The most eye-popping part of the latest news about Sen. Justine Wadsack, alleged criminal speeder, is not the way she tried to use her status as a state senator to wiggle out of a traffic ticket.

It is not her sense of entitlement or her bizarre claim of “political persecution” after she was clocked going 71 mph in a 35 mph zone.

No, it’s the reason Sen. Speed Demon was hurtling down the road in Tucson late one Friday night, near the family home she says she doesn’t live in — a house that is miles outside her legislative district.

Here is how the March 15 traffic stop, just after 10 p.m., began, according to police bodycam footage obtained by the Tucson Sentinel.

“Do you have your driver’s license, registration and insurance?” the Tucson police officer asked as Wadsack sat in her red Tesla just off Speedway in midtown Tucson.

“Yes, I do,” she replied. “My name is Sen. Justine Wadsack and I’m racing to get home because I have four miles left on my charger before I’m about to go down.”

But Wadsack claims to live in an apartment in Marana nearly 20 miles away in the district she represents — not the family home that is 10 blocks from where she was stopped.

She supposedly moved out of her family’s midtown Tucson home in 2022, first renting a room in a safe Republican district where she proceeded to knock off Republican Sen. Vince Leach, then supposedly........

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