http://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory?id=3116831
N.J. Governor Pays Seat Belt Ticket
AP NewsBreak: N.J. Gov. Corzine, Injured in Crash, Pays Fine for Not Wearing Seat Belt
The Associated Press
By TOM HESTER Jr. Associated Press Writer
TRENTON, N.J. May 1, 2007 (AP)
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Gov. Jon S. Corzine has voluntarily paid a $46 fine for violating state law by not wearing a seat belt during the trip in which a car crash left him critically injured, his spokesman said Tuesday.
Corzine met with State Police Superintendent Col. Rick Fuentes, Attorney General Stuart Rabner and two state police investigators Tuesday at the governor’s mansion in Princeton to discuss the accident, spokesman Anthony Coley said.
As the meeting ended, Corzine asked Fuentes for a ticket, Coley said. Fuentes wrote one, and Corzine wrote a check for $46, Coley said.
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I am still steamed about the radio reporting that he supposedly was demanding, getting, and paying his 46 $ tix. And the media says it’s over.
:-(
The political komisars think they are better then us schmoes. And this is over when the schmoes say it is! Not when the fawning media that lets the politicians get away with this “barbara streisand” says so!
I also blogged about his caravan left the hospital with 6 escort cars and the reporters clocked going 70 in a 55 zone. Where’s the demand for ticket for that?
It’s about the assumption that they can use force on other people, but don’t dare hold them accountable to the SAME rules.
Argh!
Politicians. If they just be content to run out in traffic as quick as they are to run out in front of a parade, then we’d all be better off.
I hope that everyone who gets a speeding ticket or a seat belt ticket demands a trial and raises the 14th Amendment issue of equal protection. If the Guv can do it, then we all can do it. If I’m on the jury, you’re out of there.
We’d be better off picking governors and legislators by lottery. At least we’d get “real people” in power. I still think that we should not vote for anyone who campaigns.
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