Showing posts with label Richard Corcoran. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Richard Corcoran. Show all posts

Tuesday, May 3, 2011

Florida House votes to repeal red-light camera law, no thanks to wimpy Broward members: 1 for repeal, 16 against HB 4087


I could make this post lengthy and impassioned but I won't.
I'm far too tired and the information below is self-explanatory in the extreme.

If you want to believe the opposite of what you can see right in front of your own eyes, you're entitled to your opinions.
On the other hand, I can use that opinion of yours against you and not think you very credible on other matters in the future based on your lack of seriousness now.
In fact, you can pretty much count on it.


The Pavlovian pro-Nanny State response of the Broward Legislative Delegation Monday explains SO much of what makes this part of the Sunshine State so very unappealing for visitors and depressing for citizen taxpayers.

Those of you living far away have no idea how idea-starved this area is and how myopic Florida legislators vision is.

Speaking of the Broward Legislative Delegation
, I will have a post this coming weekend about them that makes a simple case for ending one of their unfunded mandates that's paid for by Broward taxpayers that the public does NOT benefit from.

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Orlando Sentinel
Central Florida Political Pulse
Red-light repeal lives to fight another day
Posted by Aaron Deslatte on May, 2 2011 4:37 PM

http://blogs.orlandosentinel.com/news_politics/2011/05/red-light-repeal-lives-to-fight-another-day.html

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BrowardBeat
House Votes To Ban Red Light Cameras!
By Buddy Nevins
May 2, 2011

The Florida House on Monday passed a ban on controversial red light cameras.

The vote was a razor-thin 59 to 57.

Unlike many issues in the Legislature, banning cameras had significant Republican and Democratic support. They fought a small army of lobbyists for the red light camera industry and cities hungry for the revenue the cameras produce.

Read the rest of the post at:
http://www.browardbeat.com/house-votes-to-ban-red-light-cameras/

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So, who voted for the repeal and who voted against?
The Miami Herald's first report on the vote, an AP dispatch, doesn't say.

So what else is new, right?

http://www.miamiherald.com/2011/05/02/2197508/fla-house-votes-to-repeal-red.html

That's been the way things have been there for so long that it's hard to believe that "Once upon a time..."


I cobbled together the information below so that you will know who did what, since neither the Herald or Sun-Sentinel seem too interested in revealing it.



Florida State Representatives that are part of the Broward Legislative Delegation, even if based in another county, and how they voted Monday on HB 4087.
Green is for repeal, red means they love red-light cameras and absolutely believe the Joy Coopers of the world when they say it has nothing to do with revenue.

Just don't ask them if the cameras are deployed first to the areas that received the most red-light running complaints or were the scene s of the most accidents caused by that before their installation.
They really don't want to have to tell the truth on that question since in Hallandale Beach, as is the case with many other cities, they ARE NOT.
The powers that be simply don't want to be bothered with your inconvenient facts.


87 Bill Hager
90 Irving Slosberg

91 George Moraitis, Jr.

92 Gwyn Clarke-Reed

93 Perry Thurston, Jr.

94 Hazel Rogers

95 Jim Waldman

96 Ari Porth

97 Martin Kiar

98 Franklin Sands

99 Elaine Schwartz

100 Evan Jenne

101 Matt Hudson

102 Eduardo Gonzalez

103 Barbara Watson

105 Joe Gibbons

112 Jeanette Nuñez


The voting information above is from the Florida House's own website, but I had to double-check the members House district numbers to put it in some order:
http://www.myfloridahouse.gov/

Friday, February 25, 2011

Groups opposed to Florida's current red-light camera law are holding demonstrations throughout the state on Saturday

Thus far, which is to say about 10 p.m. on Thursday the 24th, I've been unable to ascertain the exact location of where the protests described in this article below will take place in South Florida on Saturday.

I will be calling State Sen. Rene Garcia's office on Friday to find out if they know any particulars that would be helpful to know.
His district office phone number is
(305) 364-3100

In the absence of an organized event closer to many of us here in this part of southeast Broward County, it would seem common sense to me that the eastern sidewalk along
U.S.-1, south of Hallandale Beach -right near the first red-light camera erected in Hallandale Beach- would seem the best location for such an event.

It also offers a highly-visible location with an infinite supply of people driving by who will be in support of repealing the current red-light camera law, which, sadly for residents of Hallandale Beach, the city is clearly exploiting for revenue purposes.

And when you think about it, is there really a red-light camera location in South Florida more infamous than this one?
In a word, "NO!"

As you know from my previous posts here, and some very fair-minded articles in the South Florida Sun-Sentinel, the Broward County Commission will be voting on Tuesday on the issue of the current law being repealed by the Florida legislature.


The bill in the State House to repeal is
Bill 4087, which was filed by State Rep. Richard Corcoran, R-New Port Richey, and the companion in the State Senate is Senate Bill 672, filed by Sen. Garcia, whose district is based out of Hialeah.


The Weekly Challenger

Groups Backing Senator Rene Garcia To Hold A Statewide Red Light Camera Day Of Protest
Originally posted 2/24/2011
http://www.theweeklychallenger.com/news/Article/Article.asp?NewsID=107704&sID=13&ItemSource=L

http://www.theweeklychallenger.com/

See also:

Report Critiques Red Light Camera Research Methods
University of South Florida analysis elaborates on conclusion that red light cameras are associated with increased injury accidents.

http://www.thenewspaper.com/news/34/3413.asp

WBAL-TV
I-Team
video: Dead Officer Signed Red Light Citations

Baltimore Police, Other Officials Work To Correct Problem
POSTED: 1:30 pm EST February 10, 2011
http://www.wbaltv.com/news/26821379/detail.html

The Washington Post

How red-light cameras work

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2011/02/22/AR2011022206911.html