Former S.C. Treasurer Thomas Ravenel will be in court later this week in East Hampton Village, New York, after he was arrested and charged with suspicion of driving while impaired (DWI) early Monday morning.
The dashing reality TV star – who was reportedly accompanied at the time of his arrest by prominent Palmetto socialite Kathryn Dennis – initially declined a breathalyzer exam following his traffic stop, which means his right to drive in the Empire State will be revoked for a year. Ravenel is in New York playing polo, according to The East Hampton Star – the local media outlet which broke the story.
At the time he was pulled over, Ravenel and Dennis were returning to a Long Island home from the Stephen Talkhouse – a club in the Hamptons. Ravenel acknowledged having a beer at the club and a glass of wine hours before during dinner – but maintains he was not inebriated.
“There are some mitigating factors I look forward to discussing regarding this situation when the time is right,” Ravenel said in a statement. “For now, though I am going to refer any requests for comment to my attorneys as we consider our options.”
South Carolina and New York have very different laws for driving while impaired – although both states have adopted .08 as their legal blood alcohol limit. Ravenel may have initially declined the breathalyzer without knowing New York imposes a far greater penalty for doing so.
Ravenel later attempted to take the breathalyzer exam, but was not permitted to do so.
Speculation regarding Ravenel’s arrest quickly centered around the Bravo reality show he will be starring in later this year – “Southern Charm.”
“I think it’s all for ratings,” one Lowcountry political strategist told FITS.”It’s all free advertising for his show.”
If so … mission accomplished.
Ravenel has been mulling a political comeback in recent weeks. In fact earlier this month he told Charleston, S.C. radio host Tara Servatius that he was considering pumping as much as $5 million of his own fortune into a bid for the U.S. Senate seat currently held by liberal “Republican” Lindsey Graham.
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In the words of the late Jim Nabors aka Gomer Pyle, “SURPRISE! SURPRISE! SURPRISE!”.
In the words of the late Jim Nabors aka Gomer Pyle, “SURPRISE! SURPRISE! SURPRISE!”.
T-Rav is rad!
What the fuck does rad mean? Maybe you meant T-Rat or something along those lines?
Shut up Leaphart.
T-Rav is rad!
What the fuck does rad mean? Maybe you meant T-Rat or something along those lines?
Shut up Leaphart.
T-Rav embarrssed our State again. It won’t be long before Sanford, Peeler, and Eckstrom do the same. These leopards are too long in the tooth to change their spots.
I predict Haley will do the same and if re-elected it will come about quickly. In my schooled opinion, the woman has a pathological problem with the truth, loyalty, committment and sex.
Uh Oh two down votes. I see peeler, eckstrom, haley or sanford ARE reading Fits.
Or maybe it’s donna,kelly,michael, or maria!?
Yes, mental illness is very sad. Wonder why her parents did not get her help. They had to know something was very wrong with her.
Indeed, a sad little girl.
This happened this morning? Thought he was in Beaufort this morning with Mark Sanford.
That was his dad. Yes, Arthur’s still alive.
Arthur Jr. divorced wife number one after conducting a multi-year affair with wife number two. Both father and son refer to their black hired help just like Paula Deen — calling them “niggers.” Father, son, and Kathryn Dennis, are trailer trash.
T-Rav embarrssed our State again. It won’t be long before Sanford, Peeler, and Eckstrom do the same. These leopards are too long in the tooth to change their spots.
I predict Haley will do the same and if re-elected it will come about quickly. In my schooled opinion, the woman has a pathological problem with the truth, loyalty, committment and sex.
Uh Oh two down votes. I see peeler, eckstrom, haley or sanford ARE reading Fits.
Or maybe it’s donna,kelly,michael, or maria!?
Yes, mental illness is very sad. Wonder why her parents did not get her help. They had to know something was very wrong with her.
Indeed, a sad little girl.
This happened this morning? Thought he was in Beaufort this morning with Mark Sanford.
That was his dad. Yes, Arthur’s still alive.
Arthur Jr. divorced wife number one after conducting a multi-year affair with wife number two. Both father and son refer to their black hired help just like Paula Deen — calling them “niggers.” Father, son, and Kathryn Dennis, are trailer trash.
What a douche! Do something productive, loser!
Looks like New York did something productive.
I don’t think it’s free.
What a douche! Do something productive, loser!
Looks like New York did something productive.
I don’t think it’s free.
Harpootllan can get him off. And I’m sure Dennis can too. HAW!
Dick Harpootllan can get him off. And I’m sure Kathryn Dennis can too. HAW!
btw, Sic, I’m sure you are keenly aware that calling Dennis a prominent socialite speaks volumes about how Southern Culture on the Skids is far more than a band’s name in South Carolina.
https://www.fitsnews.com/2013/07/22/t-rav-faces-ny-drunk-driving-charge/
Just the spot for some SCOTS tunage!
White Trash / Southern Culture On The Skids / YouTube
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1m3rMrva0To&list=AL94UKMTqg-9ATdx96f7epF-losTlL80qN
xlent!
I’ve met strippers with more class
Every stripper I’ve met has more class.
This is one of your best posts, Boz. A randy joke and a SCOTS reference. Nice work.
Honey Boo Boo is a Georgia socialite.
This shit head would do us all a favor, if he jumped off the Arthur Ravenel Bridge, during high tide.
He would find a way to screw that up too.
You can’t just pollute the river like that, man.
Maybe he can jump holding hands with Richard Eckstrom, Mark Sanford, Bob Peeler and Gov. Haley.
It would be a just end for the embarrassment and taint they have given the GOP!
Dick Harpootllan can get him off. And I’m sure Kathryn Dennis can too. HAW!
btw, Sic, I’m sure you are keenly aware that calling Dennis a prominent socialite speaks volumes about how Southern Culture on the Skids is far more than a band’s name in South Carolina.
Dick Harpootllan can get him off. And I’m sure Kathryn Dennis can too. HAW!
btw, Sic, I’m sure you are keenly aware that calling Dennis a prominent socialite speaks volumes about how Southern Culture on the Skids is far more than a band’s name in South Carolina.
https://www.fitsnews.com/2013/07/22/t-rav-faces-ny-drunk-driving-charge/
Just the spot for some SCOTS tunage!
White Trash / Southern Culture On The Skids / YouTube
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1m3rMrva0To&list=AL94UKMTqg-9ATdx96f7epF-losTlL80qN
xlent!
I’ve met strippers with more class
Every stripper I’ve met has more class.
This is one of your best posts, Boz. A randy joke and a SCOTS reference. Nice work.
Honey Boo Boo is a Georgia socialite.
This shit head would do us all a favor, if he jumped off the Arthur Ravenel Bridge, during high tide.
He would find a way to screw that up too.
You can’t just pollute the river like that, man.
Maybe he can jump holding hands with Richard Eckstrom, Mark Sanford, Bob Peeler and Gov. Haley.
It would be a just end for the embarrassment and taint they have given the GOP!
prominent Palmetto socialite?! HAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHA Please sic make it stop.
Failed-politician-turned-reality-TV-star puts T-Rav in the same category as Sarah Palin.
Yep, right up there with Candice Bessinger!
All you need to know about this show is that JD (John David Madison) is going to be on it. This guy has frauded everyone out of money in Charleston he has been involved with. You would think the producers of this show could do a simple search of court records. Ravenel has the bad judgement to be seen with this guy out around Charleston all the time. Look at JD’s public records for yourself. http://jcmsweb.charlestoncounty.org/publicindex/PISearch.aspx
I’m sure the producers did check histories of all of the people they are going to show. We’re talking about reality television. Honey Boo Boo doesn’t bring in ratings because of her family being a shining example of intelligence and class. People like watching the lives of fucked up individuals, that’s all there is to it.
prominent Palmetto socialite?! HAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHA Please sic make it stop.
Failed-politician-turned-reality-TV-star puts T-Rav in the same category as Sarah Palin.
Yep, right up there with Candice Bessinger!
All you need to know about this show is that JD (John David Madison) is going to be on it. This guy has frauded everyone out of money in Charleston he has been involved with. You would think the producers of this show could do a simple search of court records. Ravenel has the bad judgement to be seen with this guy out around Charleston all the time. Look at JD’s public records for yourself. http://jcmsweb.charlestoncounty.org/publicindex/PISearch.aspx
I’m sure the producers did check histories of all of the people they are going to show. We’re talking about reality television. Honey Boo Boo doesn’t bring in ratings because of her family being a shining example of intelligence and class. People like watching the lives of fucked up individuals, that’s all there is to it.
Uh, he only has $600 in his checking account? I feel better now.
His bank would only allow him to withdraw $600 out of an ATM within a 24-hour period.
That appears to be a very low amount for him. How much can Dennis withdraw, and why didn’t she offer (money, that is)?
Uh, he only has $600 in his checking account? I feel better now.
His bank would only allow him to withdraw $600 out of an ATM within a 24-hour period.
That appears to be a very low amount for him. How much can Dennis withdraw, and why didn’t she offer (money, that is)?
So sic, is this the only guy you blow on a regular basis or are there others. Will this pos have a chapter in your book.
So sic, is this the only guy you blow on a regular basis or are there others. Will this pos have a chapter in your book.
Dashing? You mean douchey.
I hope this dude is paying you to shill for him. If it’s embarrassing nonetheless, but you gotta make a living.
Cool, now he’ll come out in favor of drunken driving.
Or renounce his citizenship again.
Dashing? You mean douchey.
I hope this dude is paying you to shill for him. If it’s embarrassing nonetheless, but you gotta make a living.
Cool, now he’ll come out in favor of drunken driving.
Or renounce his citizenship again.
I love how they call Moncks Corner residents Socialites!
Thats rich!
I love how they call Moncks Corner residents Socialites!
Thats rich!
I wonder if NY has a recip with SC on the license suspension? That would be even funnier than this douchebag’s predictably characteristic failure to take responsibility for his juvenile behavior. Innocent people take the test, especially if they’ve consumed a single beer and a single glass of wine over a few hours. That would barely register (and like most people, he knows that). What a lying, self-important clown. Can’t wait to hear his excuse- I guess the big bad government is now infringing upon his right to be a spoiled brat and run over some innocent people on the way back to his bud’s house to bang his trashy mid-life crisis girlfriend. Totalitarianism rears its ugly head!
Exactly Mike. Money does not buy class.
I wonder if NY has a recip with SC on the license suspension? That would be even funnier than this douchebag’s predictably characteristic failure to take responsibility for his juvenile behavior. Innocent people take the test, especially if they’ve consumed a single beer and a single glass of wine over a few hours. That would barely register (and like most people, he knows that). What a lying, self-important clown. Can’t wait to hear his excuse- I guess the big bad government is now infringing upon his right to be a spoiled brat and run over some innocent people on the way back to his bud’s house to bang his trashy mid-life crisis girlfriend. Totalitarianism rears its ugly head!
Exactly Mike. Money does not buy class.
How dare dem damn Yankees ah pickin on our Blue Bloods! ‘Ol Sniffy just up dare havin’ a good ‘ol time and try to trying to edjumacate dem Yankees on a little Southern Charm…why he all swave and deboner…ya know…he got dat Aristocrate Blood in ’em. He make Honey Boo Boo all Proud!
Fucking Douche!
How dare dem damn Yankees ah pickin on our Blue Bloods! ‘Ol Sniffy just up dare havin’ a good ‘ol time and try to trying to edjumacate dem Yankees on a little Southern Charm…why he all swave and deboner…ya know…he got dat Aristocrate Blood in ’em. He make Honey Boo Boo all Proud!
Fucking Douche!
“T-Rav”…sounds like a gangsta rapper.
“Errybody in da [polo] club gettin’ tipsy….”
Pro Tip :
At least in SC, NEVER take the Breathalizer.
Seems like NOT drinking and driving would be much better advice.
“T-Rav”…sounds like a gangsta rapper.
“Errybody in da [polo] club gettin’ tipsy….”
Pro Tip :
At least in SC, NEVER take the Breathalizer.
Seems like NOT drinking and driving would be much better advice.
TRAV and Dennis equla the ultimate white trash couple.
TRAV and Dennis equla the ultimate white trash couple.
LOL the dude went to rehab for being a cokehead and now back on the sauce and driving too? and of course cocksucker/womanbeater will keeps pimping this clown’s “political comeback” (in reality nothing more than a bravo reality show.) logic dictates that the dude is still definitely a cokehead. its a lot like cocksucker/womanbeater will who after “going to rehab” for heroin addiction spent many years afterwards as a cokehead and degenerate drug addict. of course, being a womanbeating degenerate drug addict didnt stop mark sanfraud from inviting him into the fold, and was probably why he chose him as his public liar-in-chief. when your goal is deliberate misinformation and duplicity and shamelessly lying to the rubes who cant get enough bullshit between their empty ears (proof: newt gingrich, trikki haley and the comeback of sanfraud), you need a lowlife piece of shit like womanbeater will to sell them their garbage. sanfraud t-rav and trikki couldnt have found a better scumbag for the job.
Maybe Sanford tolerates Tom because of his family’s wealth and perhaps had the use of his NYC and Hampton residences for his trysts with Belen.
exacto-mundo! birds of a feather….
Don’t they both look alike, too?
So… you’re pleased with Mr. Folks performance and website?
LOL the dude went to rehab for being a cokehead and now back on the sauce and driving too? and of course cocksucker/womanbeater will keeps pimping this clown’s “political comeback” (in reality nothing more than a bravo reality show.) logic dictates that the dude is still definitely a cokehead. its a lot like cocksucker/womanbeater will who after “going to rehab” for heroin addiction spent many years afterwards as a cokehead and degenerate drug addict. of course, being a womanbeating degenerate drug addict didnt stop mark sanfraud from inviting him into the fold, and was probably why he chose him as his public liar-in-chief. when your goal is deliberate misinformation and duplicity and shamelessly lying to the rubes who cant get enough bullshit between their empty ears (proof: newt gingrich, trikki haley and the comeback of sanfraud), you need a lowlife piece of shit like womanbeater will to sell them their garbage. sanfraud t-rav and trikki couldnt have found a better scumbag for the job.
Maybe Sanford tolerates Tom because of his family’s wealth and perhaps had the use of his NYC and Hampton residences for his trysts with Belen.
exacto-mundo! birds of a feather….
Don’t they both look alike, too?
So… you’re pleased with Mr. Folks performance and website?
Well, if it is just alcohol, at least he is keeping his nose clean in the literal sense.
I’m betting it wasn’t just alcohol. Just a suspicion.
Well, if it is just alcohol, at least he is keeping his nose clean in the literal sense.
I’m betting it wasn’t just alcohol. Just a suspicion.
I thought T-Raving Lunatic and Dennis “broke up”?
Pretty hard to give up that 20 something snatch eh Grand Daddy?
Especially when the snatch will do anything for a score/hit of anything remotely mind altering.
Let’s just hope T is using protection.
Maybe TR’s hung like an ox and KD follows him around for her daily pounding. That or his money or his easy access to cocaine. What else explains this?
Just another Anna Nicole.
All of the above?
I thought T-Raving Lunatic and Dennis “broke up”?
Pretty hard to give up that 20 something snatch eh Grand Daddy?
Especially when the snatch will do anything for a score/hit of anything remotely mind altering.
Let’s just hope T is using protection.
Maybe TR’s hung like an ox and KD follows him around for her daily pounding. That or his money or his easy access to cocaine. What else explains this?
Just another Anna Nicole.
All of the above?
“dashing reality TV star”
“prominent Palmetto socialite”
Is that what they call whores these days?
Come on FITS, get over these no class nothings. They really aren’t important nor worth anyone’s attention. Quit feeding the vain.
“dashing reality TV star”
“prominent Palmetto socialite”
Is that what they call whores these days?
Come on FITS, get over these no class nothings. They really aren’t important nor worth anyone’s attention. Quit feeding the vain.
There is good chance that his SC license will also be suspended as a result of his NY breathalizer refusal. Speaking of DUIs, wonder if Ted Vick’s license has been suspended for refusing the test.
There is good chance that his SC license will also be suspended as a result of his NY breathalizer refusal. Speaking of DUIs, wonder if Ted Vick’s license has been suspended for refusing the test.
Is he still on probation? If so, can he be violated back to federal prison?
Is he still on probation? If so, can he be violated back to federal prison?
Maybe Kathryn Dennis should get a spin off show called Honey Blow Blow?
Maybe Kathryn Dennis should get a spin off show called Honey Blow Blow?
Just like Carrot Top, he likes to watch.
Just like Carrot Top, he likes to watch.
I wouldn’t vote for this sorry ass POS anymore than I’d vote for a pile of shit. Actually I’d vote for the pile of shit over this drugged-out skank. He’s a disgrace to S.C. and to his father. Typical entitled frat-boy. I’ll take Lindsay Graham over this turd any day of the week.
I wouldn’t vote for this sorry ass POS anymore than I’d vote for a pile of shit. Actually I’d vote for the pile of shit over this drugged-out skank. He’s a disgrace to S.C. and to his father. Typical entitled frat-boy. I’ll take Lindsay Graham over this turd any day of the week.