The head of the agency charged with enforcing Delaware’s alcohol laws has resigned after being arrested for drunken driving.
Siobahn Sullivan submitted her resignation letter to Secretary of Safety and Homeland Security Lewis Schiliro on Friday, saying she was resigning effective immediately as director of the Division of Alcohol and Tobacco Enforcement.
Sullivan was stopped for speeding early Thursday on Route 1 near Lewes and subsequently charged with drunken driving.
Weirder still are the number of people out there named Siobahn Sullivan. Why?
Found by John Martinez.
“Siobahn Sullivan”? Aye, it’s a good Irish name. And apparently she comes from a good Irish family.
Its a stupid name.
How ‘Siobahn’ can possibly be read and pronounced ‘Shiborn’ is a mystery humanity will never be able to fathom.
@ #2 Zybch: How’s ignorance going for you? Never heard that there’s other languages besides English? Her name is an Americanised version of Siobhán which is the Irish name for Joan/Joanne. The Irish name is pronounced kinda like this: Shiv-aun.
#2 – I dated a lady named Siobahn. Took me about 10 seconds to learn to pronounce her name.
Now Zybch! What is that? Polish?
The work ethic in this country is pretty bad. We keep saying how great American’s are but the results are just the opposite. Their needs to be a renewed effort to bring back a good days work. Obviously this guy did not believe in what he was supposed to be representing.
Why?
I was also wondering why so many spelled it wrong.
Wow, that’s badass. Maybe she’ll get to wear one of those cool bracelets!
So when will Geithner resign? And all the Senators who voted to confirm him? And the President who appointed him?
I could only pronounce her name when she was drunk.
Well at least she had the decency to resign.
Many would have denied it for days on TV and then be stripped and removed from office.
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I don’t see any reason why she should have resigned. You violated the law, you get caught, you pay the penalty. She coordinates the various programs doing that.
Silly Hooman thinking to connect this violation of law with her competency in performing the duties of her office = unless any and all public officials should be fired whenever they have too much to drink.
Is that the logic?
#11
In your “logic” then it would be OK if your:
Fire Chief was an arsonist.
Police Chief was a thief.
Prosecuting Attorney was a murderer.
Child Protection chief was a child molester.
Chief of Security was a saboteur.
Yeah. Good idea.
Makes all the sense in the world. Cos they’d be the ones to know how these criminals all think right?
Troll harder.
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#9 Skeptic – Thanks for the morning chuckle.
Cursor–I suppose that is the “best” argument in response although the “infraction” of driving drunk ranks no where near the felonies you list to make your point which is rather obvious. More subtle was my point in the opposite direction of people merely being drunk which is the underlying activity being of note.
In all your CRIMES, the people should be jailed and fired regardless of other facts. For drunk driving, often one only gets a license suspension, NOT fired from job, and perhaps even protection for having an illness.
give it another try: why fire anyone for drunk driving on their private time?
#2
Irish Gaelic is pronounced a bit different from English, even if it uses (mostly) English characters.
Siobhán
S – pronounced Sh, as in Shoe
i – Same as in English, a short ‘i’ because of the following ‘o’, as in hit
o – as it’s directly afer the ‘i’, it makes the ‘i’ a short sound, but itself is effectively silent.
bh – pronounced v, as in verve
á – sort of an ‘au’ or ‘aw’ sound, such as in lawn
n – much the same as the n in lawn again.
There’s more to this depending on letters are before and after what, but the basic structure is simpler than English & you can learn it in a fairly short while.
Thou’ if you want something that looks totally bizzare, try Manx Gaelg
Oorey vie ort
Instead of copying what other people have said, you may want to comment on what is hot in the news at a particular moment.
We just discussed this last night in group. Everytime someone relapses, which is all to frequently, we have to go over what happened and devise tactics to defeat it next time. Sometimes that means re-visiting the basics and sometimes it gets a lot more complicated. Anyway, thanks for sharing.
One of the biggest problems my group has isn’t convincing folks that they have a problem. It’s convincing them to address the biggest one first and then deal with the other stuff. Nobody seems to want to do that. Everyone wants a reason or an excuse. They want to worry about the big bruise on their arm when there leg is cut off and they are bleeding out.