BIKE: The downtown Trolley vs. "Other" Election

[Mike Dahmus]

While I completely agree with Bob's opinion of the Sammy/Bob crowd and 
their right-wing audience, I didn't observe Jennifer Kim doing anything 
to attempt to attract these idiots (including Mike Levy) to her side. 
Clarke just pissed them off more, I guess. Kim explicitly disavowed some 
of this stuff and asked one of the more egregious uninvited supporters 
to cut it out.

(and that's why I voted for Kim - neighborhoods have way TOO MUCH power 
in this city, not too little).

The 'wingers are probably not going to be any more excited with Kim than 
they would have been with Clarke, all things considered - the 'wingers 
want to destroy the center-city with more free (i.e. center-city 
subsidized) highways to the 'burbs, but Kim's emphasis looks to me to be 
for more dense downtown development so we don't have to.

And remember, more buildings downtown means more people able to bike to 
work, whether they live downtown or not! Support the office towers 
proposed for 6th/Lamar!

(http://mdahmus.thebaba.com/blog/archives/000157.html and 
http://mdahmus.thebaba.com/blog/archives/000156.html)

- MD