{"id":1497499,"date":"2022-05-31T05:14:53","date_gmt":"2022-05-31T09:14:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1497499"},"modified":"2022-05-31T05:14:57","modified_gmt":"2022-05-31T09:14:57","slug":"susan-gone-wild-pennsylvania-dem-zooms-into-campaign-event-while-driving-video-shows","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/susan-gone-wild-pennsylvania-dem-zooms-into-campaign-event-while-driving-video-shows\/","title":{"rendered":"Susan Gone Wild: Pennsylvania Dem Zooms Into Campaign Event While Driving, Video Shows"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">26<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fsusan-gone-wild-pennsylvania-dem-zooms-into-campaign-event-while-driving-video-shows%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1497499&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><\/div>\n<p>Pennsylvania Democratic congresswoman Susan Wild earlier this month chose a treacherous place to join a virtual campaign event\u2014the middle of the road, where she was recorded zooming through traffic as her dog watched on in the passenger seat.<\/p>\n<p>Wild was the honored guest at a May 11 Jewish Democratic Council of America &#8220;Jewish Dems Week of Action&#8221; event, which she joined from her car as she drove through traffic and fiddled with her phone. At one point during the video call, a recording of which was obtained bu the\u00a0<em>Washington Free Beacon<\/em>, Wild acknowledged that she was driving and told fellow attendees that she wouldn&#8217;t &#8220;be looking at&#8221; them because she was navigating traffic.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Hi everybody. Susan, is that you driving?&#8221; one of the event&#8217;s hosts asked the congresswoman. &#8220;I am,&#8221; Wild said. &#8220;You are the ultimate multitasker,&#8221; the host replied. &#8220;Well, thanks, and I&#8217;m not gonna be looking at you, but I will be talking with you,&#8221; Wild later added.<\/p>\n[embedded content]\n<p>A number of groups that work to combat distracted driving denounced Wild&#8217;s behavior. Unite CEO Patrick DeGrasse\u2014who manages the group&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/arrivealivetour.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Arrive Alive Tour<\/a>, which educates teens on safe driving\u2014called Wild&#8217;s move &#8220;exactly what the Arrive Alive Tour is trying to prevent&#8221; and implored the Democrat to take the group&#8217;s &#8220;pledge to drive SAFE: Sober and Free of Electronics.&#8221; End Distracted Driving cofounder Joel Feldman, whose daughter was killed by a distracted driver in 2009, said he admires Wild but called her decision &#8220;stupid as hell.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I think she made a really, really bad mistake,&#8221; Feldman told the <em>Free Beacon<\/em>. &#8220;I would hope that she&#8217;ll look at this and say, \u2018Well, you know \u2026 on second thought, it&#8217;s probably not such a good thing to do.&#8217; Because it sets a really bad example for our children.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Wild did not return a request for comment. Her decision to take the Zoom call on the road was technically legal\u2014Pennsylvania has a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.penndot.pa.gov\/TravelInPA\/Safety\/TrafficSafetyAndDriverTopics\/Documents\/Texting-Ban-Fact-Sheet.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">texting-while-driving ban<\/a>, but the law only prohibits drivers from using a cell phone to &#8220;read or write a text-based communication.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>StopDistractions.org president and CEO Jennifer Smith, who said she was &#8220;appalled&#8221; by Wild&#8217;s behavior, called on Pennsylvania lawmakers to update the state&#8217;s distracted driving legislation. Smith noted that distracted driving has <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cmtelematics.com\/news\/cambridge-mobile-telematics-reports-distracted-driving-in-us-at-highest-point-of-pandemic\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">increased 30 percent<\/a> since the pandemic began as more people work away from the office and on the go.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Now people are getting behind the wheel and doing things they wouldn&#8217;t have normally done, like participating in Zoom calls,&#8221; Smith told the <em>Free Beacon<\/em>. &#8220;And so we all have to be really conscious about what we&#8217;re doing.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;This is a congresswoman. She is running for office. She should be setting an example, and she&#8217;s setting an example of a deadly behavior,&#8221; Smith continued. &#8220;And for all the families that have lost loved ones \u2026 due to distracted driving crashes, I think she needs to realize the danger in what she did and make sure that she doesn&#8217;t do it again.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>House Speaker Nancy Pelosi&#8217;s (D., Calif.) husband was involved in a separate dangerous driving incident over the weekend. Paul Pelosi was <a href=\"https:\/\/www.npr.org\/2022\/05\/30\/1102036672\/paul-pelosi-husband-arrest-dui\">arrested<\/a> on suspicion of drunk driving in northern California, NPR reported.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pennsylvania Democratic congresswoman Susan Wild earlier this month chose a treacherous place to join a virtual campaign event\u2014the middle of the road, where she was recorded zooming through traffic as<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":176,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1497499","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1497499","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/176"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1497499"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1497499\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1497499"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1497499"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1497499"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}