Alder Pham-Remmele makes it sound as if the goal is to force everyone to ride a bike. How did she find out about our top-secret plans?
===== darin ---- Michael Rewey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Unbelievable. I hope they put that in the minutes! That could make national > press. > > Mike > > ******************************* > > On 9 Apr 2008 at 11:04, David Vogt wrote: > > Matt, you're forgetting Alder Thuy's most memorable reason for voting against > adoption: > We're too fat to bike. > > Her actual quote (I'm NOT making this up): "How is a 300-pound person going > to ride a > bike?" > > Truth is indeedstranger than fiction... > -- > David L. Vogt > Deputy Executive Director > Bicycle Federation of Wisconsin > 106 E Doty St, Suite 400 > Madison, WI 53703 > 608.251.4456 (Office) > 414.426.0424 (Mobile) > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > BIKUS NON-LUBRIUM BUSTICUS > > Original Message: > > By a 19-1 vote, the Council adopted the Mayor's Platinum Biking > Committee report tonight. Thanks to everyone who e-mailed the council > (they received a respectable number of e-mails) and/or spoke at the > meeting. > > The one holdout was Thuy Pham-Remmele (District 20), who cited the > recent flat-tire prank as her reason for shifting her vote from the > "yes" to the "no" column. > > Oddly enough, I am not sure it has been proven that the people > responsible (if any were caught) were bicyclists.Interestingly, many > of the victims of the prank were bicyclists. > > http://www.channel3000.com/news/15763095/detail.html > > [Oh, and by the way, our own Ann Freiwald is featured in the article > above. Way to go Ann!] > > In addition to the citing flat-tire prank, Thuy also shared her wisdom > on the impracticality of using a bicycle to drop kids off at school, run > errands, or be of any use to older people. Elections for Common Council > occur in one year. > _______________________________________________ > Bikies mailing list > [email protected] > http://www.danenet.org/mailman/listinfo/bikies _______________________________________________ Bikies mailing list [email protected] http://www.danenet.org/mailman/listinfo/bikies
