August 04, 2010 08:58 PM UTC

Dan Maes and the U.N. Plot to Bicycilize the World!

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• by: Colorado Pols

Oh, Dan Maes! We don’t know where you came from, and we’re still amazed at how you got here, but we can’t deny that you are one amusing fellow. Even if you don’t mean to be. From TPM, via that Denver newspaper:

Colorado Republican gubernatorial candidate Dan Maes knows you might think  bicycles and bicycle riding are harmless, but beware: “That’s exactly the attitude they want you to have.”

The Denver Post reports that Maes, a Tea Party friendly candidate facing former Rep. Scott McInnis in the August 10 Republican primary, has come out against a public bicycle program run by the city of Denver. Denver’s mayor, John Hickenlooper, is the presumptive Democratic nominee, and a cycling supporter.

“This is all very well-disguised, but it will be exposed,” Maes said at a small campaign rally last week, according to the Post. “These aren’t just warm, fuzzy ideas from the mayor. These are very specific strategies that are dictated to us by this United Nations program that mayors have signed on to.”

We can’t even attempt to dissect this one, folks. Encouraging people to ride their bicycles is a sinister U.N. plot to…make businesses install showers…and…really, we need a pie chart or graph or something to follow along.