Comments on: All talk, no action on photo enforcement http://azcapitoltimes.com/news/2009/07/31/all-talk-no-action-on-photo-enforcement/ Your Inside Track to Arizona Politics Fri, 17 May 2013 21:13:50 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: rich http://azcapitoltimes.com/news/2009/07/31/all-talk-no-action-on-photo-enforcement/comment-page-1/#comment-575 rich Mon, 03 Aug 2009 05:14:38 +0000 http://azcapitoltimes.com/?p=13535#comment-575 This is Arizona="Money from each photo enforcement ticket breaks down as follows: $16.50 to statewide public campaign financing, $13.48 to the Department of Public Safety, $25.17 to the Supreme Court of Arizona’s Administrative Office of the Courts, $29.70 to Redflex (the private photo enforcement company) and $96.65 to the State of Arizona’s general fund". http://www.thenewspaper.com/news/27/2712.asp , Arizona "a ten percent surcharge was imposed on all traffic tickets to create the "Citizens Clean Election Fund." The fund allows politicians to avoid tedious fundraising efforts. After raising just $5 each from 220 people in a district, candidates for public office qualify for public financing money to match private expenditures. In effect, these lawmakers collect $16.50 for their campaigns each time a photo radar ticket is issued on an Arizona freeway. This adds up to big money. In 2008, traffic tickets generated $10,095,771 in revenue for the clean elections fund. Out of this amount, $7,710,739 million was disbursed to lawmakers and candidates during the primary and general elections -- an average of $72,063 each. In just the past four months, the new freeway speed camera program has already added another $3.3 million to the total amount collected for lawmakers. Over the past four election cycles, Arizona politicians collected a total of $36,265,795 in campaign cash from the tax on speeding tickets. Opponents of the state photo ticketing program ". . By Robert Vitale THE COLUMBUS DISPATCH "A Columbus City Council member whose committees oversee legislation dealing with road construction, red-light cameras and environmental issues borrowed money from a lobbyist whose clients are interested in the same topics" "refused to disclose the amount of the loan ". Akron Becon Journal--"City Council president criticizes William Healy II for contracts involving campaign contributors" "Schulman pointed to two contributions of $125 each on July 8 from individuals associated with Redflex Traffic Systems Inc. of Phoenix" Chicago Tribune:After Carol Stream Police Chief Rick Willing recommended his town hire Redflex Traffic Systems, village officials approved a contract with the Arizona-based red-light camera vendor in December 2007. Less than a year later, Willing retired from the force and began working for Redflex. This is Arizona=”Money from each photo enforcement ticket breaks down as follows: $16.50 to statewide public campaign financing, $13.48 to the Department of Public Safety, $25.17 to the Supreme Court of Arizona’s Administrative Office of the Courts, $29.70 to Redflex (the private photo enforcement company) and $96.65 to the State of Arizona’s general fund”. http://www.thenewspaper.com/news/27/2712.asp , Arizona “a ten percent surcharge was imposed on all traffic tickets to create the “Citizens Clean Election Fund.” The fund allows politicians to avoid tedious fundraising efforts.
After raising just $5 each from 220 people in a district, candidates for public office qualify for public financing money to match private expenditures. In effect, these lawmakers collect $16.50 for their campaigns each time a photo radar ticket is issued on an Arizona freeway.
This adds up to big money. In 2008, traffic tickets generated $10,095,771 in revenue for the clean elections fund. Out of this amount, $7,710,739 million was disbursed to lawmakers and candidates during the primary and general elections — an average of $72,063 each. In just the past four months, the new freeway speed camera program has already added another $3.3 million to the total amount collected for lawmakers. Over the past four election cycles, Arizona politicians collected a total of $36,265,795 in campaign cash from the tax on speeding tickets. Opponents of the state photo ticketing program “. .
By Robert Vitale
THE COLUMBUS DISPATCH “A Columbus City Council member whose committees oversee legislation dealing with road construction, red-light cameras and environmental issues borrowed money from a lobbyist whose clients are interested in the same topics” “refused to disclose the amount of the loan “.
Akron Becon Journal–”City Council president criticizes William Healy II for contracts involving campaign contributors” “Schulman pointed to two contributions of $125 each on July 8 from individuals associated with Redflex Traffic Systems Inc. of Phoenix”
Chicago Tribune:After Carol Stream Police Chief Rick Willing recommended his town hire Redflex Traffic Systems, village officials approved a contract with the Arizona-based red-light camera vendor in December 2007.

Less than a year later, Willing retired from the force and began working for Redflex.

]]> By: Henry Bowman http://azcapitoltimes.com/news/2009/07/31/all-talk-no-action-on-photo-enforcement/comment-page-1/#comment-541 Henry Bowman Fri, 31 Jul 2009 19:00:27 +0000 http://azcapitoltimes.com/?p=13535#comment-541 "During the hearing, lawmakers were told by DPS that the camera systems collect and store streaming video. That revelation came moments after RedFlex lobbyists testified the systems merely collected still photographs of speeders." When will the perjury charges be brought? Seriously, the people are tired of this "one law for the commoners, and another for the well-connected" bul*hit. “During the hearing, lawmakers were told by DPS that the camera systems collect and store streaming video. That revelation came moments after RedFlex lobbyists testified the systems merely collected still photographs of speeders.”

When will the perjury charges be brought?

Seriously, the people are tired of this “one law for the commoners, and another for the well-connected” bul*hit.

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