A reader sent me this information today.
Dear Elaine,
Thank you for your honest blogging. I’ve been reading it since Day One. I have been following the parking ticket issues closely. I read where someone on your blog wrote:
Anonymous said...
While I think it's good that Dave and Dave and Bill and Bill and other are bring these things to light. Have you ever considered that the reason they don’t listen is because of the way you express yourselves? In the last 3 PA posts you have attacked the municipality, the fomer PA board, the Auditor, the solicitor, the employees. After reading the way they are treated I would ignore you too. Maybe if you were nicer they would listen. Maybe not.
I’ve also read things on your blog about how people don’t do anything about the wrongs that are happening, so I decided to hunt for ways to expose the people whose unpaid parking tickets have caused this mess. The people who are responsible for not collecting the ticket money are not doing their jobs. Therefore, I started to research parking tickets and found how millions and millions of dollars are not paid to towns and cities all over the Commonwealth and even the Nation. If you break the law, you should have to pay the consequences. I found House Bill 737 and saw that this Bill has been sitting in the Transportation Committee for 16 months. Why would it be sitting there for 16 months? So I made calls to all the legislators, including Matt Smith at 412-571-2169. He called me back today and thanked me for calling him about the Bill I found. He called the Transportation committee where this bill is hung up at and “signed on to it” and is “pushing” for this bill to be discussed in committee. He asked me to get the word out and said I could put it on the blog. He said to post “Leadership” Mike Turzai’s office, at 717-772-9943 so that this Bill can get going.
If we are nice, we get ignored and the aggressive people get their fields turfed with our money while streets are not getting fixed, unless we float bonds. I hope your readers call Mike Turzai’s office.
