Theodore Terbolizard, who making a quixotic bid for Congress to replace Rep. John Doolittle, was arrested early Sunday morning in Grass Valley on suspicion of drunk driving.
A congressional candidate arrested for a DUI is odd enough. Stranger still was Terbolizard's response, both in the newspaper and on his personal blog.
“It's not like the sort of Lindsay Lohan story or Nicole Ritchie (sic) story where I was driving 5 mph the wrong way on the freeway with the doors open and a car full of narcotics, it was absolutley (sic) nothing like that; no car crash or anything,” Terbolizard posted at 3:23 am this morning on his blog.
Correction: Terbolizard called to correct the time stamp on his blog. The time stamp reads 3:23 a.m., but that is in the UTC time zone, which equates to 7:23pm in California.
That came in response to a reader who wrote, “I've lost loved ones to drunk drivers and so it's a sore spot. I am glad you are alright and hope you can learn from this.”
In the Nevada County Union, Terbolizard said, "This will not affect my campaign other than giving me publicity.”
On his blog, he wrote of his arrest, “A longer version of this- including an interview with me - will be on the front page of Monday's paper. I'm going to stop by their offices and visit in person, and pick up a big stack of the papers.”
In a later comment, he added, “The press will have a hard time ignoring this.”
Terbolizard, a Republican, has described himself as a “paleo-conservative,” according to news reports, and is a supporter of Texas Rep. Ron Paul’s longshot bid for the Republican presidential nomination.
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