{"id":129407876,"date":"2009-02-06T18:37:56","date_gmt":"2009-02-06T18:37:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/?p=129407876"},"modified":"2009-02-06T18:37:56","modified_gmt":"2009-02-06T18:37:56","slug":"demint-attacks-bicycle-infrastructure-funding","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/?p=129407876","title":{"rendered":"DeMint Attacks Bicycle Infrastructure Funding"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>[From the League of American Bicyclists]<\/em><br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/02\/061masthead.jpg\" alt=\"TAKE ACTION!\" width=\"600\" height=\"100\" style=\"border: 0px;\" \/><\/p>\n<table border=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\" cellspacing=\"0\" width=\"560\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td class=\"bodytext\" align=\"left\">\n<table border=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\" cellspacing=\"0\" width=\"100%\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td><b>Stimulus Amendment To Prohibit Bike Funding<\/b><\/td>\n<td rowspan=\"2\" valign=\"top\"><a rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/capwiz.com\/lab\/utr\/1\/JVCRJTPZIN\/CVNBJTPZNB\/2888700411\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"action_link\" style=\"text-align: right;\"><a rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/capwiz.com\/lab\/utr\/1\/JVCRJTPZIN\/CVNBJTPZNB\/2888700411\">Take&nbsp;Action!<\/a><\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Call Your Senator Immediately<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td colspan=\"2\" style=\"height: 10px;\">&nbsp;<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td colspan=\"2\">\n<div><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">Senator DeMint (R-SC) has offered an amendment to SPECIFICALLY prohibit funding for bicycles, walking and <span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">offroad vehicles. <\/span><\/span><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">The amendment ONLY goes after bicycle, walking, and offroad vehicle funding. <br style=\"\" \/><br style=\"\" \/><br \/>\nThe <a rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/capwiz.com\/lab\/utr\/1\/JVCRJTPZIN\/GLWEJTPZNC\/2888700411\"><span class=\"yshortcuts\" id=\"lw_1233961431_1\">Amendment<\/span><\/a> has been offered but not introduced. &nbsp;We do not have a schedule for when this will be introduced&nbsp;and voted on, but we need to alert all Senators to urge them to vote against such amendments and ensure that funding for bicycle infrastructure remain eligible under the transportation funds provided in the stimulus package.<\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"MsoNormal\">&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div class=\"MsoNormal\">&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div class=\"MsoNormal\"><span style=\"color: rgb(51, 51, 51);\"><\/span><\/div>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"> &nbsp;<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p>\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/02\/061footer.jpg\" alt=\"footer\" width=\"600\" height=\"35\" style=\"border: 0px;\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[From the League of American Bicyclists] Stimulus Amendment To Prohibit Bike Funding Take&nbsp;Action! Call Your Senator Immediately &nbsp; Senator DeMint (R-SC) has offered an amendment to SPECIFICALLY prohibit funding for bicycles, walking and offroad vehicles. The amendment ONLY goes after bicycle, walking, and offroad vehicle funding. The Amendment has been offered but not introduced. &nbsp;We &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/?p=129407876\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;DeMint Attacks Bicycle Infrastructure Funding&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"1","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-129407876","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biking-elsewhere"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/129407876","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=129407876"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/129407876\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=129407876"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=129407876"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=129407876"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}