauer asks. "I called in."

When the trooper again asks for his name, Bauer identifies himself as "SC Two."

The trooper then says, "You have a good night, sir," and the video ends.

Public Safety Director James Schweitzer said the governor, for example, is known as "SC One" and that troopers assumed "SC Two" was Bauer's code for lieutenant governor.

Bauer said he identified himself as "SC Two" not for preferential treatment but rather to let officers know who he was so they would not be worried about approaching him.