The Red Light District, Extortion Edition
Thanks to Publius Forum for shining a spotlight on this latest slap in the face of taxpayers by the Stroger Administration.
This one deals with the Stroger Administrations’ response to suburban Cook County municipalities who have chosen to opt-out of the wrongheaded, troubling Red Light Traffic Camera program:
To mollify the suburban cities the board included an opt out clause in its red-light camera rules. If the cities didn’t want them, they could opt out and keep them out of their areas. Stroger and his extortionist buddies were shocked, though, when “nearly every Northwest Cook County town proceeded to opt out” of his grab for suburban driver’s wallets.
What to do, what to do? Stroger was losing his new revenue stream. How could they stop it?
Eureka! Toddie had an idea…
He could illicitly hold back all maintenance fees for the roads in the offending opting out suburbs until they decide to let him put his red-light leeches in their cities.
So, according to Cook County’s criminal boss, if the suburbs don’t let him have his red-light cameras to bleed the citizens for one more drop of tax blood, why he’ll refuse to fix the country roads in their area.
Please click here to read our previous post about the profiteers and lobbyists behind the Red Light Camera scam.
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