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TRANSITCABAL CONTEST: Document Cox!

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"Truth passes through three phases: 1) It is ridiculed. 2) It is violently opposed. 3) It is accepted as self-evident." Albert Schopenhouer. In the United States, rail is currently passing through Phase Two.


From the Cabalmaster:

WIN AN ANNUAL TRANSIT PASS
FOR THE URBAN TRANSIT SYSTEM OF YOUR CHOICE!

From the Cabalmaster:

The Secret Worldwide Transit Cabal is pleased to announce our first contest!

The prize: an annual transit pass, or its equivalent (e.g. twelve monthly passes), to any urban transit system in the WORLD! (Or, for commuter rail, up to two monthly passes for, say, the Metro-North Commuter Railroad or the Long Island Rail Road; we’ll consider similar operations on an ad-hoc basis.)

The challenge: Provide bona fide evidence that documents the source(s) of Wendell Cox’ funding!

Besides his own firm, "Wendell Cox Consultancy" and his personal websites, www.publicpurpose.com and www.demographia.com, Wendell is or has been listed in the recent past as "Associate" or "Senior Fellow" at the Heritage Foundation, the Texas Public Policy Institute, the Independence Institute, Heartland Institute, and many others.

These titles probably indicate that he’s been hired to write an anti-New Urbanism or anti-transit paper or two, and little else.

Many of Wendell’s critics and opponents believes that he receives much loot from pro-highway, anti-urban, anti-smart-growth, right-wing and Libertarian interests.

(We’re shocked – utterly SCANDALIZED – we thought he did it just for fun!!!)

Wendell himself has refused to disclose who his clients are, other than to cop a plea of “customary professional practice.”

Just to show that we’re serious: Dana Gabbard and Kymberleigh Richards of Southern California Transit Advocates have researched the funding received by the Bus Riders Union in Los Angeles (www.transit-insider.org/master.html?http://www.transit-insider.org/brufunds.htm). Imagine such a page documenting Wendell’s funding!!!

As for "funding" of the Secret Worldwide Transit Cabal, we'll accept some if you have any to offer!

What? You think we get PAID to do this? Well, no. We don't have goofy billionaires backup us, say, unlike the CATO Institute who has the goofy owners of secretive Koch Industries. We wish!


posted by The Cabalmaster, Master of All Transit-dom 5/07/2003 03:59:00 PM