Chris Daly's being remarkably unsmug about the way the whole SF Grand Prix bike thing went down, isn't he? You may remember a few months ago, Daly staged a mock bike race to protest the fact that the mayor wanted to give a tax break to a bike race sponsored by Republicans when he wouldn't give money to villages affected by the tsunami. This was because the city was going to write off the amount of money it would cost to provide police services for the race in the future. You may recall that Daly's proposal was greeted with chortles and harumphs all around (some even in this very blog), and went down in defeat (as memorialized in Daly's angry blog entry! So best.).

Well, well, well -- how things change in seven months! It turns out the Grand Prix actually cheating the system -- they stiffed San Francisco and somehow "forgot" to pay for almost $90,000 of police services they incurred in 2004. (They also haven't paid another $82,000 in fees to DPT and DPW). The City by law is not permitted to enter into a contract with someone who owes it money. No one has an explanation for this, and Peskin had a conniption ("I stuck my neck way out for you. You played me for a fool. I resent it deeply." That's the way he rolls, baby!)

We imagine Daly smiled beatifically at the Chron reporters when he told them, "I have had many reservations about the San Francisco Grand Prix, even as an avid cyclist, as a commuting cyclist." (bonus link: read about how Daly got doored).

Picture from the Daly Blog

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