Sen. Kerry’s Daughter Arrested On DUI Charge

By The WBUR Newsroom
Nov 19, 2009, 12:42 PM
14 Comments

Alexandra Kerry BOSTON — Sen. John Kerry’s oldest daughter has been arrested in Hollywood on drunk driving charges.

Alexandra Kerry, 36, was stopped around 12:40 a.m. Thursday and tested for driving under the influence. She was booked at the Hollywood police station and released five hours later after posting $5,000 bail.

Kerry has produced documentaries and had several small acting roles. In 2008 she co-produced a documentary about Iranian men choosing to get their sex changed. She also wrote a book about working on her father’s 2004 presidential campaign.

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Mike

I’m not really sure how this is news. I think this type of thing is best left for commercial media.
jo

Looks like the Kerry’s want to match the Kennedy’s for most family drunks.
nate

you pledge dollars at work, not even close to relevant news.
Marcel

had to also chime in and say “how is this news?”
jep

Come on WBUR-If you choose to waste a reporter, time and energy on this kind of journalism, I will not support WBUR. So disappointed.
http://chelseama.gov Karen Budrow

Just not interested in such news unless she were currently running for office or serving in office. As is, not newsworthy.
Aron

Enough of the attitude people, this is news–anything affecting the family of a US senator is news in his home state. Besides, WBUR wastes no reporting resources on this, this all comes in through news feeds and goes online with nothing more than an editor’s finger pushing a button.
kwame Amoako

This shouldn’t be a news for us. DUI is she and her family matters and shouldn’t be shared as she is not running for public office. Many public servants with such records even get elected without a problem….every one visit the devil sometime in their lives so keep it off the news.
Lynn, Massachusetts

This needs to be updated, charges have been dropped, her blood alcohol content was .06, not .08, which is the legal limit in Massachusetts.

http://www.allheadlinenews.com/articles/7017096241?Alexandra%20Kerry's%20DUI%20Charge%20Dropped
Brian VanLaarhoven

I think that once again the politics of Washington impact the decision to charge a person with drunk driving. I lived in California for a year and I can tell you that anyone else would have been charged with drunk driving. It does not matter that 0.08 is the DUI rule in Massachusetts, in California she was DUI and should have been charged. The double standard of politicians pulling strings because they are above the law must stop. We cannot have two laws, one for the average person that is NOT a millionaire politician and one for those that are. Booker Dano!
Thomas

SHE SHOULD BE CHARGED WITH DUI. HOW DOES SEN. KERRY represent law and then allow his DAUGHTER to not be SUBJECT TO THE LAW that EVERYONE else must adhere to.
CHEAT, LIE, CORRUPT POLITICIANS….I HATE KERRY!!! He is a PHONEY!!! I want him OUSTED out of his SEAT!!!
Jim Pennock

Thomas, stop yelling, I am right here.
Please don’t give into the hate.
All politicians are like that unless you voted for them.
Jim Pennock

This is from the LA Times 23 Nov 2009: The decision was made based on lack of evidence, said Frank Mateljan a spokesman for the L.A. city attorney’s office.

“Our folks took a look at the report that was sent over by the LAPD, and after a review of all the evidence we felt there was insufficient evidence, so we declined to file on this matter,” Mateljan said.
What would you do?
Book because she is a politicians daughter despite dubious evidence?
Cost taxpayers yet more money (California has plenty) because you “hate Kerry”?
What would you do for your daughter?
Evidently Kerry did not though I would if I
could and hope we all would to.
http://www.la-criminal-defense.com/dui/ DUI Lawyer

On what evidence do some of you think that she was above the law, or she had favorable treatment? I do not know the case, but I’m confident in our justice system and I’m sure she got the right verdict. When a news like this hits the media many people assumes that shes guilty, just because she’s the daughter of a senator? Does this mean that any relative of public figures does not deserve the presumption of innocence?