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Arizona is shutting down and removing all state-operated highway speed cameras, effective July 16. Apparently they were instituted two years ago by then-Governor Janet Napolitano — yes, that Janet Napolitano — but haven't lived up to her projected $90 million annual revenue, not least because reportedly only 30% of Arizona speed-camera tickets have ever been paid.
Among those who criticized the financial motives of the system was Gov. Jan Brewer, then-secretary of state.
"She did not support the state photo-radar system because it appeared from the beginning to be designed exclusively as a revenue generator," Paul Senseman, a Brewer spokesman, said in an e-mail.
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