Sonny “Feel Good RINO” Perdue today signed the “super-speeder” legislation into law. As the AJC reports, “[d]rivers caught speeding faster than 85 mph on four-lane highways and interstates or 75 mph on two-lane roads will face a new $200 fine (in addition to existing fines).”
This legislation, we are told, will generate $23 million a year to help Georgia’s trauma hospitals. But how was this number determined? And what keeps Municipal Courts, Recorder’s Courts and State Courts from simply lowering the speed defendants are charged as traveling in order to ensure that fees do not because so exorbitant that there is an increase in demands for trial, which will overload an already strained criminal justice system?
Make a mental note to check in on this in a year. Dollars to donuts we will find that it has not generated anywhere near the monies we were told it would. But that’s Sonny Perdue for you…fluff, bluff and not a lot of stuff.
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We need a Republican governor not afraid to veto this kind of stuff.
Nothing but more authorized harassment of the citizens. What bullsqueeze!
2010 just can’t get here fast enough.
Lancer, this crap orignated from the Governor’s office…and anyone who thinks this money will be dedicated to trauma care is drinking whatever I drank last night. Absent a const. amendment, money cannot be dedicated and just goes directly into the general fund.
I don’t see how 85mph on 4-lane or 75mph on two-lane roads affects a vast majority of people. Unless you’re that guy from Outcast that was doing double the speed limit it will simply not apply to rational drivers.
We should be petitioning to raise the speed limit, not complaining about raising the fines on something we already recognize as illegal.
My wife is a prosecutor and she has said this law is pretty much a joke. The number of not guilty pleas they get will skyrocket, and the cost to the local jurisdictions will skyrocket, while the state gets to keep the money.
Plus, police are against it, because more ticket challenges means more time in court, which means more time off the streets.
I am not one that ever exceeds these speeds, so it does not affect me, but I still think the law stinks and it demonstrates how much of a pandering mental midget our current governor is. In short, he is as Dumb as an Ox.
And don’t forget this is the way Republicans now pass a tax increase without passing a tax increase. If trauma care deserves additional funds then take it form the general fund.
The fine this bill creates is given after the ruling, so judges can’t lower or remove it.
how about a super obstructionist law that would target all the idiots blocking traffic by driving slow in the left lane.
This kind of nonsensical/intrusive crap coming from a “republican” controlled government is exactly why the dems are/have taking over.
+1 to aquaman.
…also, the Super Speeder provision is only a small part of the legislation…the rest of it is one fee increase after another after another after another….all related to reinstating drivers’ licenses. This is what our General Assembly did all session, increased taxes.
What prize do I get if the trauma centers are still underfunded after this measure?
I will speed for the traumatized.
I am surprised they did not designate part of the funds for children’s hospitals, then they could have said it was “…for the children.”
It is easy to go 85 on I85, I75 and I985. Personally I think the slow drivers should be ticketed. They are the ones causing all the slow moving traffic.
The GOP raises yet another tax that will cause more congestion by those not wishing to pay it and then the GOP will most likely attempt to raise taxes again next year to fund a transportation problem that they continue to make worse with assinine laws like this one.
But, the conservative GOP is for free market solutions, freedom and less taxes…Hannity said so… yeah, right.
I know, I know… it’s for the children.
I have a novel idea, why don’t parents support their own children. It’s no one’s job but mommy and daddy…
Keep right except to pass. Folks who don’t mind that should be fined $2000.
We need more high speed volunteer enforcers like me. When some JACKASS is driving slow in a fast lane ride his ass, flash your high beams, whatever. These people are slowing down our economy. Us “superspeeders” should be rewarded, not demonized.
Our state doesn’t pass the seat belt legislation for trucks so we need this money for trauma care. Kinda ironic or is it moronic.
B707, why should they pass the seat belt legislation? Shouldn’t the survival of the fittest apply here? If you’re too stupid to wear a seat belt, or a motorcycle helmet for that matter, then perhaps the process of natural selection should take over.
But yes, I agree with Doug here… it’s going to cost local governments quite a bit with the extra people that show up to court. Way to go shortsighted republicrat Sonny Perdue!
“Dumb as an Ox”…. I like that!
“B707, why should they pass the seat belt legislation? Shouldn’t the survival of the fittest apply here?”
So long as an EMT is allowed to refuse treatment of an accident victim not wearing a seatbelt, and not have the person transferred to a heavily government subsidized trauma center, then sure, survival of the fittest.
It’s when you ask me to pay to fix the extra injuries caused by their refusal to do something that would prevent said injuries, we have a problem.
Stapler
Tell your friends…
Do superspeeders get to put a cape and a large S on their car?
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