Everyone knows that the Big Bike lobby runs this town. Just read the comments on any Seattle Times story about bikes. On second thought, don’t do that.
Well, Thursday is your chance to be part of the shadowy, bicycling cabal pulling the puppet strings of Washington State government, and it will only cost you $50! Bonesmen and secret enforcers of UN Agenda 21 get in free, of course.
The fundraiser party is 5:30 – 7:30 p.m. at Optimism Brewing at Broadway and Union.
In all seriousness, the Washington Bike PAC is the political action committee of Washington Bikes, and funds raised Thursday will go directly to efforts to help elect bike-friendly candidates across the state. Little about it is secretive. The organization openly endorses candidates each election, and the PAC helps fund efforts to elect those endorsed candidates.
WA Bikes is the politically-active complement to Cascade Bicycle Club, which has had a long history of direct political action around the Seattle region. After merging with WA Bikes in 2016, the organization turned its gaze statewide. (more…)