[Yahoo!] Multiple police-driven vehicles used to transport Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot have reportedly racked up multiple traffic tickets that have gone unpaid despite the mayor's advocacy for stricter speed cameras in the city.
Two of the SUVs used to shuttle Lightfoot throughout Chicago have accumulated three speed camera tickets and two warnings in the past month. The tickets have so far gone unpaid, CWB Chicago reported on Monday.
Additionally, CWB Chicago reported that one of the SUVs in the mayor’s fleet has a red light ticket that has not been paid and two SUVs that were previously assigned to Lightfoot’s security detail have outstanding speed and red light tickets.
One of those SUVs is eligible to be booted and impounded over the lack of payment.
Two of the speed violations committed by Lightfoot’s SUVs reportedly occurred in school zones and the citations stated that school children were present. Raise a big enuf stink and she'll scapegoat/sacrifice the CPD drivers that she's been telling to "go faster dammit!"
Since taking office, Lightfoot supported a push to lower the "buffer zone" threshold that speed cameras allow before issuing a citation from 10 mph to 6 mph, arguing that it will make roads safer.
"No one likes speed cameras. I get it," Lightfoot was quoted last month. "But this is life or death that we’re talking about here, and we’ve got to step up as a city and address this."
Lightfoot also pointed out the potential dangers to kids despite being ticketed for speeding through a school zone with her own security detail.
"It is unconscionable that any City Council member would consider voting to allow for increased speeds near spaces utilized by our children," Lightfoot said.
Lightfoot's office did not immediately respond to a request for comment from Fox News Digital.
In 2020, Chicago Tribune reported that the city of Chicago dismissed the majority of tickets that were issued to Lightfoot's security team, which included tickets given at times the mayor was attending non-city related events.
The Illinois Policy Institute, a libertarian think tank, found that Chicago has issued 3.8 million speeding tickets, generating almost $80 million in revenue to the city since Lightfoot lowered the threshold last year.
The Chicago City Council struck down a measure to repeal the lowered speed camera threshold last week in a vote that Lightfoot supported.
WLS-TV reported that 84% of all speed camera tickets issued were given to drivers driving between 6 and 10 miles per hour over the speed limit.
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HR2814 (Repeal of PLCAA) Pulled As Well. This bill would have removed the libel protection gun manufacturers have to keep from getting sued if someone used their products for evil.
...ranked by Neighborhood Scout as one of the country's most dangerous cities...
Mayor Tishaura Jones ...Cop-hating Dem heronner da mare of St. Louis. Chicago and Baltimore needed some competition for murder capital... signed a bill allocating federal funds to out-of-state abortion expenses last week, Missouri Attorney General Eric Schmitt promptly filed a lawsuit against the city.
St. Louis’s "Reproductive Equity Fund" taps into $1.5 million in American Rescue Plan funding, dedicating $1 million specifically to providing logistical support for abortion, "including but not limited to the funding of childcare, transportation, and other logistical support needs." Missouri’s trigger law banned abortions in all cases except for medical emergencies, making it a class B felony to perform one.
Attorney General Schmitt, who is currently running for Senate in the Aug. 2 Republican primary, called the fund "blatantly illegal." Missouri law explicitly bars the use of public funds for "performing or assisting an abortion" and "encouraging or counseling a woman to have an abortion not necessary to save her life."
Jones, in her comments to the St. Louis American, equated his lawsuit to a "bully" tactic.
"I will not back down when our opponents threaten, bully, or demean our safety," Jones said. "Especially the attorney general, who is more concerned with chasing clout than healthcare."
"The Reproductive Equity Fund will empower St. Louisans to make the best healthcare decisions for themselves and their communities while addressing the disparities exacerbated by the COVID-19 crisis," she said.
Attorney General Merrick Garland did not rule out prosecuting former President Donald Trump for his role in January 6 in a new interview with NBC's Lester Holt
'We intend to hold everyone, anyone who was criminally responsible for the events surrounding January 6 ... accountable,' Garland said
Holt pointed out to Garland that prosecuting a former president or a potential presidential candidate could 'arguably tear the country apart'
'Do you have to think of things like that?' the NBC Nightly News anchor asked Garland
Garland spoke in vague terms, saying, 'Look, we pursue justice without fear or favor' That sounds more like red meat for the rubes than an actual plan for action.
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I don’t think anyone should rule out charging Merrick Garland with treason
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...I'm thinking that this is still more threat than likelihood; intended to tell the Base 'If you send us back, we'll indict him."
With just over three months to Election Day, they'd have to be empaneling a grand jury right the heck now to get an indictment before the next Congress takes over in January and scuppers the whole 1/6 effort.
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Trump said a few days ago he would purge Deep State if he got back into the White House. He had a landslide victory stolen from him and Deep State knows he is formidable and now a wounded bear.
[Townhall] President Joe Biden is almost pretty much out of the woods when it comes to recovering from COVID-19, or so we're told. His symptoms are nearly "resolved," though it's worth reminding time and time again that the White House refuses to make Biden's personal physician, Dr. Kevin O'Connor, directly available to the American people, instead insisting that letters will have to do.
The president has continued working throughout his diagnosis, which includes talking to the press and partaking in several video messages. A recent one truly has people talking, though. Not only does the president like and sound really tired and ragged, he doesn't blink once throughout the whole message, which may be the most hostage-like video the White House has released.
Seriously, it's painful to watch. Our friends at Twitchy highlighted some of the best reactions, while also asking if this was "a test of Disney’s new animatronic Biden" for the Hall of Presidents.
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He's vacationing down by the pool in Warm Springs. We'll tell you when he'll be back in Washington. Please make your selections from our listing of pre-recorded interviews and stock photographs. More to follow.
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I am still not buying into that he had C-19/22.
I am leaning in the direction of a cover story to explain his absents while getting needed treatment for his declining mental capabilities and related issues.
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Ref #1 above B
My father was one of the Secret Service Agents on the Presidential Detail for FDR from 1940-1945, and then Truman through the end of 45 before he transferred as a Special Agent at the State Department. He was on Duty at the Warm Springs House when FDR died, helped move him to the bedroom after his collapse, and remained on scene until the President was pronounced. He then was one of two agents that helped Lucy Mercer Rutherford and Artist Elizabeth Shoumatoff discretely leave the Little White House before any press or public officials arrived. He then rode the train with he casket back to DC and assumed the same duties with the Truman Detail, going on with Truman and the USS Augusta to Potsdam and the conference thereafter. It was while onboard the Augusta that Truman sent the approval for Hiroshima bombing.
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/\ Both most interesting and incredible! That's what I call... 'first hand knowledge.' Something tells me there could be a great deal more of these remembrances.
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Unreliable sources report an early morning meeting of the Facial Systems Group at Disney Animatronics. Apparently, there were issues with the recent "live" test.
A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
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Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
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[Yahoo!] Multiple police-driven vehicles used to transport Chicago Mayor 
In 2020, Chicago Tribune reported that the city of Chicago dismissed the majority of tickets that were issued to Lightfoot's security team, which included tickets given at times the mayor was attending non-city related events.
Jones, in her comments to the St. Louis American, equated his lawsuit to a "bully" tactic.
