Wonkette

Ex-Congressman Robert Roe of New Jersey, whose record of hitting family vans while drunkenly driving motorcars got a highway dedicated to him, is requesting that the Jersey government rescind the naming legislation. This request would’ve been useful before the legislature and governor drafted and passed the legislation. And why is he turning down this honor anyway — he’d get a highway, and people would chill after a month or two. Is he drunk again? [Daily Record]

One night in 1993, then-Congressman Robert Roe of New Jersey, with a .17 blood-alcohol level, “veered out of his lane in Rockaway Township and ran head-on into a minivan carrying a family of three.” For this service to his country, the New Jersey state government recently renamed a highway after him. Congratulations to drunk ex-Congressman Robert Roe of New Jersey, America’s Highway Hero! MORE »