What Jim Belshaw said the cop said.
They make me drive more thoughtfully at Montgomery Boulevard intersections. But all that revenue - where is it going?
City Councilors Mayer and Winter had the audacity to ask. The CAO called them naive and accused them of having a political motivation for wanting to know.
... "It wouldn't be possible to tell how money from any particular program was spent," said Bruce Perlman, the city's chief administrative officer. "Dollars don't have a certain color when they come into the budget from the red-light program. That's kind of a naive and mistaken point."
So then a separate account was established - doing what Winter and Mayer were naive and mistaken about wanting. Maybe they were only naive and mistaken to believe Marty would be accountable in the first place.
... Perlman said both Mayer and Winter's motivation is political. Both are Republicans. Chávez, a Democrat, is running for the U.S. Senate.
If the motivation for wanting accountability for camera fines is political, so is saying they may come down as you begin a run for Senate. This is dealing the party card to players that know your tell.
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