First Selectman Orders Police to Drive Intoxicated Man Home, Valley Independent Sentinel Reports

The Valley Independent Sentinel is reporting that First Selectman Mary Ann Drayton-Rogers asked the lone public safety officer on duty Thursday night to drive an intoxicated man home to Bridgewater from the  on Route 67 in Oxford.

Drayton-Rogers told the online newspaper she doesn't know the man and was simply trying to keep a drunken driver off the road. But her political foes are crying foul, telling the Sentinel she should have called a cab, not the police.

Former First Selectman August Palmer III - a Republican who says he's considering another run for the town's top political office against the Democrat Drayton-Rogers in November - told the Sentinel that Drayton-Rogers' decision to offer the ride home is an abuse of power.

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