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GOP figure charged with driving drunk

Associated Press, June 8, 1999

A top Republican fund-raiser who queried Texas Governor George Bush about past indiscretions, including drinking, has been arrested and charged with drunken driving. Alexander "Sandy" Tennant, former executive director of the Massachusetts Republican Party and now a top State House lobbyist, was arrested at 5 a.m. May 20 at St. Paul and Browne streets in Brookline and charged with operating under the influence, police said. Tennant, 48, of Swampscott, who will answer the charges later this month, could not be reached for comment. On May 28, the Globe reported that Tennant had angered Bush, a potential presidential candidate, when he grilled him on several subjects at a March meeting with potential backers in Austin.