Jenna Nabbed for Alcohol Possession, Chelsea Gets Pass
First daughter Jenna Bush was stopped by police in Austin, Texas, early Friday morning and given a citation for illegally possessing alcohol. At 19, Bush is two years shy of the legal drinking age in Texas.
Bush was ticketed at 1:30 a.m. by police patrolling Austin's East Sixth Street, a popular destination for the city's nightclub crowd.
Bush, a freshman at the University of Texas, was not arrested.
A spokeswoman for First Lady Laura Bush answered press inquiries about the incident by saying, "We respect the privacy of this young woman and we're not going to comment on her personal life."
Former first lady Hillary Clinton has yet to comment on a report about her own daughter, Chelsea, who allegedly went on a wild spring break drinking binge in Aspen, Colo., last month.
According to Globe magazine, Secret Service agents had to intercede before the former first daughter became "sloppy drunk."
Though Miss Clinton, who turned 21 earlier this year, reportedly barhopped from one Aspen saloon to another in a visibly inebriated state, she was not cited by police for public intoxication.
The mainstream press did not report the Clinton drinking incident.
Like Chelsea, former vice president Al Gore's daughters had their difficulties with alcohol.
Gore's daughter Karenna, who is now one of her father's closest political advisers, went though her own "wild child" phase, with former high school classmates recently telling Star magazine that "she loved pot and booze bashes."
Karenna pal Anne Garofalo told Star that "Karenna was the first person you'd go to if you needed a partner in crime."
And in 1996 Gore's then-16-year-old daughter Sarah was cited for underage possession of alcohol, in an episode similar to Jenna Bush's encounter with police Friday morning.
That same year the Gores' then-14-year-old son Albert III was suspended from tony St. Albans prep school for smoking marijuana at a school dance.
The press hushed up the younger Gore's drug bust after his father personally contacted news editors and asked them to kill the story.
http://www.newsmax.com/showinsidecover.shtml?a=2001/4/27/193935 fair and unbiased media .. sure!
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