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This week, former Congressman Tom Tancredo (R-Colo.) "made good on his
threat"<http://www.coloradostatesman.com/content/992026-tancredo-makes-good-threat-%3F-he%3Fs-running-governor>
to
jump into the race for the Colorado statehouse after a prolonged temper
tantrum about how unsatisfied he is with the GOP's two candidates for the
nomination, Scott McInnis and Dan Maes. Tancredo -- who will run under the
auspices of the American Constitution Party -- immediately threw the GOP's
designs on the governor's race into stunning disarray: polls indicate that
Tancredo would divide the state's conservatives nearly in
half<http://www.kdvr.com/news/politics/kdvr-august-governors-race-rasmussen-poll,0,2802563.story>,
paving the way for a John Hickenlooper victory.

Dan Maes, however, isn't going down without a fight, and has apparently
decided to go all out in competition for Tancredo's natural constituency --
ridiculous xenophobes. So, what crazy paranoia over the creeping menace of
foreigners is Maes fearmongering about? Let's ask the *Denver
Post*<http://www.denverpost.com/election2010/ci_15673894>
:

Republican gubernatorial candidate Dan Maes is warning voters that Denver
Mayor John Hickenlooper's policies, particularly his efforts to boost bike
riding, are "converting Denver into a United Nations community."

I'm sorry, what?

"This is all very well-disguised, but it will be exposed," Maes told about
50 supporters who showed up at a campaign rally last week in Centennial.

Okay, here's the mystery that Maes alone has penetrated. Denver is a member
in something called the International Council for Local Environmental
Initiatives. They've been a member since 1992. It is an "international
association that promotes sustainable development." One of the things that
contributes to sustainability and an overall pleasant quality of life is a
bike-sharing program called
"B-Cycle"<http://www.ubergizmo.com/15/archives/2010/05/b-cycle_bike_sharing_system.html>
which
has taken donations and grant monies to make 400 bicycles available for the
residents of Denver to tool around on when the spirit moves them.
Hickenlooper has praised the program so Maes is trying to make the case that
it's a UN plot to deprive people of "freedom."

Also, as Charlie Eisenhood points out over at
ThinkProgress<http://thinkprogress.org/2010/08/04/maes-bikes-hickenlooper/>,
maybe this is the Obamacare of bicycles, or something?

Just last week, Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood -- a former Republican
member of Congress -- visited Denver, strapped on a helmet to take a bike
ride through town, and called the bicycle-sharing program "a model for
America."

So, in other words, Dan Maes is *deeply, unquenchably crazy*. But will he be
able to out cray-cray Tancredo? Westword's Michael Roberts
offers<http://blogs.westword.com/latestword/2010/08/dan_maes_five_more_terrifying_ways_denver_is_turning_into_the_united_nations.php>
Maes
some suggestions on where to go from here, including doing something about
Denver-area "Best Buy outlets still selling TV remotes with SAP buttons,
nefariously promoting languages other than 'Merican."

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