Millionaire Dave Spence acknowledges DWI arrest in 2004

Dave Spence was arrested for DUI in 2004. Why was this millionaire who owns an $8,000,000 mansion and several luxurious cars driving while tipsy? Why wasn't Suzanne Spence,  his wife, with him at the party? These are the questions that will linger in voters' minds! Spence needs to provide more information! He needs to come clean! Picture is courtesy of St. Louis Post-Dispatch. The caption is the bloggers' addition.

ST. LOUIS • Republican businessman Dave Spence, whose past and personal life will face fresh scrutiny now that he is running for governor, acknowledged this week that he was arrested seven years ago for drunken driving.

State records show that Spence, 53, had his driver's license suspended for three months after a DUI stop in July 2004. His blood-alcohol level was .120 — over the legal limit of .08.

Spence said in an interview Tuesday that he was stopped in Warson Woods after a night celebrating downtown with friends.

"I don't feel good about it, but it happened and I owned up to it and I learned a lesson and I moved on," Spence said. "That's really the one blemish on my record."

Spence said he actually used a car service to get downtown — but, after returning to his friend's home from downtown, he attempted to drive back to his own house in Huntleigh, even though he had been drinking.

"I made a mistake. I was close to home and obviously the facts speak for themselves," Spence said. "I was guilty. I felt bad about it."

Spence said he was booked by Warson Woods police, and took a taxi home from the police station.

For Missouri Republicans, Spence is not the first candidate on the 2012 ballot whose campaign roll out included explaining a DUI arrest.

Senate hopeful John Brunner — who, like Spence, is making his first run for office after a long career in business — had his license suspended after being pulled over for drunken driving in August 2004, a month after Spence's arrest.

Judging by the reaction to Brunner's drunk driving incident — neither Democrats or his GOP primary rivals made an issue of it —the political fallout from Spence's DUI could be minimal.

Meanwhile, Spence's nascent bid for governor reported its first major contributions on Tuesday: $25,000 from Daniel Creston, an executive at Spence's company, Alpha Packaging, and $100,000 from St. Louis developer William Koman. Courtesy of St. Louis Post-Dispatch

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Dave Spence, a millionaire who owns this $8,000,000 mansion and wants to be Missouri's next governor.  He is a conservative who benefited from the federal TARP when his bank took the $42,000,000 bailout  but is unable to defend his records. Mr. Spence is part of the 1% Americans who control the system at the expense of the 99% who are reeling from the effect of the recession! If elected governor he will only think of his profit and that of his opulent friends like St. Louis tycoon developer Williams Koman. Mr. Koman contributed $100,000 to Spence's campaign. You lost your job, home, health care, retirement etc or squeaking by! Is Spence the man you want in the Governor's mansion during this economic crisis?

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Spence was arrested on DUI! Was he also a party animal like his frat brother Lt. Gov. Peter Kinder? Is there more to this revelation? What was a millionaire doing by not having a designated driver? Who was he with? Where was his spouse? These are genuine campaign questions that will definitely dog millionaire Spence. 

Does Dave Spence's DUI saga remind you even remotely of Lt. Gov. Peter Kinder's "Party Animal" lifestyle?

 

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Was millionaire Dave Spence a party animal in the past like his frat brother Peter Kinder? What else isn't he telling Missouri voters? Probing continues! Stay tuned to this blog!