Posted on 05/20/2015 3:10:16 PM PDT by markomalley
Hillary Clinton apparently is in one heck of a hurry to become president.
While fleeing from the press to an unannounced fundraiser in Waterloo, Iowa, Clinton's six-car motorcade, including her maroon minivan dubbed "Scooby," was clocked traveling at up to 95 mph by reporters giving chase, the Daily Mail reports.
The speed limit for that stretch of highway is 65 mph, The Daily Caller reported.
While Clinton's staff denies the motorcade was speeding, the Daily Mail posted a speedometer video taken by a reporter showing the speeds at which they were driving in an attempt to keep up with Clinton to find out where the candidate was going.
However, Iowa law enforcement, instead of criticizing Clinton, blasted and threatened the reporters following her motorcade, The Des Moines Register reports.
Iowa Department of Public Safety spokesman Alex Murphy told the Register, "Amateur video that shows such behavior, which itself demonstrates a violation of the law by presumably untrained individuals, does not negate the fact that law enforcement takes action based on public safety and protection of the people who have been identified as potential targets."
"These types of dangerous driving behavior by amateurs may well result in law enforcement action. The designation of an individual as a protected person is taken seriously in Iowa."
(Excerpt) Read more at newsmax.com ...
Who was the Rat critter? I guess he didn’t have a New Jersey state trooper to drive him.
not when I was there. they could bust an axle in a corn field.
overtime again????
link?
One or two.
Politicians other than Clinton have not generally gotten away with this in our state.
Oh wait. Branstad did get away with it...
“The stop was similar to an April 26 incident just 25 miles south, in Hamilton County. In that case, Trooper Steve Lawrence was clocked driving 84 mph on Highway 20, which has a speed limit of 65 mph, with Branstad and Reynolds aboard.
A Division of Criminal Investigation agent spotted the speeding SUV and reported it to dispatch. Trooper Matt Eimers pursued the SUV for several miles, passing numerous vehicles, before determining the SUV was driving Branstad and Reynolds. He stopped the pursuit.
DCI agent Larry Hedlund, who reported the speeding SUV, was put on paid leave within days of complaining the driver wasn’t ticketed. Hedlund, a 25-year veteran, was fired July 17 and has since sued for wrongful termination.
An internal review ended with a $181 speeding ticket for Lawrence. Eimers was not disciplined.
Branstad called a news conference July 18, denouncing Hedlund’s claims that his firing was related to the speeding incident. The governor pledged that troopers not on emergency business would be told not to exceed speed limits.
“We need to obey the speeding laws and traffic laws,” Branstad told reporters. “I don’t want to see another incident like this one.”
The Franklin County stop happened six weeks later.”
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>> “Why do you think the limit is 65?” <<
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Strictly for the revenue!
Highways are safer if traffic is moving at a more natural speed. 75 MPH is vastly safer than 65.
The engineering standards assume traffic is traveling at 85 MPH, but most states license people that can’t deal with 85, and that is where the problems arise, because they won’t go that fast, and others have to pass them constantly.
“These types of dangerous driving behavior by amateurs may well result in law enforcement action. The designation of an individual as a protected person is taken seriously in Iowa.”
We all know that those surrounding any of the Clinton are not Amateurs when it comes to breaking the law so I guess it is ok.
Unfortunately, I think the driver is only one legally culpable, even if the Governor told him to floor it.
You’re right, of course.
Speed limits, like laws, are only for the little people.
It’s good to be queen.
The speed limit is different for various reasons such as density, hills, curves, road slickness, etc.
However, the limit is pretty much always 10-20mph below the natural safe speed of the road and 90% of people naturally go much faster.
Speed limits nationwide should be raised 10-15mph with a speed minimum added to all interstates.
Look, you can trash your FIL all you want...he obviously is a nut, his daughter married you. That’s got nothing to do with me.
Let’s do some short history here: you came on ranting about Newsmax being totally useless and corrupt because their founder,owner gave money to the Clinton Crime Family Foundation. This is what shallow thinkers do, they make assumptions.
All I did was correctly point out that while the founder may be okay with the Clintons, that many of his reporters, writers, producers and on air people are not at all. I also correctly pointed out that Hillary and the Foundation are routinely criticized and made fun of by some Newsmax people.
Then you just went off the deep end, accusing me of all kinds of idiotic stuff. Then I posted a Newsmax article critical of Hillary, totally destroying your entire premise, and you just go angrier. I’m sure your FIL is an idiot, he raised a daughter with no judgment whatsoever. You sink yourself with your own words.
So flail away again, I’ll not read it.....
Give up fool!
You are a plastic person.
You “correctly” did absolutely nothing.
Your snoozsmacks story on Hitlery could easily have been about any member of congress, or any state office holder.
Whoopie!
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>> “with a speed minimum added to all interstates.” <<
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AMEN!
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Where does the "natural safe speed" of the road come from? Engineering standards take into consideration the condition of the road, the usual amount of traffic, the frequency of exits and entrances, etc. I will never understand how 75 MPH is "vastly" safer than 65 MPH. We could easily drive 100 MPH or more on most highways, but the sh*t hits the fan when something goes a little wrong. How many people could handle a front blow-out at 75 MPH? Who could react in time when the pickup you've been following too closely has something fly out of the back of it at 75 MPH? Or what happens when someone entering the highway doesn't understand what the "acceleration lane" is for and pulls out in front of you at 30 MPH when you're doing 75 MPH? I could go on and on, but I think you get my drift. "Naturally" drive faster? No, most people drive faster than their ability to do so.
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>> “Engineering standards take into consideration the condition of the road” <<
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No!
Engineering standards dictate the condition of the road.
All highways are built for a minimum of 85 MPH.
We could easily drive at 100 MPH if incompetent people were not given licenses, and if drug and alcohol diminished drivers were not present.
The main issue is that all drivers drive at their safe speed, but that speed is not universal. Drugs, booze, bad eyesight, slow reaction times, and improperly maintained vehicles alter it.
On and off ramps are rarely much of an issue to a competent driver. Blow-outs at 75 were common in the days of Firestone 500 tires, but rarely did they cause more than inconvenience. Modern wheels have lock beads that hold deflated tires in place long enough to exit the driving surface.
It sounds as though you might be a person with diminished physical abilities, judging by your comments??
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“Natural” speed is what most drivers on that road feel collectively comfortable with. It can vary for every mile of road but 99% of roads I’ve been on, people are travelling 10-20mph above the posted limit. Basically when you drive the limit on these roads, you feel like you are “crawling” and everyone flies by you.
Why can going 85 be safer than 65? Well, driving SLOWER than traffic flow is EQUALLY as dangerous as driving faster. The safest highway travel is when all vehicles are moving about the same speed and out of each other’s blind spots.
I’m a NYer but drive long distances often, including cross country several times. In 300k+ miles of driving, I have NEVER seen any of these rare situations you describe. But I have had two 100lb flower pots nearly fall on me from balconies and survived 2 gas explosions (completely random).
If you’re worried about every such “1-in-a-million” possibility, you’re already dead! Stay off the highways if you want to go slow and hide under your sheets where it’s “safe”. STOP LEGISLATING for some ILLUSION of “safety” and let others truly live this short life!
In 2 million+ miles of driving professionally, plus whatever I have driven in my private vehicles the last 40 something years, I have seen such situations many times. Maybe after a few more miles you may see that.
Stay off the highways if you want to go slow and hide under your sheets where it’s “safe”.
I had to chuckle at that. If you had even a hint of an idea what I have been doing for the last 40 years, you wouldn't have made such a statement.
STOP LEGISLATING for some ILLUSION of “safety”
No where did I mention legislating anything. But now that you've brought that word up, I think it rather unfortunate that common sense has to be legislated sometimes because so many people lack it. According to you, even if the posted limit was 200MPH, people would do 10-20MPH above it.
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