Related piece:
“DMV wants $8,442 for list of agencies with protected plates”
http://www.ocregister.com/article/program-dmv-records-2012250-register-million
ping
Ya might want to alert our fellow Californians...
Some are more equal, and that is quite a sum.
BTW, Arguably, earthquakes, brushfires and mudslides are "weather"
California certainly is not the only state that enables public officials to live above the law. In Maryland, some cops in Montgomery county refuse to pay speeding tickets that they received from speeding cameras while driving police cars.
It is too bad these people cannot be fired and permanently disallowed from ever working for government again. But of course, this is why so many people in this country have nothing but feelings of cynicism and contempt for government in general, because anyone who is "on the inside" gets a free pass while everyone else has to obey the law.
LOL, parents need to get their children into the lucrative government business - - generous pension and benefits, essentially unfireable, easy hours, work at your own pace, retire in your fifties, maybe even your forties....
I'm glad to see that someone is finally telling the public the real reason that we have to put up with the traffic congestion caused by the use of Diamond Lanes out here on the Left Coast.
The fact that the politicians can drive the Diamond Lanes free of the car pool restriction is that reason. It is the only reason. It certainly a fact that Diamond Lanes take up way more real estate on our freeways than can possibly be justified by any improvement in traffic flow that theoretically results in the greater use of car pools. That simply didn't happen in sufficient numbers to justify the continued deployment of our Diamond Lanes. It is way past time to bury this bad idea.
Another example of why every family should have a member who either works for the government or is an attorney.
And don’t tell me, let me guess......98% of these people are Democrats, right? Do I get the brass ring for cutting to the core of the problem? They are getting closer and closer to the old Pol communists with their job perks. Yes, some ARE more equal than others.
Who thinks this is limited to Kalifornia? LOL! This sort of thing is NORMAL in govt. Bureaucrats regularly get away with crimes that would put regular citizens in jail. They are quite brazen. You should see the crud that goes on in any govt office... State, local or Federal. Right now the entire executive structure of the DOD under the new NSPS system is systematically stealing every cent they can for personal pay raises and bounses. Nothing can be done, even though these civilian traitors are ruining our war fighting capabilites.
Those of us old enough remember a time when California was the Promised Land, when we would watch the sunshine-covered Rose Parade while the snow piled up outside, or the women “wished they all could be California girls”.
Now California is essentially a Third World slum, with all the attendant corruption, crime, filth, and dismal quality of life more in tune with Tegucigalpa. So many people are leaving that if you factor out the illegals, it is LOSING population.
Maybe it’s time to give it back to Mexico. In a very few years, when the Hispanic population exceeds 51%, they will be voting secession anyhow, so let’s save all the trouble and let them have it.
Some animals are more equal.
/sarcasm>
The purpose of traffic fines (including DWI) is revenue for city operations.
This is why those who make the laws and those who enforce the laws and those who collect the fees are exempted.
They are not to punish, they are to make sure that you pay “your fair share” as it has been assessed.
Secret state employees. Perks of working for the man.
While employed with a local PD in KY in the 80’s I discovered that a KY statue prevented state legislators from being ticketed for traffic violations ‘while the legislature was in session’ because they may be in a hurry to get to Frankfort for a vote. Of course that meant that any plate belonging to a protected state employee was never ticketed.
That said, what would happen if the tollway and other agencies that got stiffed by the totalitarian anarchists were to start up a web site posting their license plates and what was owed? From my read of the article, people who have those special plates aren't legally exempt from toll and other requirements--it's simply very difficult to collect from them. On the other hand, public exposure might cause such things to calm down pretty quickly.
"Law enforcement came to me and asked me to sponsor it," said Oropeza, D-Carson.
This year, Assemblyman Sandré Swanson, D-Alameda, is sponsoring a bill that would add some zoo veterinarians, animal control agency workers and humane society shelter workers to the program. After introducing the bill, he added firefighters and code enforcement officers, as well.
____________________________________________________________ Government employees are now able to avoid red light cameras, parking tickets etc.
Government employees are clearly above the law.
Among the top violators on OCTA's list were Dwight and Michell Storay (he's a parole agent with the Department of Corrections), with 622 violations; Lenai and Arnold Carraway (she's an Orange County social worker), with 239 violations and Susie and Mike Stephen (she's a Chino Police Department dispatcher), with 227 violations.