WCBSTV reports:

There�s a new war between Mayor Michael Bloomberg and state lawmakers over more red-light cameras on New York City streets.

The mayor wants to �out� every lawmaker who won�t green light city plans for more of those �eye in the sky� ticket givers, reports CBS 2�s Marcia Kramer.

Bloomberg loves his red-light cameras, and why not? The 150 he has brought in a whopping $52 million last year. What he doesn�t love are Albany lawmakers who won�t let him install more. So on Monday he proposed a way to bring them to their knees.

�We can put cameras on every single intersection. You just can�t use them. Maybe what we should do is do it and start publishing in the paper list of the senators and assemblymen who keep us from having cameras,� Bloomberg said.

Apparently he thinks the embarrassment or voter anger might help round up the necessary votes. He said red-light cameras save lives � the people who get hit by motorists running red lights.

�Every time there�s somebody hit it would be nice to say, okay, assemblyman and senator so and so didn�t think that person�s life � these are the lives of our people we�re talking about,� Bloomberg said.

The mayor made the proposal at a press conference attended by a number of state lawmakers.

Kramer asked Democratic State Sen. Daniel Squadron of Brooklyn if he�s in favor of the idea of embarrassing lawmakers to get them to support the idea.

�Look, the number one factor with these cameras is privacy, so when you start talking about the scarlet �A� I think that�s a very different thing than increasing the number,� Squadron said.

(Source: WCBSTV)