Posted on 04/05/2008 6:56:50 AM PDT by kellynla
It's 1:45 p.m. on a Wednesday in February and a Toyota Camry is driving west on the 91 Express Lanes, for free, for the 470th time.
The electronic transponder on the dashboard – used to bill tollway users – is inactive. The Camry's owners, airport traffic officer Rudolph Duplessis and his wife, Loretta, have never had a toll road account, officials say.
They've never received a violation notice in the mail, either. Their car is registered as part of a state program which hides their home address on Department of Motor Vehicles records. The agency that operates the tollway does not have legal access to their address.
Their Toyota is one of 996,716 vehicles registered to motorists who are affiliated with 1,800 state and local agencies and who are allowed to shield their addresses under the Confidential Records Program.
An Orange County Register investigation has found that the program, designed 30 years ago to protect police from criminals, has been expanded to cover hundreds of thousands of public employees – from police dispatchers to museum guards – who face little threat from the public. Their spouses and children can get the plates, too.
This has happened despite warnings from state officials that the safeguard is no longer needed because updated laws have made all DMV information confidential to the public.
(Excerpt) Read more at ocregister.com ...
“Why the hell does anyone with a brain live in CA?”
Next time you’re in the area, let me know and I’ll give you the “Cooks Tour”
Orange county is mighty nice...and where I live there are NO Lefties allowed LOL, no gangs, very little crime, no earthquakes, no floods, no burshfires, no floods and/or no mudslides.(Fountain Valley) Just perfect weather, great water sports, beautiful country and Dodgers, Angels, Lakers and when the Ducks & Kings remember how to play, some pretty good hockey LOL
Only place in the states besides Hawaii where you can go surfing in the A.M. and snow ski/boarding in the P.M.
sweeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeet!
But we do have some crackpots in Sacramento but if the Lefties continue to abort their offspring and Conservatives continue to flourish; we’ll soon solve that problem at the pols!
I’m a native. I keep hoping enough people will begin to share my thoughts; i.e. go to Sacramento, enter into the buildings, strip the hacks and pols naked, then whip them out, on to and down the streets. Such action is way overdue.
With HALF of Americans receiving some kind of government assistance and HALF of Americans who don’t pay ANY income taxes and the government being the only entity who continues to hire and hire and hire and never fire; who says Communism is dead! LOL
LOL! I’m siting her in earhtquake weather enjoying a panoramic ocean view.
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.
Only parts of it. The Promised Land is still quite visible is many places, so people stay hoping the pendulum will swing back in other direction. Those who have been here long enough remember a time when it did - when Jerry Brown's disastrous reign ended and George Deukmejian's governorship coincided with Ronald Reagan's Presidency to make 80's California a huge improvement over 70's California. People hold out hope that can happen again, some day.
And for many (myself included), it's all about the money - like New York City and depending on your field, one can make much more money in California than anywhere else for the same work. Find a way to minimize your expenses for a few years and you can leave California in a very strong financial position, take your money East, and piss off all the Nevadans and Texans and Coloradans by driving their housing prices up. ;)
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.
I'd call "danger close" first.
“Nothing can be done”
Term limits is the only solution and ya know the chances of that ever coming to fruition are slim & none!
And “Slim” just left the building. LOL
Yeah, we’re toast.
All you can do is hunker down, hide everything you can possibly hide, and keep plenty of ammo handy.
I will admit that as I get longer in tooth it is getting harder.
Don’t forget the other half who work and pay taxes. LOL!
Post of the week BUMP!
Unloading California on Mexico is actually an excellent idea on several levels. If the scumbag Democrats lost two rat Senators, all those rat Congresscritters and all those permanent electoral votes, the rest of the nation might stand a chance of recovering. We would just need to build a good fence between California and America.
who are fast depleting by each passing day...
exactly why I'm for eliminating income taxes and the IRS and replacing it with a national sales tax so that EVERYONE contributes!
Secret state employees. Perks of working for the man.
McCain is opposed based on an obvious misunderstanding. The two Dums have said nothing. They run on change, but can't see one of the biggest changes we need.
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.
I lived in Southern California for about 4 years. The weather is awesome...is it reason enough to put up with all the BS? Nearly. It's very, very close.
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