Hays County Commissioner Walt Smith's got one more week to breathe easy.
Beginning Oct. 16, if Hays County Commissionerwants to drive anywhere for the next five months, he first must exhale into a device linked to his ignition.* reported the Dripping Springs-area Republican – seeking re-election against independent candidatein November – was arrested by the Austin Police Department in 2021 for Driving While Intoxicated.
“This matter has been fairly concluded and my innocence confirmed,” Smith declared Sept 19 in a statement rife with easily disprovable lies and distortion, which nonetheless was dutifully printed verbatim, without fact-checking, by theThe Commissioner’s communiqué alluded to a recent plea deal struck with Travis County – in reality, Smith’s “innocence” had not been “confirmed” but instead he had pled to a different Class B misdemeanor, Obstruction of a Passageway, triggering nine months of...
Revelation of Smith’s arrest – and subsequent suspension of his driver’s license for failing to voluntarily prove his sobriety at the crash – shines new light on a disturbing episode months later, on Dec 31, at a Dripping Springs dive called The Barbershop. The Commissioner had been filmed by a constituent wobbling across the bar, past the restroom, roughly ten steps outside to his truck, where Smith took a piss in broad daylight, along one of the city’s most popular streets.
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