Obama pays parking tickets 17 years late

MSNBC ^ | July 23, 2009 | staff reporter

[Daffynition]

BOSTON - Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama got more than an education when he attended Harvard Law School in the late 1980s. He also got a healthy stack of parking tickets, most of which he never paid.

The Illinois Senator shelled out $375 in January - two weeks before he officially launched his presidential campaign - to finally pay for 15 outstanding parking tickets and their associated late fees.

[Old Professer]

To bahd you missed all your english classes while you’re their.

[Freddd]

I would like to know the name on the tickets, addresses, job listings...kind of car or vehicle driven.....

[Inwoodian]

When I was seeking to be admitted to the New York Bar I had to swear under oath that I had no outstanding tickets- and they checked. I don’t know where Obama is admitted but I assumed all jurisdictions were alike. Could this be perjury?

[Buckeye McFrog]

you can now be sure if he ever had a DUI or disorderly conduct at Harvard it’s gonna be leaked by some pissed-off Boston cop

[Eagletest]

The total is rediculously low, to those of us from the commonwealth of Taxachusetts...Fifteen tickets...20 or so years...THIS is not a realistic amount if you got caught with these stuffed in your glove-box...

[Never on my watch]

If these were library books he would owe $50,000.

Isn’t there some kind of penalty for being a scoflaw? I betcha it says on the back of the ticket that failure to pay the fine would result in... (some kind of summons, perhaps).

[DariusBane]

Me too, they created an impossible parking situation, then harvested the cream. Typical of cities everywhere. Make a mockery of the criminal justice system. Course none of that could work if they couldn’t find people willing to put the tickets on the cars.

I used to pay them... With trash bags full of pennies!

[freespirited]

Let me guess. He didn’t pay the tickets because he felt his car was racially profiled.

[BP2]

This was identified back in December, pulled from an old CD-Rom (pre-Internet) database entry that BirthDatabase.com got ahold of.

Some people say that this database entry exists simply because Obama lived in the Somerville, Mass, area and received the parking tickets. After all, BOTH Barack Obama Jr and Sr lived in the area while attending Harvard.

Yet other people say there's something interesting sitting in a County Courthouse or City Ledger, perhaps related to a Port of Entry through Logan Field back in August 1961 ...

Any Freepers living near Somerville, Mass?
I can tell you where to look for a document number (and it WON'T be related to his or Ann's drivers license) ...

[Verginius Rufus]

Probably the meter maids were all racists.

[DungeonMaster]

Reason # 1650 he sucks.

[MissDairyGoodnessVT]

I wonder too thinking old Obeyme parking tickets containing information to his past residence(s) in Cambridge would be fruitful in researching more on his past. any takers?

[hoosiermama]

Race do you know if we have any freepers in Somerville, Mass?

[mysterio]

Seems like the penalty would have been a lot more severe for someone who isn’t an oligarch.

[LucyT]

Thanx, BP2.

Any Freepers living near Somerville, Mass?

I can tell you where to look for a document number (and it WON'T be related to his or Ann's drivers license) ...

Check out #29.

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[Daffynition]

Interesting ...sale of a motorcycle?

Outstanding parking tickets. On a more dubious note, Obama also became adept at collecting parking tickets in Somerville, MA. BHO avoided paying the fines for over 19 years. They were only paid in 2007 after he announced his candidacy to run for president.

According to George P. Hassett, Senior Editor of the Somerville News, "Before Barack Obama was a United States senator and a presidential hopeful, he was a Harvard University law student living in Somerville who parked in bus stops and accumulated hundreds of dollars in parking tickets. And, for nearly two decades, those parking tickets went unpaid until a representative of Obama’s settled all his outstanding debts with Cambridge’s Traffic, Parking and Transportation Department Jan. 26 [2007]…"

During his time at Harvard, BHO lived at 366 Broadway in Somerville, according to his parking tickets. Records from the Cambridge Traffic, Parking and Transportation office show that between Oct. 5, 1988 and Jan. 12, 1990, BHO was cited for 17 traffic violations, sometimes receiving two in the same day. The violations included parking in a resident permit area, parking in a bus stop and failing to pay the meter. Twelve of BHO’s 17 tickets were given to him on Massachusetts Avenue. In one eight-day stretch in 1988, BHO was cited seven times for parking violations and was fined $45. Thirteen of the 17 violations occurred within one month in 1988.

BHO’s disobedience of the rules of the road earned him $140 in fines from the City of Cambridge. The tickets went unpaid for over 19 years and $260 in late fees were added to the tab. On Jan. 26. the fines and late fees were paid in full. The final tally for Obama’s parking breaches was $400, according to Cambridge Traffic, Parking and Transportation.

Obama spokeswoman Jennifer Psaki said the presidential candidate’s parking violations were not relevant. "He didn’t owe that much and what he did owe, he paid…Many people have parking tickets and late fees. All the parking tickets were paid in full," Psaki said.

Most ordinary Americans are treated differently when parking tickets are not paid. The collection process commonly results in "offenders" being tracked down and forced to pay outstanding traffic tickets, including court costs; nonpayment of parking tickets can also result in suspension of driving "privileges," jail, wage garnishments, liens and/or foreclosures on real property. Why was BHO allowed to avoid paying those fines for more than 19 years despite his notoriety as a U.S. senator? What gives him immunity from the very laws he helps create?

[erkyl]

This is OLD news, we Freepes all knew about this before the election. What makes this interesting is the source: MSNBC!

Is the MSM about to turn on “the one”?

[Daffynition]

It is most curious, eh?

Also, I searched and didn’t come up with this being posted, unless it was buried in an article. C’est la vie.

Now......those SS#s........hmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm.

[erkyl]

I searched and didn’t come up with this being posted

I just remember reading it somewhere before the election, along with his forged draft registration, and all the other things the MSM ignored. Maybe it wasn't here.

[erkyl]

I found it:

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2109211/posts