Colorado Tea Party Candidate Suggests Biking Is Gateway Drug to Communism

http://www.triplepundit.com/2010/08/republican-tea-party-candidate-suggests-biking-is-gateway-drug-to-communism/

 By Scott Cooney | August 9th, 2010  21 Comments

The Colorado governor’s race is still in primary season, but the barbs, predictably, are already flying between the likely candidates.  Republican front-runner Dan Maes, a darling of the Tea Party movement, will likely win the the GOP nomination to square off against Denver Mayor John Hickenlooper, a popular and well-liked Democrat who has advocated a sustainable city plan for Colorado’s biggest city.

Recently, Maes cast his strongest accusation at Hickenlooper to rile up the Republican base:  Hickenlooper apparently has had the audacity to make Denver bicycle friendly. According to Maes, it’s not “just warm, fuzzy ideas from the mayor,” but rather a conspiracy plot that “could threaten our personal freedoms,” and “convert Denver into a United Nations city”.  The conspiracy theorist Maes continued to unravel the twisted threat of anti-Americanism that bicycling represents:  “This is all very well-disguised, but it will be exposed.” [...]  http://www.triplepundit.com/2010/08/republican-tea-party-candidate-suggests-biking-is-gateway-drug-to-communism/

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