Who’s ready for another special edition of Oklahoma Politicians Gone Wild!?
Yesterday, The Oklahoman’s Nolan “Nice Toupee” Clay reported that Oklahoma Corporation Commissioner Todd Hiett – the longtime Oklahoma politician and loyal puppet to the oil and gas industry – was checking himself into rehab after an embarrassing drunken incident at a regulatory conference in Minnesota.
According to Nolan’s reporting, the details of what happened are a bit sketchy, primarily because a dodgy Hiett claims he was too drunk to remember.
Via The Oklahoman:
Hiett, 57, told The Oklahoman in an interview that he does not remember the incident on June 9 after a reception at the Mid-America Regulatory Conference. He did acknowledge he drank too many vodka sodas that night.
"I just know that I'm told that I abused alcohol," he said. "Obviously not my proudest moment to hear that. And I'm very embarrassed and humiliated ... that I've been told that my behavior was not good."
He insisted he has not been told in detail what happened. "Just that it was inappropriate and that people were offended," he said. "I made a terrible mistake. ... I know I disappointed a lot of people and I disappointed myself."
Wait a minute. He got blackout drunk on… vodka sodas? Did Hiett switch bodies with a 32-year-old woman on a crash diet trying to squeeze into a bridesmaid's dress? I bet the other people at rehab mock him for choosing the most boring drink on the menu!