http://tags.library.upenn.edu/tag/philadelphia+enforcement+transportation PennTags Feed http://tags.library.upenn.edu/makerecord/url/25617 http://tags.library.upenn.edu/makerecord/url/25617 <br /><br /> <!-- startclickprintinclude --> <h1>Red lights mean green for GOP</h1> <p class="byline">By BOB WARNER<br /> Philadelphia Daily News</p> <p class="byline lastline"><a href="https://mail.google.com/mail?view=cm&amp;tf=0&amp;ui=1&amp;to=warnerb@phillynews.com" target="_blank">warnerb@phillynews.com</a> 215-854-5885</p> MORE THAN 90,000 motorists have been nailed for running red lights in the first three years of Philadelphia's camera-enforcement program. At $100 a shot, they've paid $9.1 million in fines.<p> Backers of the red-light program say the main beneficiary has been public safety.</p><p> &quot;Incidents of death, injury and property damage are dramatically down at the intersections where cameras are installed,&quot; the Parking Authority's board chairman, Joseph T. Ashdale, said in a news release last month.</p><p> Other beneficiaries include Republican Party officials and their kin.</p><p> Like the explosive growth in the Parking Authority's staff and salaries, reported last year by the <em>Daily News,</em> the red-light-camera program has created more jobs for Republican ward leaders, committeemen and their families.</p><p> It has also led to thousands of dollars in campaign contributions for GOP organizations and candidates.</p><p> More than anyone else, the contributions have flowed to state Rep. John Perzel, the Northeast Philadelphia Republican who engineered a GOP takeover of the Parking Authority in mid-2001.</p><p>&nbsp;</p><h4><br /></h4>