{"id":673,"date":"2013-03-12T14:47:42","date_gmt":"2013-03-12T14:47:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/iraia.net\/blog\/?p=673"},"modified":"2013-03-12T15:43:17","modified_gmt":"2013-03-12T15:43:17","slug":"biking-for-teddy-c","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/iraia.net\/blog\/2013\/03\/12\/biking-for-teddy-c\/","title":{"rendered":"Biking for Teddy C."},"content":{"rendered":"
\"Ex-girlfriend\"<\/a>
Ex-girlfriend and one of her bright ideas<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

I\u2019m not sure if my one and only senatorial candidate, Teddy Casi\u00f1o, has a bike or if he even knows how to ride one. I don\u2019t know if his campaign machinery has any biking event listed. But, whatever the case, it\u2019s a nice idea for bikers who support Teddy\u2019s bid for the Senate to organize a mass bike ride on or around Earth Day or any other memorable date before the May 13 elections.<\/p>\n

The idea actually came from my ex-girlfriend, who is immensely busy these days with her own hectic race to complete her university studies and get the degree she\u2019d been aiming for since time immemorial. So she asked me to put her suggestion into blog form.<\/p>\n

Like me, Ex-GF was at first doubtful of Teddy\u2019s chances at winning a Senate seat although we had been supportive of his party-list\u2019s program from Day 1. Truth to tell, we cringed at his first tentative steps to craft his messages for a wider audience, such as his rather tacky \u201cDon\u2019t touch my talong<\/em>\u201d slogan against GMOs.<\/p>\n

But as he plodded along, or rather jogged and chatted and expounded his way into public consciousness, slowly gathering momentum, he started to shine, and XGF\u2019s mental light bulbs started to emit brilliant flashes.<\/p>\n

\u201cJogging is ok, but too slow if he wants to cover more ground,\u201d she noted. \u201cHe should bike all around the city, and call on all bikers\u2014including you,\u201d emphatically pointing a finger at me, \u201cto join him and help distribute his leaflets.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cHmm,\u201d I said, contemplating her finger. \u201cThere\u2019s an Earth Day bike ride on April 21,\u201d\u00a0I noted, checking a website calendar for the Firefly Brigade\u2019s \u201ccritical mass rides\u201d<\/a> for this year. On the other hand\u2014I corrected myself\u2014it would probably be a bad idea to politicize an event that has already established itself as non-political.<\/p>\n

So taking off from XGF\u2019s idea, the next best thing is maybe for Teddy\u2019s bikers to organize their own mass rides to raise environmental issues, bring their ecological philosophy and program to the masses in a creative way, and involve a wide range of activist and advocate groups\u2014even plain biking enthusiasts and pedicab drivers. They can trace a well-chosen route that\u2019s long enough to cover much ground, but not too long as to be exhausting and self-limiting in terms of participants.<\/p>\n

Consider these possible dates:<\/p>\n