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Vice President Mike Pence in an 8-vehicle motorcade on Mackinac Island, which has banned motorized vehicles for more than a century.
Link to tweet
Srkdqltr
(6,125 posts)He would have looked cool coming to the hotel in a carriage. Would have made a nice picture. These folks are so tone deaf.
flotsam
(3,268 posts)You know-with mobility and bulletproof glass. Because consider what a great target a horse drawn carriage is for a sniper and how long your principle would be exposed in the kill zone. Photo ops-fuckem' not my concern.
Hermit-The-Prog
(33,021 posts)Pampered Pence should have stayed away.
malaise
(267,787 posts)Hope Dems have the tape for ads
Hermit-The-Prog
(33,021 posts)Back in the spring, he was all excited to be going "to that island where they don't allow any fucking cars at all!" (He loves his horses and usually hauls them to the Ozarks once a year to ride. Don't know why he goes so far).
I will rub that in until he screeches.
malaise
(267,787 posts)Kaleva
(36,145 posts)"The medical center does have its own ambulance its one of the few motorized vehicles allowed on the island, where the primary transportation is via horse, bicycle, or in winter, snowmobile. Because many of the year-round residents live up a hill in the heart of the island, farther away from downtown, the ambulance is outfitted with four-wheel drive and tire chains."
https://www.northernexpress.com/news/feature/mackinac-islands-new-doctor-on-duty/
http://www.cityofmi.org/fire-department-22/
"Summer patrol is on foot and bicycle, with a motorized police vehicle available for emergencies."
http://www.cityofmi.org/police-department-12/
Work vehicles are allowed on the island under certain conditions from Oct. to May.
"Yet motor vehicles, which have to be approved, permitted and accompanied by a police escort, are allowed on the island only between October and May, and are granted only to the companies doing the work. "
https://www.wsj.com/articles/building-on-mackinac-island-where-horses-rule-the-roads-11568300450
Hermit-The-Prog
(33,021 posts)Hekate
(90,189 posts)RainCaster
(10,673 posts)This was all about his ego. He needed to be seen as better than anyone, and nothing else
flotsam
(3,268 posts)Also Utility vehicles and public safety vehicles are allowed.
"Sec. 66-64. - Exemptions.
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The following motor vehicles are exempted from restricted use and only in accordance with enumerated uses:
(1)Public safety vehicles shall have no restrictions in usage so long as such vehicle is being used in the normal course of public safety service.(2)Public service and utility vehicles when used to provide, maintain and repair basic public utilities such as electrical, water, sewer and telephone, as well as roadway maintenance and repair."
https://library.municode.com/mi/mackinac_island/codes/code_of_ordinances?nodeId=PTIICOOR_CH66TR_ARTIIMOVE_DIV3PE
"MACKINAC ISLAND The U.S. Secret Service had an automobile smuggled onto Mackinac Island when President Gerald Ford visited in 1975 but the car was kept hidden and was never used, says a former longtime Mackinac Island official.
Dennis Cawthorne, a Lansing lobbyist and Mackinac Island resident who served for more than 20 years as chairman of the Mackinac Island State Park Commission, said Ford and his wife, first lady Betty Ford, rode a horse-drawn carriage during their Mackinac visit.
What wasn't widely known at the time, Cawthorne said, was that the Secret Service insisted that a vehicle be quietly brought to the island, so it would be available in case of an emergency."
https://www.freep.com/story/news/politics/elections/2019/09/20/mike-pence-mackinac-island-motorized-vehicle/2386562001/
dickthegrouch
(3,151 posts)If they damaged a single blade of grass, Pence should be brought before the court as a common vandal.
I'm sure we could find a few squashed bugs by those humongous tires and get him charged with something like wilful protected species harm.
Get creative Mackinac residents!