Friday, July 07, 2006

Michael Cavlan and the Personal Rapid Transit Hoax

Michael Cavlan is the Green Party-endorsed candidate for Senator in Minnesota.

Michael Cavlan is also a supporter of PRT.. well, sort of...

I got a chance to interview Michael Cavlan at the Drinking Liberally function at the 331 Club yesterday.

Here is the interview:



The last time I saw Michael Cavlan was at a CPRT meeting at the Saint Louis Park City Hall. Cavlan was operating a camera while Dean Zimmermann prepared for his big pitch for Taxi 2000 at City Hall, March 24, 2004. On a table in the room I saw a stack of literature from Mark Olson. This is Olson's leaflet:

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Critics of Cavlan have called him a "conspiracy theorist". Michael Cavlan had this to say :

There will also be those who will try to label this campaign as conspiracy 
theorists because we have called for an independent investigation into 
the issues of election fraud, the death of Paul Wellstone and the 9/11 
Commission Investigation Report. Again, we intend to flip that. First, 
we are saying simply that we have questions. We are not accusing 
anybody or group of these things. We simply have the courage to ask the 
uncomfortable questions. Our constituents, having these same questions, 
are depending upon us to have this courage and look to us to shoulder 
that responsibility. The corporate powers in charge of our government 
will attempt to smear us. Why should we give them any credibility at 
all? They have already proven their untrustworthiness.


I asked him if he is wiling to help me expose the PRT hoax that Dean Zimmermann, Michele Bachmann, Ray Vandeveer and Mark Olson have used as a stalking horse to stop LRT and commuter rail in Minnesota with the assistance of a highway industry. Cavlan asked me for proof. Here it is.... E-mails from the affidavits of the Taxi 2000 lawsuit against Ed Anderson between Anderson and a Charles Michael at the highway engineering firm Short Eliot Hendrickson that refer to financial assistance and some legislative hijinks. Taxi 2000 also shares a lobbyist with SEH. SEH was the engineering firm for the 35W Access Project a highway expansion project for which Zimmermann claimed neutrality.... an odd position for a "Green".

Cavlan and other Greens could help progressive candidates like Jim Huhtala, Patty Wetterling and David Francis by helping me expose Mark Olson, Bachmann, Vandeveer and Dean Zimmermann's PRT hoax... will they?

2 comments:

A Transportation Enthusiast said...

And here we have the evidence to blacklist yet another gadgetbahner! Avidor asked Calvan straight up: "Are you or have you ever been a gadgetbahner?" and Calvin did not deny it!

How could he deny it? He has associated himself with other gadgetbahn sympathizers like Olson and Zimmerman. It is hoped that Calvan will now name names and reveal others who have the audacity to disagree.

Yes, Calvan now wears the scarlet "G". Tattoo it to his forehead for all the world to see, and watch his political career dwindle under a barrage of merciless attacks.

Mr_Grant said...

Kenwood, you have a voice made for silent movies! And ya know what your interview style reminds me of? A Resmuglican push-poll!-- 'Would you be more or less inclined to support PRT if you knew that PRT shot a man in Reno just to watch him die?'

Keep up the great work, it's really enjoyable!