Comments on: Maps and calendars, useful items http://blog.cascade.org/2010/08/brodeur-invitation/ Creating a better community through bicycling, throughout Seattle, King County and Washington state. Thu, 23 May 2013 03:08:41 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 By: eightzero http://blog.cascade.org/2010/08/brodeur-invitation/comment-page-1/#comment-523 eightzero Fri, 20 Aug 2010 18:36:43 +0000 http://blog.cascade.org/?p=2222#comment-523 FWIW, I just cancelled my Times subscription, and told the editors (and the dude taking the phone order) that the reason was Nichole Brodeur: "Sorry, but Nicole Brodeur's columns on the 125th biking issue were the last straw for me. I'll be cancelling my Times subscription. The amount of hate directed at cyclists her columns have generated (go read the comments online) are nauseating. Her reference to "mayor McSchwinn" is disturbing; even more so that the editorial staff permits this kind of juvenile writing to appear on what used to be a mainstream newspaper. My subscription costs will be directed to a donation to Cascade Bicycle Club. Please do not print this letter. My real name is included, but I'd prefer not to have my house firebombed by one of the cyclist haters Nicole has incited." I've contributed my subscription price to CBC online. FWIW, I just cancelled my Times subscription, and told the editors (and the dude taking the phone order) that the reason was Nichole Brodeur:

“Sorry, but Nicole Brodeur’s columns on the 125th biking issue were the last straw for me. I’ll be cancelling my Times subscription. The amount of hate directed at cyclists her columns have generated (go read the comments online) are nauseating. Her reference to “mayor McSchwinn” is disturbing; even more so that the editorial staff permits this kind of juvenile writing to appear on what used to be a mainstream newspaper.

My subscription costs will be directed to a donation to Cascade Bicycle Club.

Please do not print this letter. My real name is included, but I’d prefer not to have my house firebombed by one of the cyclist haters Nicole has incited.”

I’ve contributed my subscription price to CBC online.

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