Free Parking for Colorado Lawmakers...
The plates issued to the 100 state lawmakers and representatives elected to serve Colorado are preventing them not only from receiving photo radar tickets but also collection notices from past due parking tickets.
The legislative plates are not entered into the Colorado DMV database, so when photo radar cameras catch these drivers speeding, they never received tickets. That’s because of a loophole that doesn’t allow the City of Denver to electronically cross-reference those plates with a home address.
Now CBS4 has uncovered the same glitch with parking tickets. Lawmakers who don’t pay their parking tickets aren’t sent to collections. The problem is the City of Denver’s collections relies on the state DMV database for addresses.
“Because the Department of Public Works relies on the DMV Database to contact people with unpaid parking tickets we are not able to contact legislators with unpaid parking tickets,” explained Denver Public Works spokesperson Emily Williams.
Williams agrees the net effect is that lawmakers can ignore the parking tickets without consequences.
“That’s true,” Williams said, “And it’s the glitch in the system”.
OK, Pilgrims, the next time you get a parking ticket that you think is undeserved --- just blow it off and tell your local gob'mint that it was 'just a glitch'! Good luck!!
Everyday, in every way, from DC to hometown Amerika, the ruling class is separating itself from Mr & Mrs John Q Citizen.... Din't Louis XVI and Marie Antoinette lose their heads with that attitude???
BTW, in Denver alone, income from traffic ticket fines have increased every year and in 2011. 645,000 tickets were issued -- adding $28 MILLION Denver drivers hard earned dollars to the city coffers... but none of course, from the Lawmakers!!
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