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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."

"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.

Maes said in a later interview that he once thought the mayor's efforts to promote cycling and other environmental initiatives were harmless and well-meaning. Now he realizes "that's exactly the attitude they want you to have."

"This is bigger than it looks like on the surface, and it could threaten our personal freedoms," Maes said.

He added: "These aren't just warm, fuzzy ideas from the mayor. These are very specific strategies that are dictated to us by this United Nations program that mayors have signed on to."

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Maes said ICLEI is affiliated with the United Nations and is "signing up mayors across the country, and these mayors are signing on to this U.N. agreement to have their cities abide by this dream philosophy."

The program includes encouraging employers to install showers so more people will ride bikes to work and also creating parking spaces for fuel-efficient vehicles, he said.

Polls show that Maes, a Tea Party favorite, has pulled ahead of former Congressman Scott McInnis, the early frontrunner in the Aug. 10 primary for the Republican gubernatorial nomination. Maes acknowledged that some might find his theories "kooky," but he said there are valid reasons to be worried.

"At first, I thought, 'Gosh, public transportation, what's wrong with that, and what's wrong with people parking their cars and riding their bikes? And what's wrong with incentives for green cars?' But if you do your homework and research, you realize ICLEI is part of a greater strategy to rein in American cities under a United Nations treaty," Maes said.
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cawacko said:
and how is that?
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The bikes are available to people until the snow flies! Then when it melts, the bikes come out to play, again, and Denver has less snow than Anchorage. There are people up here who ride their bikes all winter long, too! Our bikes trails are infamous!
 
Rana said:
The bikes are available to people until the snow flies! Then when it melts, the bikes come out to play, again, and Denver has less snow than Anchorage. There are people up here who ride their bikes all winter long, too! Our bikes trails are infamous!
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I'm talking about people biking to and from work. And public policy that is designed around allowing less parking and essentially forcing people to bike or take public transportation. I find it difficult to believe a bunch of people in suits are going to be bike riding in the snow to work on a daily basis.
 
cawacko said:
I'm talking about people biking to and from work. And public policy that is designed around allowing less parking and essentially forcing people to bike or take public transportation. I find it difficult to believe a bunch of people in suits are going to be bike riding in the snow to work on a daily basis.
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They do ride bikes to work and they encourage people to ride bikes to work. We had a program where you could get a bike, but then people weren't returning them! People ride their bikes to work in the Winter, it is crazy, but they do it!
 
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