Posted on 03/29/2011 12:44:12 PM PDT by jazusamo
Rep. Anthony Weiner, the self-appointed scourge of diplomatic scofflaws in Manhattan, has racked up more than $2,000 in unpaid parking tickets around Capitol Hill.
From 2007 to March of this year, Weiner's ticket total was 2,180 for violations near the Capitol and at Reagan Washington National Airport, Roll Call, the Capitol Hill newspaper, reported Tuesday.
A Weiner spokesman said all of the fees have since been paid. Aides to the Queens Democrat claim that part of the problem may have that D.C. sent notices to a bad address.
But Weiner "is pleased to have helped decrease the D.C. budget deficit," the spokesman told Roll Call.
Weiner has raged against foreign dignitaries who ignore New York City's traffic rules, and last year introduced a bill seeking to get $18 million in unpaid parking tickets from 180 nations for the city.
"It's insulting to all New Yorkers that countries like Yemen, Zimbabwe and Iran owe the city millions in unpaid parking tickets," Weiner said.
"Diplomats park illegally, ignore paying their parking tickets and expect New Yorkers to pick up the tab. This needs to end," he added.
A Roll Call survey showed that lawmakers in Washington had at least $15,000 in unpaid parking tickets and moving violations.
yet another chapter in the saga of the appropriately named Anthony Weiner.
yet another chapter in the saga of the appropriately named Anthony Weiner.
I wonder if the tickets are really from his wife, Huma Wiener?
Should change his name to Richard Cranium !
Or the National Hot Dog and Sausage Council. . .
It was probably Huma.
Thanks justiceseeker93. Having lots of unpaid parking tickets is an old New York tradition. :’)
Weiner has gotten a LOT of press over the last year.
Is he being groomed to be the next demrat presidential candidate?
He is a nasty tempered marxists after all.
just thinking
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