tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6955311294411328562.post1068507230051821105..comments2023-08-18T11:40:19.852-06:00Comments on Los Alamos and Santa Fe Bikes: My response to the LAB anti-hate speech solicitationScotthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10105951751896463667noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6955311294411328562.post-72902293058633104642008-11-25T06:28:00.000-07:002008-11-25T06:28:00.000-07:00There are issues. Seen this site?http://www.labref...There are issues. Seen this site?<BR/>http://www.labreform.org/<BR/><BR/>Some think that adding the appointed board members indeed amounts to stacking the deck against those freely elected. As though the ruling party could decide to appoint thirty newly created Senators to the U.S. Senate; people whom they agree with. I'd have to sit down with Andy and ask him that question bluntly. <BR/><BR/>I think the League has massively improved from a decade ago when I had some pretty sour experiences with them--both a former Exec. Director and a former Board member. That said, any org can improve and so can LAB.<BR/><BR/>One of the reasons I have not pushed BFC too hard here is that I think we need to work out what we want in Los Alamos rather than take a script from Dee Cee.Khalhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11866897914538110672noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6955311294411328562.post-80489358038919906792008-11-24T21:25:00.000-07:002008-11-24T21:25:00.000-07:00I read on a recent blog, http://cycledallas.blogsp...I read on a recent blog, http://cycledallas.blogspot.com/, about fraudulent board elections and loss of purpose recently (2003) by the LAB. Is this the same group?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6955311294411328562.post-40801692050195057262008-11-23T11:01:00.000-07:002008-11-23T11:01:00.000-07:00Andy Clarke, Exec. Director of the League of Ameri...Andy Clarke, Exec. Director of the League of American Bicyclists, sent out a letter soliciting $$ in order to counteract stuff like the following quote:<BR/><BR/>"If you are on the road, you deserve to get hit. I see these fools all the time on the damn road when there is a sidewalk there".<BR/>-comment in an online discussion forum in the Miami Herald, responding to a news item that a cab driver had plowed into a group of ten cyclists on an empty causeway.<BR/><BR/>My comment was that online forums, especially when allowed to be anonymous (such as Topix), promote all sorts of ugly comments. Cyclists are just another target. If one wants to re-civilize people, its gonna be a big job and goes beyond just protecting cyclists from such comments.Khalhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11866897914538110672noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6955311294411328562.post-32924951773686315652008-11-22T11:28:00.000-07:002008-11-22T11:28:00.000-07:00Not quite sure I follow what just happened.Not quite sure I follow what just happened.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com