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Special License Plates Shield California Officials From Tickets

It's 1:45 pm on a Wednesday in February and a Toyota Camry is driving west on the 91 Express Lanes, for free, for the 470th time.

The electronic transponder on the dashboard – used to bill tollway users – is inactive. The Camry's owners, airport traffic officer Rudolph Duplessis and his wife, Loretta, have never had a toll road account, officials say.

They've never received a violation notice in the mail, either. Their car is registered as part of a state program which hides their home address on Department of Motor Vehicles records. The agency that operates the tollway does not have legal access to their address.

Their Toyota is one of 996,716 vehicles registered to motorists who are affiliated with 1,800 state and local agencies and who are allowed to shield their addresses under the Confidential Records Program.

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Special License Plates Shield California Officials From Tickets



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BoredBored - 4/9/2008 5:51:43 PM
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Considering how much people have to pay for tolls in Cali ($4-$5, currently), and the fact that the state continues to block state funding for bridge/toll improvements in the Bay Area for example, it's hard for me to be angry about this.

If hybrids like the Prius and Civic Hybrid are still allowed to go through toll booths and use HOV lanes and these "violators" were actually driving those vehicles, then it wouldn't be a big deal at all.

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KZ258KZ258 - 4/9/2008 6:30:58 PM
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KZ258KZ258 - 4/9/2008 7:51:10 PM
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you really sound pathetic btw

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SpyThissSpyThiss - 4/9/2008 11:21:40 PM
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Now that's load of horsepucky. What n'hell does being an uberliberal have to do with deserving special priviledges? And if many Obama supporters think the same way you do, he's going to lose for sure. You'd better go see The Wizard and ask for a Brain.

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AdHominemAdHominem - 4/10/2008 1:21:01 AM
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You can't be serious. You sound like a socialist. You should read The Fountainhead by Ayn Rand. Republicans are NOT the way, but neither are socialists. Read it the whole book and you will be able to see how republicans have co-opted the language of freedom, independence and individuality and perverted it. Likewise, the socialist tendencies of the left are just as wrong. Think for yourself. You do not exist to self-sacrifice yourself for the "benefit" of others, but you do have the right to create.

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AdHominemAdHominem - 4/10/2008 1:24:33 AM
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These people do not have a special privilege. They are stealing.

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fuelfoolfuelfool - 4/10/2008 2:43:37 AM
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Coprius' call for the entitlement of priviledges for the political elite (but only the ones he agrees with of course) sounds reminiscent of the old Soviet Union. While regular citizens were forced to comply with oppressive laws, the politically connected enjoyed priveleged lives. Not suprised a supporter of a candidate that espouses socialist ideology (Obama) and openly calls for vast expansion of gov't power would defend such abuses by politicians. These truly are frightening times we live in and useful idiots like Coprius and his fellow Obama supporters are so ignorant of history and the Constitutional principles the US was founded on that they are willingly undermining its foundation. That said, this type of behaviour and sense of entitlement displayed by these gov't employees is far too common. One set of rules for us. Another for themselves. Yet another example why gov't power should be limited in nature.


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Designer1Designer1 - 4/10/2008 2:46:56 AM
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Public servants my ASS!! More correctly put they're, legal thieves.

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TurboSpyderTurboSpyder - 4/10/2008 12:15:38 PMView My AgentSpace
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"And doing things for the poor that fat, white repugnicans won't do."

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You should be grateful to live in a country with "fat, white repugnicans" because the quality of life for blacks in countries where there are few whites is *much* more miserable.

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goochgooch - 4/10/2008 3:05:38 PM
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TurboSpyder please do not assume coprius is black. Your post makes it sound that way. Obama supporters come in all stripes of the rainbow.

Coprius, I dare you to tell this retired Marine that his service wasn't honorable. I'll knock your a-- back to the Cold War. Don't say stuff here that you wouldn't say to someone's face.

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LACMANLACMAN - 4/10/2008 4:18:29 AMView My AgentSpace
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"Public servants my ASS!! More correctly put they're, legal thieves." -Designer1

***Couldnt have said it better***

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993Turbo993Turbo - 4/10/2008 8:11:41 AM
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What did you expect from Califonia and their Commy systems. Do as I say, not as I do!

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gsh23gsh23 - 4/10/2008 5:58:18 PM
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lets not forget reagan! that damn commie!

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fuelfoolfuelfool - 4/10/2008 7:23:29 PM
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Sadly, the Reagan era of California politics has long since passed. Today we have a legislature full of liberal politicians more concerned with giving driver's licenses to illegal aliens and trying to pass a law that gives the gov't the right to remotely control the thermostats inside the homes of private citizens. Yes, that's right. California democrats really do want to control every aspect of our lives—even the air we breath. Scary stuff.

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ChicaneShooterChicaneShooter - 4/11/2008 7:08:11 AM
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public sector payrolls USED TO BE below those in the private sector. reasoning was: 1) public servants should be more self-sacrificing, and more importantly 2) they had more JOB SECURITY.

with unionization, most public sector salaries are now EQUAL if not higher than comparable jobs in private sector. and they STILL have more job security.

in effect, their extra pay/security is SUBSIDIZED by taxpayers. now they get ADDITIONAL privileges?



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Hatemachine777Hatemachine777 - 4/12/2008 8:21:03 AM
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Coprius and all you other military haters out there are a bunch of assclowns. I believe it was George Orwell who said "People sleep peacefully in their beds only because tough men stand ready to do violence on their behalf." You need to pull your head out of your ass and be grateful of the fact that there are men and women who give up a lot of the freedoms you enjoy. You don't show up for work you find another job; A soldier doesn't show up for work he/she is arrested.You wake up in the morning sick and you call in, A soldier wakes up sick and hopes he is sick enough for his chain of command to ALLOW him to go to sick call (6 mile runs in 35lbs of body armor are really no fun when you have a stomach virus). You want to travel to a town a couple hours from home you simply get in your car. A soldier must submit paperwork containing addresses of where he will stay,contact numbers,as well as a reason for going to his chain of command pending their approval. If he/she doesn't have permission and gets caught outside a 50 mile radius of post then the service can take half his pay for up to three months,put him on restriction for up to 3 months(house arrest),and work him from 6:30am until 11:30pm 7 days a week for up to three months, as well as take away rank.
You should appreciate the men and women with the intestinal fortitude to leave everything they've ever known and put themselves in harms way on a daily basis simply because that's what they were told to do. These people are the sheepdogs that stand watch cold,tired, and hungry; yet ever ready to move at the sound of a wolf in the distance while you lazily graze thinking only of your next instant gratification. What do they expect in return? Nothing, except for a level of respect.I don't mean the bowing down and saying "oh I'm not worthy." respect either. The respect I speak of is the kind of respect where the military isn't isn't vilified. The kind of respect where our own people don't rejoice at the deaths of members of he military, respect so that parents and wives can bury their loved ones in peace without some demonstration march a hundred meters away.
I am the Infantry.
I am my country's strength in war.
Her deterrent in peace.
I am the heart of the fight...
wherever, whenever.
I carry America's faith and honor
against her enemies.
I am the Queen of Battle.
I am what my country expects me to be...
the best trained solider in the world.
In the race for victory
I am swift, determined, and courageous,
armed with a fierce will to win.
Never will I betray my country's trust.
Always I fight on...
through the foe,
to the objective,
to triumph over all,
If necessary, I will fight to my death.
By my steadfast courage,
I have won more than 200 years of freedom.
I yield not to weakness,
to hunger,
to cowardice,
to fatigue,
to superior odds,
for I am mentally tough, physically strong,
and morally straight.
I forsake not...
my country,
my mission
my comrades,

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Hatemachine777Hatemachine777 - 4/12/2008 8:23:45 AM
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my sacred duty.
I am relentless.
I am always there,
now and forever.
I Am The Infantry!
Follow Me!

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r_driver04r_driver04 - 4/14/2008 11:33:15 AM
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Membership does have its privileges.

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