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Special rights for the government while the rest of us have our hard earned money stolen from us when we do not need feed the meter the required $2.00 per hour.

Watch the video at the following link:

United States of Special Rights and Double Standards

Everyday at the Armed Forces Recruitment Center in Hollywood, CA, military personnel park their cars illegally in meter spots and red zones (sometimes three cars deep). All of which, would get minion civilians and non-government employees parking tickets and towed if they parked their vehicle in this section of red zone.

The actions from these government workers is costing local businesses, the city of Los Angeles, and it’s residents hundreds to thousands of dollars each day in lost revenue.

More important, city officials have chosen to support this kind of behavior from their fellow government chronies, but at the same time have raised parking rates and citation fees on the rest of us, arguing that the city is losing money.

ladot.lacity.org/pdf/PDF123.pdf

1/1/2009
State of CA Increases Parking Citation Penalties by $3.00 Effective Immediately
The CA State legislature recently passed a court construction cost bill that increases state-wide penalties to pay for these costs. The bill, SB 1407, includes a $3.00 penalty imposed per parking citation. This is in addition to the existing $1.50 penalty per parking citation. Parking Citations issued by LADOT will now have a comment printed on the bottom of the ticket stating that “the fine includes a $4.50 State penalty effective

Kinda ironic isn’t it?

Let me also remind everyone, that the city vehicles driven by our top-notch city council members and their associates are exempt from paying meter fees and will not be cited for pretty much anything in this city.

Is this really a government of the people, by the people, for the people? I think not.

To yell on deaf ears contact the following:

Eric Garcetti
Councilman, 13th District
Phone: 323-957-4500
Email: Councilmember.Garcetti@lacity.org
Twitter: @ericgarcetti

Tom LaBonge
Councilmember, 4th District
Phone: (323) 957-6415
Email: tom.labonge@lacity.org

U.S. Armed Forces Center
7080 HOLLYWOOD BLVD 108A
Los Angeles, CA 90028
323-467-2025

It’s like Groundhog Day in Hollywood as the U.S. military keeps on parking their government issued vehicles in red zones while parking enforcement and city officials play dumb and dumber. Hopefully, one day I’ll wake up and these cars won’t be parked here, but we all know the trouble and lunacy Bill Murray went through in order for things to change. And I’m not sure if I have the energy to bang my head against the office walls of Tom Labonge and Eric Garcetti.

Stay tuned for some videos which include a discussion with a man associated with the recruitment center regarding their illegally parked vehicles. According to him, the city/government has granted these government employees special rights while the rest us get ticketed or towed for doing the exact same thing.

So who else is wondering what other special rights are given to government workers in this city?

It’s like Groundhog Day in Hollywood as the U.S. military keeps on parking their government issued vehicles in red zones while parking enforcement and city officials play dumb and dumber. Hopefully, one day I’ll wake up and these cars won’t be parked here, but we all know the trouble and lunacy Bill Murray went through in order for things to change. And I’m not sure if I have the energy to bang my head against the office walls of Tom Labonge and Eric Garcetti.

Stay tuned for some videos which include a discussion with a man associated with the recruitment center regarding their illegally parked vehicles. According to him, the city/government has granted these government employees special rights while the rest us get ticketed or towed for doing the exact same thing.

So who else is wondering what other special rights are given to government workers in this city?

It’s like Groundhog Day in Hollywood as the U.S. military keeps on parking their government issued vehicles in red zones while parking enforcement and city officials play dumb and dumber. Hopefully, one day I’ll wake up and these cars won’t be parked here, but we all know the trouble and lunacy Bill Murray went through in order for things to change. And I’m not sure if I have the energy to bang my head against the office walls of Tom Labonge and Eric Garcetti.

Stay tuned for some videos which include a discussion with a man associated with the recruitment center regarding their illegally parked vehicles. According to him, the city/government has granted these government employees special rights while the rest us get ticketed or towed for doing the exact same thing.

So who else is wondering what other special rights are given to government workers in this city?