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 (AP) - Ted Mondale, the former state senator and
one-time DFL candidate for governor, was booked early Wednesday on
suspicion of drunken driving.

      Mondale said he went to a Twins game Tuesday night and then to
dinner with friends downtown, drinking a couple of beers at the
game and wine with his meal. 

"I'm guilty," he said. "Whatever
the punishment, I'm going to obviously accept it and never do that
again."

      Mondale, 49, said a State Patrol trooper stopped him on
westbound Interstate 394 between Penn Avenue North and Highway 100
as he headed to his St. Louis Park home. The trooper told him he
was speeding and then asked whether he had been drinking, Mondale
said.

      Mondale, the son of former Vice President Walter Mondale, said
he admitted to drinking, took field sobriety tests and was taken to
the Hennepin County jail. 

On the advice of his attorney, Mondale
said he refused to take a blood-alcohol test at the jail.

      He was booked at 1:48 a.m., posted bail and was discharged about
4 a.m. He was expected to appear in court May 23.

      Mondale, who has no previous arrests, said he didn't dispute his
impairment with the trooper. "I made an error in judgment," he
said. "I shouldn't have got in my car."
      

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Ted Mondale, the former state senator and
one-time DFL candidate for governor, was booked early Wednesday on suspicion of drunken driving.


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