One of Mayor Greg Nickels biggest policy initiatives these days is to get people out of their cars:
Promote transportation options such as bicycle trails, commute trip reduction programs, incentives for car pooling and public transit;I've been curious about Mayor Nickels own automobile usage, so I recently submitted a records request for all of his city-paid auto expenses for 2005-2006. The city responded late yesterday: Nickels has been driving enough in the last 16 months to fill 168 pages of expense records.
I should be getting the full stack of documents later this afternoon. I already know that this will include the work orders for the Mayor's Lincoln, which was purchased in 2005, the Mayor's Cadillac, which was purchased in 2006, and the Mayor's backup car, a Ford Explorer. If only President Bush were just as committed to implementing the Kyoto Protocols!
Posted by Stefan Sharkansky at April 25, 2006 08:45 AM | Email ThisNickels believes he is too important to be troubled with the details of the mass transit schemes he has planned for us little people. And he's got a lot of showy rhetoric that casts Seattle as the Environmentalist Jewel. But that rhetoric is simply for his political aspirations as any fool can see.
Way to expose him for what he is, just another rich Democrat who uses cars like the rest of us.
Posted by: Jeff B. on April 25, 2006 09:05 AMI can see Greg looking into the camera and saying, in his best Mel Brooks voice, "It's good to be the king!"
Posted by: TB on April 25, 2006 09:28 AMLibrano motto: "Do as I say, not as I do"
Posted by: A Watchdog on April 25, 2006 10:15 AMI have a question for His Highness The Mayor:
If the buses aren't safe enough for you, why do you want ME to ride them?
Posted by: Larry on April 25, 2006 10:49 AMIt's hard to listen to the haughtiness of liberal journalists, the mayor and other politicans regarding socialist health care schemes, when they don't even take care of their own health.
Posted by: Jeff B. on April 25, 2006 11:13 AMHe sure does.
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Did yous know dat half the Mayors in the U.S. have Cataracts the udder half drive Rinclons, wes got a Mayor wid both.
Forgetaboutit
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Posted by: PW on April 25, 2006 12:18 PM"Promote transportation options such as bicycle trails, commute trip reduction programs, incentives for car pooling and public transit"
He is doing what he preaches. He is car pooling everywhere he goes! If he didn't he would have to drive himself and find a parking place!
Posted by: Fred on April 25, 2006 12:25 PMas ps, what kind of name to children of these double name people get...4names?
Posted by: righton on April 25, 2006 02:03 PMNow if I can just get that governor's gig or learn more at the next Algore enviropsycho conference maybe I will move up the ranks 'round here.
I am liberal and You will do as I say and be reeducated if you want to do what I do!
(/nicklesthinkingoff)
Green folks will build the next camps with concertina wire
If Mayor Nickelbag really wanted to show his sincerity, he would ride the bus most days and take a hybrid the rest of the time. And he would insist his security force leave their guns at home to demonstrate his support for the gun control he wants to impose on the rest of us. His is typical communist thinking--grand plans for the lowly workers while he lives the high life "because the job requires it". Gag!!
Posted by: Burdabee on April 25, 2006 05:10 PMNickels lives in West Seattle and it should not be any problem for him to walk approx 4 blocks from his home to SW Admiral Way and take Bus #57 to town. Bus #57 goes right by City Hall. Besides the exercise would do him some good
http://transit.metrokc.gov/cftemplates/show_map.cfm?BUS_ROUTE=057&DAY_NAV=W
Posted by: Janet on April 25, 2006 09:02 PMThis dug up by the ever-digging Shark, just days after Gore praises Nickles for all the great C02 reducing work he does.
The "environmentalist" Liberal mayor has a fleet of city cars that probably gets 16 City/20 Hwy, while I, a loyal conservative Republican, take the bus to work 4 days a week.
Didn't Gore once fly to a global warming conferance on a half-empty Air Force 2?
Hypocricy. Some of these "environmetalist" Libs should look it up!
Posted by: GregM on April 25, 2006 10:27 PMHe'd better NOT consider taking away the citizens right to bear arms..(He can't do it anyway - but it angers me that he thinks he can..)..He doesn't want to pay to staff his police force....Hey! *We* may be the only security on his bus lines!.....We should bill him for security work everytime we ride a bus armed!
He won't consider getting rid of illegal aliens, he wont adequately staff his police force - yet wants us to give up our right to protect our lives and property? He wants us to ride the bus while he drives in luxury?
Oh yeah......this man is smoking crack!
Posted by: Deborah on April 25, 2006 11:49 PMDeborah says "We should bill him for security work everytime we ride a bus armed!"
I love it. I'll back that measure. Deborah you are the best.
Since Nickels, Sims, Gregoire, and their ilk are so convinced of the inherent good nature and re-trainability of the human heart, and they are consistently reassured of the lockstep loyalty of their own party constituency, one is left only to conclude they believe that gun control should (must) be instituted to protect them from conservatives like me (and Deborah).
How does this fit with the FACT that ALL of the assassinations in America using guns were committed by liberals (some liberal whacko’s against other liberal whacko’s like JFK). The insanity in their ideology is self perpetuating, the inmates are currently running the asylum, and conservatives (the adults in our society) are observing what happens when ding-dongs are at the wheel. Most violent criminals are liberals, and most violent criminals who use guns are male liberals. I will take care of myself and mine regardless, but where does that leave many conservative and liberal women?
Like many fellow conservatives, I will ALWAYS OWN AND USE GUNS FOR SELF PROTECTION just as ALL of my police and military friends will -- no matter what the government says. That scares liberals, but guess what . . . many, many women who refuse to be cowed by liberal nonsense where self protection is concerned will do so as well. Liberals envision me as the "type" they need to subdue and Deborah (and some otherwise-liberal women) as the ones gun-control laws are protecting.
Given the liberal doctrine that places partisan political power at all cost ahead of individual liberty and security, they should be most concerned about Deborah. Both sides agree that GW Bush was elected by the anti-gun control element comprised of American women (liberal and conservative) in the 2000 election. They also agree that the same element of political demographic elected him once again in 2004 in light of 911 and the national defense imperative. Hopefully liberals will dismiss these facts as hogwash just like the many other crucial facts they ignore.
The fact of the matter is . . . liberals are trying to disarm the very people who protect them from themselves. It won’t work, but the idea of Nickels cutting his own throat is --in a dark sort of way-- amusing.
Thanks.
Amused....(you bad.. ;)
Shucks! I'm really a "nice" person...
Just don't try to rob, assault, rape or murder me or my family....and you'll be fine!
http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/nationworld/2002955908_milbankgas27.html
Posted by: GregM on April 27, 2006 10:43 AMSurprising the Times printed this story.
This issue is so foolish.