If the state of Missouri lowers the threshold for showing a driver is drunk, it apparently will do it despite some dug-in heels. The federal government says it will withhold tens of millions of dollars in highway funding from Missouri if it does not cut the blood alcohol level to show drunk driving from .1 to .08. Some senators say the law should require that a driver be found to be impaired, which the sponsor says would make it a lawyer’s bill. And Cape Girardeau Senator Peter Kinder does not want the law to go into effect until late in 2003. Sponsor Morris Westfall of Halfway calls Kinder’s effort a “killer amendment.”
