Re: Radio Personality suing police

["Dan Billings" <dib9@gwi.net>]

----- Original Message -----
From: "Cooper Fox" <fox893@yahoo.com>
To: <Dib9@aol.com>; <boston-radio-interest@bostonradio.org>
Sent: Friday, January 25, 2002 1:39 PM
Subject: Re: Radio Personality suing police

> When i was back in college we actually had a
> discussion about this case in my Business Law class.
> Apparently, she had had a few maritnis over the course
> of the evening, was driving erratically, was pulled
> over, and refused to co-operate with the officer who
> ad stopped her.  He smelled alchohol....  Ya get the
> picture..

That's the story of her first arrest, which lead to her departure from WGAN,
and is not the arrest that involved in her suit.

After her first arrest, Lamarche gave her notice at WGAN without telling
management about her arrest.  A few days later, the story came out and
became a big subject of discussion on WGAN.  She then tried to rescind her
resignation and management would not take her back.

Her lawsuit stems from a drug driving arrest in Brewer, which happened in
1999.  Ironically, her lawyer is Tom Connelly, who was the Democrat
candidate for Governor in 1998 when Lamarche was the Green Party candidate
for the same office.  Connelly is also the man who leaked the information
about George W. Bush's drunkdriving arrest just days before the 2000
election.

Lamarche claims that she can not use her real name in her radio job because
of her drunk driving arrests.  I think that has more to do with a country
music station not wanting to have their morning co-host associated with a
fringe political party.  I suspect that Green's make up a very low
percentage of B-98.5's target audience.

-- Dan Billings, Bowdoinham, Maine