NY Republican Assemblyman Busted with Pot While Speeding

**Dawg** · 03-15-2013, 10:05 PM

New York Assemblyman Steve Katz
is the Putnam County politician who just last year voted down a bill to
legalize medical marijuana in New York. Now fast forward to yesterday
at 10 a.m., when Katz was pulled over for doing 80 in a 65
on I-87. The officer who pulled Katz over reportedly smelled pot in the
car, at which point he discovered that Katz had a small bag of weed in
his possession. It's too bad Katz, who is a Republican, is so
anti-marijuana in his professional life, because he sounds like he'd be a
blast to smoke a joint with. According to the Wall Street Journal, he's got some wonderful stories from his former career as a vet: This
is not Mr. Katz's first brush with the law. A veterinarian by training,
he revealed last year that he had two prior arrests for illegally
dumping the body of a dead dog and an alleged attack on a dog in his
care. Both cases were ultimately dismissed. In an interview last year with City and State
newspaper, Mr. Katz said he agreed to dispose of a deceased German
Shepherd as a favor to an elderly patient and dumped the body only after
the clinic that was supposed to receive it was locked. The corpse, he
explained, had started to liquefy in his car. "It was starting to ooze on my daughter's Barbie doll collection," he said.

The
second arrest came after a Chihuahua he was treating at his veterinary
clinic bit him and the dog fell to the floor when he tried to shake him
off, Mr. Katz told the newspaper. The dog's owners pressed charges, and
Mr. Katz described the Chihuahua as "meaner than a dirt snake."

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