One of the joys of the thread that was closed was that it gave the Weak Link a chance to refer to Seattle's mayor as a nut case (I can't recall the exact phrase).

Our mayor -- Mike McGinn, former head of the Sierra Club, and a long-time bike commuter -- is known locally as "Mayor McSchwinn."

As a service to The Weak Leak, I thought I would provide a link to an article in the local business paper in which Mayor McSchwinn has been lambasted by the most powerful landowner/developer in the area, Kemper Freeman, who owns a billion dollars or so of real estate and malls in the East Side. McSchwinn is a huge advocate of bikes and mass transit; Kemper Freeman is a huge advocate of, well, malls and cars (he's financing a number of legal actions intended to stop the spread of light rail into "his" suburb.)

Here's the interview:

http://www.bizjournals.com/seattle/b...le_retail.html

(Hey Weak Link -- thought you would enjoy this)