The front-runner for the Republican nomination in the Colorado governor’s race is causing a stir with claims that his likely Democratic opponent, Mayor John Hickenlooper of Denver, is bringing the city under United Nations control by promoting bike riding and other sustainability measures.
“This is all very well-disguised, but it will be exposed,” Dan Maes, a Tea Party favorite, told supporters at a recent campaign rally, according to The Denver Post.
Questioned by a Post reporter, Mr. Maes said that his comments referred to Denver’s membership in the International Council for Local Environmental Initiatives, a coalition of roughly 1,200 member cities from nearly 70 countries that was founded to promote sustainable development.
Mr. Hickenlooper’s signature bicycling initiative is called B-Cycle, and provides about 400 red bicycles for rent around the city.
“At first, I thought, ‘Gosh, public transportation, what’s wrong with that, and what’s wrong with people parking their cars and riding their bikes? And what’s wrong with incentives for green cars?’ But if you do your homework and research, you realize ICLEI is part of a greater strategy to rein in American cities under a United Nations treaty,” Mr. Maes said of the organization, which was established in 1990 during a conference at the United Nations headquarters in New York.
He added: “This is bigger than it looks like on the surface, and it could threaten our personal freedoms.”
A spokesman for the mayor pointed out that Denver’s membership in the group dates back to 1992. Mr. Hickenlooper was elected mayor in 2003.
Mr. Maes, who has been endorsed by Tea Party groups in the state, surged to front-runner status in the Republican primary after his opponent, Scott McInnis, admitted to multiple instances of plagiarism in research articles for which he was paid $300,000.
In the aftermath of the revelations, Mr. McInnis tumbled badly in the polls and Mr. Maes pulled narrowly ahead.
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Hmm the plagarist or the conspiracy theorist? I think I'll take the former.
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General Mung Beans wrote:Hmm the plagarist or the conspiracy theorist? I think I'll take the former.
At least a plagiarist might rip-off somebody who had good ideas. The nutjob is likely to make fruit cobbler illegal on the grounds that it's an evil communist conspiracy.
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Way to overwork a metaphor Shadow. I feel really creeped out now.
I am an artist, metaphorical mind-fucks are my medium.
Sadly my plans for leaving this state are still a few more years off. On the positive side I'll be surprised if this assclown actually manages to get elected.
"It's you Americans. There's something about nipples you hate. If this were Germany, we'd be romping around naked on the stage here."
I seriously doubt this tool's going to get anywhere. Looking at my ballot, Hickenlooper is the only Democratic candidate, and he'd have to fuck this up pretty badly to lose.
(also my dad is on the ballot, woo )
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Brother-Captain Gaius wrote:I seriously doubt this tool's going to get anywhere. Looking at my ballot, Hickenlooper is the only Democratic candidate, and he'd have to fuck this up pretty badly to lose.
Oh, that's pretty rich. He can't even tone it down by saying that bicycling and green cars are economically unviable or something and strain some logic to make it bad for the state? Something that didn't hit the rocks on Crazy Coast and begin to capsize?
Like people who make explosives or meth, politicians who spout off about the UN taking over America via bicycling is a self correcting problem.
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ShadowDragon8685 wrote: The nutjob is likely to make fruit cobbler illegal on the grounds that it's an evil communist conspiracy.
Only the cherry, strawberry, and rhubarb cobblers. The other kinds are politically neutral.
Rhubarb cobbler should be outlawed, but for an entirely different reason: it's a fucking abomination of the culinary arts. But he can have my cherry cobbler when he pries it from my cold, dead hands!
CaptainChewbacca wrote:Dude...
Way to overwork a metaphor Shadow. I feel really creeped out now.
I am an artist, metaphorical mind-fucks are my medium.
ShadowDragon8685 wrote: The nutjob is likely to make fruit cobbler illegal on the grounds that it's an evil communist conspiracy.
Only the cherry, strawberry, and rhubarb cobblers. The other kinds are politically neutral.
Rhubarb cobbler should be outlawed, but for an entirely different reason: it's a fucking abomination of the culinary arts. But he can have my cherry cobbler when he pries it from my cold, dead hands!
Well as a famous mechanical construct of war once told me, 'Better dead than red'.
If he's holding a cherry cobbler, killing him will probably break it, at which point he will be both dead and red... how does that fit into the big guy's programming?
Patrick Degan wrote:Because, obviously, bicycling any other mode of modern ground transportation except a privately owned car or truck with a large gasoline engine is COMMUNISM!
ShadowDragon8685 wrote: The nutjob is likely to make fruit cobbler illegal on the grounds that it's an evil communist conspiracy.
Only the cherry, strawberry, and rhubarb cobblers. The other kinds are politically neutral.
Rhubarb cobbler should be outlawed, but for an entirely different reason: it's a fucking abomination of the culinary arts. But he can have my cherry cobbler when he pries it from my cold, dead hands!
Hey, a friend of mine once made some very tasty banana-rhubarb pie.
Mr. Maes, who has been endorsed by Tea Party groups in the state
Needless to say, retards endorse retards.
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