‘Donut boy’: Republican politician taunts police after wrong-way chase

Gene Suellentrop, the Kansas state senate's majority leader, had twice the legal alcohol limit when driving in the wrong direction on the highway, police say

When critics of the party accuse Republicans of heading in the wrong direction, they don't usually mean it literally. But that's what happened with the Kansas senate majority leader, Gene Suellentrop, who was arrested early in the morning on 16 March after leading police on a chase that hit speeds of 90mph and saw the lawmaker travelling against the flow of traffic and narrowly avoiding striking other vehicles on the road.

They about hit me, but I'm OK, I'm fine," one driver who called 911 on the night in question said, as reported by the Kansas City Star.