College Paper: Sweeney Was DrunkResponding to press reports late last week that he’d shown up to frat party drunk, Rep. John Sweeney (R-NY) now says that he “wasn’t drunk and wasn’t even drinking” at the frat party he attended at Union College last month.
So we called up the reporter for the Union College newspaper, John Tomlin, who had described Sweeney in his piece as “openly intoxicated.” He stood by his story. Students at the party he spoke to agreed: Sweeney was clearly drunk. And one perceptive student told him not only that Sweeney had been drinking at the party, but that his beverage of choice was a Keystone Light beer. Another student confirmed to us that he’d seen Sweeney drinking beer.
“I distinctly recall being there [at the party] and thinking to myself, ‘This guy is drunk,'” Tomlin said. Ha talked to a number of people there, and they agreed.
But I guess you never know. Maybe a room full of frat boys don’t know a drunk guy when they see one.
