Governor Deval Patrick is raiding the pockets of Massachusetts bikers!

It is true. It seems our governor is a thief. By law, two dollars of every motorcycle registration fee is mandated to be placed into the Motorcycle Safety Fund. But this governor has been raiding it!

The Massachusetts General Law he is breaking reads as follows under MGL Chapter 90 Section 34:

"Notwithstanding the first paragraph, $2 from each motorcycle registration fee shall be paid by the registrar or by the person collecting the registration fee into the General Fund and shall be appropriated solely for the purpose of promoting and advancing motorcycle safety"

The governor wants to give illegal immigrants in-state tuition breaks. Maybe the governors plan is to use your Motorcycle Safety Fund monies to do that? Imagine that? He cares more about giving illegal immigrants drivers licenses than he does about your safety! What a P.O.S.

Motorcyclists in Massachusetts have to come together on this and vote this bum out of office. Let's give all these politicians something to think about... GO VOTE!

Primary Election is: Tuesday 14th September 2010

General Election is: Tuesday 2nd November 2010

MARK YOUR CALENDARS!!

 

That's sad....got to love Ma

 

I'm not even surprised by this crap anymore! I'm not sure how much help Baker will be, its the goons in the legislature that are running this state into the ground. Not that Deval is helping matters!

 

Here is copy/pasted text of Massachusetts Motorcycle Association press release of complaint filed in Suffolk Superior Court....


MMA Files Complaint concerning Motorcycle Safety Fund
Thursday, September 02, 2010
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
MMA Files Complaint concerning Motorcycle Safety Fund

On Thursday September 2, 2010 the Massachusetts Motorcycle Association (MMA) filed a complaint in Suffolk Superior Court against the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, specifically Governor Deval Patrick, Secretary of Transportation Jeffery Mullan, and Registrar of Motor Vehicles Rachael Kaprelian in regard to the Massachusetts Motorcycle Safety Fund.

The complaint requests that the court order the defendants to conduct an accounting of all monies derived from motorcycle registrations by Massachusetts General Law (MGL) Chapter 90 Section 34 for each of the calendar years 2000 through 2010. Additionally, the complaint requests that the court order the defendants to reinstate those monies to the Motorcycle Safety Fund.

"It's a shame it had to come to this,” stated MMA Chairman Dave Condon, "but we were left no choice. Numerous inquiries concerning this issue were made by MMA Board Members to state officials which all fell on deaf ears." Condon continued, "Our number one mission is to protect the motorcyclists of this state; this is their money and we will not back down on this. Now it's up to the courts to decide."

As previously reported, the MMA first became aware of money being removed from our safety fund in January of this year, when Governor Patrick eliminated the line item from the state budget under his Transportation Reform Act and placed the Registry of Motor Vehicles (RMV) under the direction of the Department of Transportation (DOT). On January 6, 2010 the MMA met with officials from the registry of Motor Vehicles to voice our concerns; it was a meeting that produced no concrete results. Since then, the MMA has on numerous occasions requested follow-up meetings with both the Governor's Office and the officials from the Department of Transportation. All requests to date have been ignored.

Recently, through communications received from the RMV, it became quite clear that the situation has gotten much worse and there is a true possibility they are considering very limited to no funding at all for the Motorcycle Safety Fund. For example, the MMA was recently invited to participate with RMV officials in establishing a “realistic budget” for the fund. The MMA Board Members voted unanimously that as far as we were concerned there is a budget already established by state law: the sum of $2.00 dollars per motorcycle registration per year. It was further agreed by the MMA Board that for us to participate in such discussions would be hypocritical and that until this matter is resolved, we would only then be willing to discuss how such money should be spent to benefit the Motorcyclists of Massachusetts.

"This is ridiculous," stated Condon, "there is a state law on the books that defines what is the ‘sole’ purpose that this money is to be used for, and the governor is choosing to ignore that law. How come he can just arbitrarily ignore a law and it's called ‘reform’? If I chose to ignore a law it would be called a ‘crime’ and I would have to pay the state imposed penalties for that!"

The MMA will keep its members and the general riding public updated on this situation as it moves through the courts. For more information please contact chairman@massmotorcycle.org or visit http://www.massmotorcycle.org.

 

You want thievery. I just paid $301 for registering my new 2011 Street Bob here in New Hampshire.

 

And they say New Hampshire is "tax-free", ha!

 

unfortunately, the polls show MA voters may put this idiot back in for 4 more years.

I always say - don't blame the politicians - blame the voters who put them there.

 

You gotta love the bleeding hearts lib's in this state. I thought that the key word in illegal immigrants was ILLEGAL. Not in the state. Sad very sad.

 

You all gotta make sure you go out and vote against this fuggtard governor on Nov 2nd.

Get 5 more to go vote also.

 

Twelve more days till election day. This bum is actually ahead in most polls.

Step up to the plate people!