California has always been like that, they claim to be environmentally
fiendly yet often don't practice it themselves. However the fault really
is
your fault for not having the proper bribe money handy :)
"Cycle America/Nat. Bicycle Greenway" <NBG@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote in message
news:130820031001358497%NBG@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
> We met superstar Mayor Willie Brown in his beautiful San Francisco
> City Hall office yesterday! After passing thru the security metal
> detectors, Jim Parky Wetherell, Jim Muellner and myself were then led
> thru several offices and hallways before we got to Willie's richly
> paneled room. It was "guarded" by two more members of his staff,
> Geraldine and Caroline who sat just outside his door. We visited with
> them for fifteen or so minutes while we awaited his return.
>
> And when he got there a whole new level of excitement and fury seemed
> to prevail. Suddenly the anti room we had waited in was filled with
> people waiting to see him. He motioned for us to come inside where he
> talked about the excitement he felt for Lance Armstrong's recent Tour
> De France win. In the fifteen minutes we got of his attention, when he
> told us that he loves to take his family out and bike Golden Gate park
> and that he "cheats" now with an electric bike, I made sure to ask him
> what happened back in '97 when he squashed Critical Mass. He looked at
> me with his fun loving happy eyes and said, "Those guys and I talk all
> the time and I told them I wasn't going to let them shut down the
> city." Motioning with his arms he continued, "You just can't have a few
> hundred bikes going here and few hundred going there all over the city
> slowing everything down." And even after he left a black mark on
> Critical Mass rides that remains today, you can see how he got away
> with it. He's just pure loveable. He makes you want to be sup****t him
> -- WoW.
>
> And he made sure that the proclamation we got was inside of a handsome
> brass frame. And to make sure that all three of us were celebrated
> with it, he recruited one of the people who was waiting for him to take
> a picture of all of us with the National Bicycle Greenway Day
> citation. And check this out, the man behind the camera was Joe
> Lieberman's presidential campaign manager! Here's the photo:
>
> http://www.bikeroute.com/NationalMayorsRide//SanFrancisco2003/SFMainWill
> ie+3,jog
>
> Because Willie had expressed an interest in my story, I felt so proud
> to give him a signed copy of my book. Especially when I saw the genuine
> appreciation and respect that he rewarded me with. As we were leaving,
> I asked him if he would help us build the NBG. And when he said YES, I
> didn't even ask for details. I just know we've got a major power player
> on our side!!
>
> Yahoooo!!
>
> btw: Palo Alto and Mayor Dena Mossar in a few hours!!
> btw2: THX to Kristin Holland for getting us into see Da Mayor!!
> btw3: Festival this Sunday
> http://www.nationalbicyclegreenway.com/Events/Festival
>
> MARTIN KRIEG: "Awake Again" Author c/o BikeRoute.com
> 79 & 86 TransAms, nonprofit Nat. Bicycle Greenway CEO
> Ever wanted anything so bad U were willing to die for it?
> Really die? By moving thru clinical death and reversing
> paralysis, *I saw God* when I answered that question.
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