>From my standpoint, I agree with Soglin about winter biking. Call it pain avoidance.
But more importantly, Paul Soglin backed me when I organized winter maintenance - snow and ice removal - on city bike paths including the SW Bike Path over the concerns of his own staff that we were completing the bike paths before streets. Let's move forward. Larry D. Nelson -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of [email protected] Sent: Friday, April 08, 2011 1:07 PM To: STRAWSER, Charles Cc: [email protected] Subject: Re: [Bikies] Invite Mayor Soglin From anyone else, these comments could be laughed off as ignorant. But from a self-important, self-described leader like Soglin, this is sad. He actually has some control over biking in the city, such as whether the paths get plowed. I think he should apologize. Quoting "STRAWSER, Charles" <[email protected]>: > If there have been hateful remarks made, they were not made by those > questioning his remarks on this list (unless I missed something). They were > made by Paul Soglin. And I'm not even talking about the 2007 comment that he > said was tongue-in-cheek. I'm talking about what he said less than ten days > ago while campaigning outside the Willy St Co-op: "people who bike in winter > should have their head examined." > > _______________________________________________ Bikies mailing list [email protected] http://lists.danenet.org/listinfo.cgi/bikies-danenet.org _______________________________________________ Bikies mailing list [email protected] http://lists.danenet.org/listinfo.cgi/bikies-danenet.org
