It is a sweet ride.
“I know I’ve been encouraging people to ride bikes more, but I didn’t mean u could ‘borrow’ my wife’s bike without asking,” tweeted Mayor McGinn earlier this evening, shamefacedly (I would think) admitting later that the bike was stolen “[a]fter I rode it to work today. Peg is pissed.”
Unfortunately for the Mayor, the theft comes on the heels of his alienating some 82 percent of the Seattle police force, when he seemed to suggest in his State of the City address that only officers who live in Seattle really share the values of city residents: “It’s hard to have a good local police force if the police aren’t local.”
“Has he invited the police union to sit down for talks? Frankly, I was hoping for more specifics,” City Council member Tim Burgess told the Seattle Times. It seems fate has just handed the Mayor a chance to work more closely with the police department.
