NY Man Arrested for Cutting Wires to Red Light Cameras (2016)

Re:NY Man Arrested for Cutting Wires to Red Light Cameras (2... by JumpCrisscross on Monday October 29, 2018 @05:40PM (#18331781)

> instead they almost always just vote party-line no matter who is on the ballot

This is a really hard single issue to run on. You’d probably have to have a law enforcement or prosecutorial background, to avoid looking soft on crime. And you’d have to tell wealthy voters how you’re going to replace the lost revenue. In a wealthy county like Suffolk, these are tough sells.

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Re:NY Man Arrested for Cutting Wires to Red Light Cameras (2... by wowzap on Tuesday October 30, 2018 @09:28AM (#18336233)

Somebody actually ran on this ticket a few years back and lost - their campaign signs said something along the lines of "RED LIGHT CAMERAS ARE UNCONSTITUTIONAL". The revenue question is more a matter of ideology. You could always tell them that before the sixteenth amendment the only revenue our government needed came from excise taxes and tariffs... it's not like there's no precedent for funding a country without red-light cameras, or income tax for that matter.

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Re:NY Man Arrested for Cutting Wires to Red Light Cameras (2... by JumpCrisscross on Tuesday October 30, 2018 @09:55AM (#18336457)

> The revenue question is more a matter of ideology

Practically, it’s a matter of raising taxes or cutting services. That’s what makes it a tough platform to run on.

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