Carla Blanchard Dartez
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Carla Dartez is a Democratic State Represenative in Louisiana. She was first elected to that office in 1999.
[edit] Controversy
In November 2007, she came under fire from the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People for calling one of her volunteers "Buckwheat." The local chapter of the NAACP threw their support behind her Republican opponent in the November 17, 2007 run-off election.[citation needed] Her remarks were covered by the Associated Press. [1]
[edit] References
The Daily Review, Morgan City, LA., Tuesday, January 29, 2008
[edit] Former representative booked on second DWI
Former state Rep. Carla Dartez was charged with driving while intoxicated at 10 a.m. Monday in Bayou Blue, police said. If convicted, it would be Dartez's second offense. According to published reports, Dartez was stopped by a Louisiana State Police trooper Monday morning on U.S. 90 near the La. 316 exit. She was also charged with improper lane usage. Although Dartez passed the breath test - blowing .037 below the legal limit of .08 - she refused to take a uring test that would have revealed whether she was using other drugs besides alcohol, authorities said. Refusing the test results is an automatic DWI charge, according to Trooper Gilbert Dardar, a spokesman for State Police Troop C. "Any time we make an arrest and someone blows below the legal limit and we, as arresting officers, feel that the person was more impaired than what the breath test showed, then we would ask the person to submit a blood or urine sample for further analysis," Dardar said. Dartez, a Democrat from Morgan City who until this year represented parts of Terrebonne, Assumption, and St. Mary parishes, als was convicted of DWI in 1998. She was also charged with driving without headlights, improper lane usage, and speeding during the incident. Dartez, 42, lost her re-election bid to the House of Representatives last year. Before the election she was criticized for calling the mother of Jerome Boykin, president of Terrebonne Parish's National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, "Buckwheat" during a phone conversation.
