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doeriver

(793 posts)
Sat May 11, 2013, 07:46 PM May 2013

TNGA Rep. Jon Lundberg Can't Drive Forty-Five



Lawmaker cited for speeding by traffic camera cosponsors bill to take it down
http://nashvillecitypaper.com/content/city-news/lawmaker-cited-speeding-traffic-camera-cosponsors-bill-take-it-down

Friday, May 10, 2013 at 12:27pm
By Andrea Zelinski

A state lawmaker whose vehicle was shown speeding by a traffic camera in upper East Tennessee co-sponsored a bill to take that camera down this year.

Rep. Jon Lundberg (R-Bristol) was cited for driving 60 miles an hour in a 45 mile-per-hour zone while driving in Bluff City in 2010, just weeks before voters elected him to a third election. The photo-enforced traffic cameras did not show images of the driver, and Lundberg said an employee of his public relations firm was driving the company vehicle at the time.

The traffic camera speeding ticket “has absolutely zero effect” on his decision to sponsor the bill, Lundberg told The City Paper. “In fact, until you said that, I completely forgot about that.”

Lundberg was cited after his 1998 Ford F15 was pictured driving 15-miles over the speed limit just after lunchtime on Oct. 21, 2010. The $90 fine was paid. Because the traffic camera images do not include a photo of the driver, the ticket is considered a non-moving infraction...(more)


Tennessee General Assembly - Rep. Jon Lundberg
R-Bristol
District 1 — Part of Sullivan County
District address
212 Skyline Drive
Bristol, TN 37620

Nashville address
301 6th Avenue North
Suite 20 Legislative Plaza
Nashville, TN 37243
Phone (615) 741-7623
Fax (615) 253-0272
rep.jon.lundberg@capitol.tn.gov
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TNGA Rep. Jon Lundberg Can't Drive Forty-Five (Original Post) doeriver May 2013 OP
We need all these laws to apply to "the rest of you rubes". southerncrone May 2013 #1

southerncrone

(5,506 posts)
1. We need all these laws to apply to "the rest of you rubes".
Thu May 16, 2013, 01:52 AM
May 2013

As soon as these hypocritical jerks find themselves "victim" of their own mandates, they swiftly act to change them. Just look at the sequester & the quick vote to add back more TSA employees when it made life inconvenient for them. Hypocrites, plain & simple.

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