“A Global Warming Hero”
That’s how Laurie David, the wife of comedian Larry David, describes Seattle Mayor Greg Nickels in this gushy post on HuffingtonPost today. She’s praising Nickels for his push to get U.S. mayors to adopt the Kyoto Protocol, even though the Bush administration has rejected the agreement.
Nickels has received lots of coverage for his leadership, including a glam photo spread in the current green issue of Vanity Fair. “It’s a strange role for someone whose job it is to fix potholes,” Nickels says, “But American cities care about this issue even if the federal government doesn’t. I wanted to send a message to the rest of the world to stick with it, because America will catch up.”
Only in Seattle would self-loathing liberals bash a Mayor who does stuff like this. I am moving to a more progressive city like Tacoma!