{"id":2179,"date":"2007-04-18T14:07:20","date_gmt":"2007-04-18T18:07:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wordpress\/2007\/04\/credit_to_corke\/"},"modified":"2007-04-18T14:07:20","modified_gmt":"2007-04-18T18:07:20","slug":"credit_to_corke","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/2007\/04\/credit_to_corke\/","title":{"rendered":"Credit To Corker"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I don&#8217;t expect this to become a regular feature, but I have a positive post about <a href=\"http:\/\/corker.senate.gov\/\">Senator Corker<\/a>.  Via the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bikeleague.org\/programs\/bikeadvocacy\/\">League of American Bicyclists<\/a>, I sent e-mails to my U.S. Senators and Representative voicing support for the Bicycle Commuters Benefits Act of 2007 (HR 1498, SB. 858).  [I&#8217;m not a commuter, but I generally support all legislation favorable to cyclists.]<br \/>\nI got an e-mail back from Corker (the only one thus far) which reads, in part:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>It is important that we continue to reduce energy consumption when possible, and now is a perfect time for us as a country to really get serious about energy alternatives and conservation.  As Mayor of Chattanooga I promoted cycling and created bicycle lanes in our urban areas and wrote a bicycle master plan. I am an avid cyclist myself. I appreciate your interest in a letter being circulated by Senators requesting support for the Bicycle Commuters Benefits Act of 2007. I have received this letter and as I look into signing it I will certainly consider your thoughts about S. 858 and incentives for bicycle commuters in general.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>That sounds like support.  Let&#8217;s hope so.  It would be nice to have your senator vote your way every once in a while.<br \/>\nOn related note, earlier I posted on the &#8220;Jeff Roth Bicycle and Pedalcyclists Protection Act of 2007.&#8221;  It appears that the House and Senate bills have <a href=\"http:\/\/www.legislature.state.tn.us\/bills\/currentga\/asp\/WebBillInfo\/BillCompanionInfo.aspx?billnumber=SB1699\">been consolidated<\/a> and the measure is awaiting passage in the House.<br \/>\nUPDATE:  Congressman Duncan mailed a letter suggesting that he also supports the Bicycle Commuters Benefits Act of 2007.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<a href=\"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/2007\/04\/credit_to_corke\/\" rel=\"bookmark\" title=\"Permalink to Credit To Corker\"><p>I don&#8217;t expect this to become a regular feature, but I have a positive post about Senator Corker. Via the League of American Bicyclists, I sent e-mails to my U.S. Senators and Representative voicing support for the Bicycle Commuters Benefits Act of 2007 (HR 1498, SB. 858). [I&#8217;m not a commuter, but I generally support [&hellip;]<\/p>\n<\/a>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-2179","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-uncategorized","7":"h-entry","8":"hentry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2179","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2179"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2179\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2179"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2179"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2179"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}