By Bob Gibson
Daily Progress political blogger
The best comment on a blog entry in the past 30 days or so goes to the future mayor of Charlottesville, City Councilor Dave Norris.
Norris, a blogger like current Mayor David Brown, left one of 25 comments on recent blog items.
Showing a wicked sense of humor, Norris chose to comment on Del. Jim Scott’s House Bill 39, which would prohibit text messaging while driving and may be the best little safety bill in the upcoming General Assembly session. Scott’s bill, as summarized on Richmond Sunlight, http://www.richmondsunlight.com/bill/2008/hb39/ would prohibit “operation of a motor vehicle, bicycle, electric personal assistive mobility device, electric power-assisted bicycle, or moped on the highways in the Commonwealth while using any wireless telecommunications device for the purpose of sending, receiving, or reading any text message.”
Norris commented: “I don’t mind people who send text messages while driving, as long as they don’t write them in Spanish. Some far-sighted legislator needs to introduce a bill establishing English as the official language of text-messaging-while-driving in Virginia.“
A tip of the hat to the next mayor, whose blog, CvilleDave, can be found at http://cvilledave.blogspot.com/ and makes Charlottesville possibly the only city in Virginia with two blogging mayors in a row. Brown’s blog, One City Blog, is found at http://onecityblog.blogspot.com/.
