Schreck, George
It is not bad. We will see if it is good depending on the response.
-----Original Message-----
From: Long, Steve [mailto:Steve-@clark.wa.gov]
Sent: Thursday, February 02, 2006 2:36 PM
To: jo-@aracnet.com
Cc: ob-@topica.com
Subject: RE: [OBRA Chat] Local radio station slams bikes being on the
road
I'm waiting to see what the station mananger, Jeff McHugh, comes up
with. He's going to try and dig up the segment in which this happened
(and listen to it) so we can discuss it further. He finally returned my
phone call today. So this is good right?
-----Original Message-----
From: Joe Cipale [mailto:jo-@aracnet.com]
Sent: Thursday, February 02, 2006 2:26 PM
To: Long, Steve
Subject: Re: [OBRA Chat] Local radio station slams bikes being on the
road
Steve,
Might I suggest you contact the following as well:
Stephanie Strickland/Reporter KGW (A former next door neighbor and good
friends with Matt Zafino and Dave Zalesky: Both avid cyclists)
Go to the KGW website and you can find her email address. She can put
the story in the hands of its rightful owner. They went after the
dumb-asses who made fun of the mental-handicapped that these ignominous
clusters ridiculed in the name of 'good fun'.
Isnt it funny how people like this are the ones who are looked up to?
Joe
Long, Steve wrote:
Hello gang,
I'm sorry to say that yesterday morning, 105.1 The Buzz, joined in
with a caller that was complaining about bicycles being on any road
without a bike lane. Our good buddy, Nelson, seems to think that
anything without a motor in it has no place on the road and that
cyclists should be forced to take a taxi to their place of riding,
indoors, and take a taxi back home again. And, good old Terry had to
agree with the caller too because, once when he was pulling his boat
out of the water with his Ford Excursion, and there was a bike in the
way and it slowed him down a little.
I called them to discuss it a little this morning and they were so
rude that I couldn't believe it. Josh answered the phone and he was
just about as rude as could be, not even wanting to give me the time
of day.
Yesterday, I called the Program Director of The Buzz, Jeff McHugh and
he never even returned my call.
In this day and age, in this City of Portland, and its Metropolitan
region, that has been labeled the friendliest cycling city in America,
and when on this very day, there's a front page article in the
Oregonian discussing a, nearly 2 million dollar, add campaign targeted
at reducing the Portland Metropolitan Area's traffic congestion, it
seems, whole heartedly, irresponsible and bad citizenship for a public
entity as popular as the Buzz to behave in this manner.
If any of you cares to join me in letting the Buzz and Entercom, for
that matter, know much the Metropolitan region disapproves of this
behavior, here are some helpful names and e-mail addresses:
Program director for the Buzz:
Jeff Mchugh
jmch-@entercom.com
Sales Manager:
Brian Lee
bl-@entercom.com
Above these two on the food chain are:
Jeff Clarke
jcla-@entercom.com
And
Erin Hubert
ehub-@entercom.com
Some of the companies that advertise with the Buzz are Wells Fargo The
Shane Company Safeway Allstate Les Schwab PureRomance.com KATU
Mattress World
Perhaps we could also let their advertisers know how much we
disapprove of this behavior and that we take notice of companies that
support it.
Just a thought gang. I hope some of you join me.
Steve Long
NRR
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