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Cocktail ba$h for ‘DWI’ pol

ALBANY — Maybe he’ll use the cash for his legal defense.

A state assemblyman who was arrested on suspicion of DWI Tuesday sent out an invitation a day later reminding supporters about a cocktail fund-raising party he’s hosting next week.

The event for Robert Rodriguez at the MIST Harlem venue on West 116th Street is still on, his spokeswoman said, adding that the East Harlem Democrat was taking a “planned vacation” and unavailable for comment.

The price of the fund-raiser goes from $250 per person to $2,500 for a table.

Rodriguez, 37, had been driving his Jeep Cherokee at 2:10 a.m. Tuesday in Colonie, just outside Albany, when cops pulled him over for swerving, police say.

The lawmaker, who had been at a bar in Albany, had alcohol on his breath and “watery, bloodshot eyes and slow speech,” the police report says.

Cops said he never identified himself as a lawmaker and refused to take a sobriety test.

Rodriguez was charged with driving while intoxicated and refusing to submit to a chemical test and was cited for failing to keep right on the road.

His spokeswoman, Chelsea Connor, said that he regrets any embarrassment he caused constituents, and that he hopes to put it behind him.