Because there are some symptoms I want to look up.
By this time it's pretty much established that personal rapid transit is neither Democratic or Republican, right? Considering -- among others -- the greens backing the Ithaca program, the European Commission, and now the state of Punjab, it would be insane for anyone to continue to insist that PRT is only the domain of ultra-right wing Resmuglicans -- wouldn't it?
Yet that is what Ken Avidor does once again over at the PRT Moondoggie blog.
We've long since established that during 2003-04 (the legislative session when Michele Bachmann sponsored the PRT-related bill that Avidor keeps yammering on about) Democratic sponsors of PRT legislation outnumbered GOP sponsors 13 to 5.
But Ken doesn't like talking about that session anymore. Today he switches to the 2006 Mark "Slappy" Olson bill which went down 26 to 107; it's much friendlier to Avidor's propaganda needs, because the Yea vote was 24 GOP and 2 Democratic.
It's as if, in his mind, the facts from 2003-04 don't exist. What do you call such obsessive pigheadedness?
And the three members from 2006 vote he chooses to mention by name? All GOP. All of whom are in some way extremist or notorious.* This allows Ken to claim, "Minnesota's Worst Politicians Supported Personal Rapid Transit."
Totally ignoring that over the years it has been supported by a lot of good ones as well. Klassy as always, Ken!
* And list those items - police-blotter style - he does, not that they have anything to do with transportation. It's just more of Avidor's guilt by association
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