How can you defend drunk drivers?

The granddaddy of DUI bloggers, Lawrence Taylor, answered this question in a post on his blog.

More on MADD

The Toronto Star reports that 81 cents of every dollar donated to MADD is spent on administrative costs, including salaries for non-volunteers, and tele-marketing expenses.

You can imagine what fundraising volunteers think of that:

MADD Canada founder John Bates, who received the Order of Canada for his anti-drunk driving work, said the group created at his kitchen table many years ago has lost its way. He and other volunteers have raised this issue with Murie over the past year.

"We started off with no money at all. Now MADD has become a money machine working on fear and scare tactics," said Bates, the one-time chairman who now has an honorary position on the board but no voting power. "There are wonderful people doing great volunteer work in MADD chapters across Canada but MADD head office has taken a national tragedy and turned it into a fundraising machine."

MADD really has lost its way.