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Wheat Ridge, CO, February 6, 2008 - Pioneer Limousine & Transportation Solutions LLC, a local Wheat Ridge business specializing in corporate transportation had the honor to be invited as the primary transportation coordinator for a private function for a fund raising event for Bob Schaffer for Senate with President George W. Bush in attendance.

The event took place at a private residence in the Cherry Creek neighborhood on January 31st 2008. President Bush’s visit to Colorado helped raise funds for Bob Schaffer for Senate. Guests in attendance had the opportunity to hear President Bush speak and have their photos taken with him.

As a long time client of Pioneer Limousine, Mr. Mike Geissler, the owner of Pioneer Limousine and Transportation Solutions LLC, was asked to be in attendance at the event and to personally coordinate the transportation for the arriving guests to the residence. The neighborhood was closed to parking and the Secret Service imposed specific security measures before and during the Presidential visit. The traffic in and out of the neighborhood was controlled and limited to authorized vehicles only. The Cherry Hills Country Club provided the parking for the guests while a shuttle system took the guests to and from the event.

Pioneer Limousine & Transportation Solutions, LLC has the resources and experience to provide this type of service. Its niche market is transportation for corporate events and its executives. Pioneer Limousine performs group moves on a regular basis and specializes in events where personal service is crucial. They also provide service as an affiliate of Boston Coach (International Company owned by Fidelity Investments) in the Denver market. Pioneer Limousine will also be providing service for participants of the Democratic National Convention in August 2008.

New York City's new $250 tax on out-of-town limousines has prompted more anti-New York grumbling from some politicians running for governor in New Jersey.

The complaining among gubernatorial hopefuls started about a month ago over New York's new, higher income-tax rate on some out-of-state commuters. One Republican candidate, Charles L. Hardwick, the State Assembly Speaker, drew the most attention by urging state residents facing the higher tax bracket to mail tea bags to Gov. Mario M. Cuomo in protest.

Although the limousine tax pales as a voter pocketbook issue alongside the commuter tax, two candidates, sensing a chance to woo voters by firing across the Hudson, have rushed to the side of the limousine owners, anti-New York verbiage at the ready. 'Irrationally High Fee'

Assemblyman Alan J. Karcher, seeking the Democratic nomination for governor, said he viewed the tax as an excuse for the city's Taxi and Limousine Commission to hire 400 inspectors on the eve of a re-election bid by Mayor Edward I. Koch.

''It's an irrationally high fee,'' he said. ''You get suspicious that this is patronage rolling along at the expense of New Jersey limousine drivers. Cooler heads should prevail in New York City. Mayor Koch and Governor Cuomo should be more rational about tweaking New Jersey's nose. In a border war, New York can only lose.''

Representative James A. Courter, a Republican candidate for governor, went before a limousine owners' meeting here today and talked about a new era of freer trade internationally, especially in Europe and between the United States and Canada.

''Clearly,'' he said, ''New York City is swimming in the wrong direction. New York is building trade barriers. Wake up, Mayor Koch!'' Later, in a campaign statement by his office, Mr. Courter proposed an annual ''summit meeting'' of the governors, top elected officials and business and civic leaders of New York, New Jersey and Connecticut to work for regional solidarity and progress. Federal Help Sought

Mr. Courter also told the owners he would ask the Interstate Commerce Commission to block New York's new tax and other licensing charges, including a $50 fee for each of their drivers and a $100 charge for each limousine company headquarters.

Jack Lusk, chairman of the city's Taxi and Limousine Commission, has said the fees and regulations calling for three inspections of out-of-town limousines a year are safety measures.

The new limousine tax also applies to for-hire vehicles based on Long Island and in Connecticut, Westchester and upstate New York counties. Previously they and the New Jersey-based vehicles were eligible for exemptions from the licensing fees.

On Friday lawyers representing Long Island and Westchester owners won a court order blocking enforcement of the new regulations on all owners who had received the exemptions. The curb lasts until a new court hearing is held on April 7.

But Fidel DelValle, the commission's attorney, said few of the owners of some 3,000 limousines in New Jersey had applied for the exemption and were thus still subject to the new law and its $500 fine for non-registration.

In the latest skirmish in the trans-Hudson wars, officials in New Jersey said yesterday that they would begin charging New York City limousines and taxis $200 a year per vehicle for the right to bring passengers from New Jersey to New York.

Members of the Bergen County legislature, which enacted the law Wednesday evening, described it as a tit-for-tat action intended to encourage New York's Taxi and Limousine Commission to rescind regulations for out-of-town hired cars that went into effect last week.

"We don't want to do this," said Richard A. Mola, vice chairman of the county's Board of Freeholders, its governing body. "All we want to do is to get New York to take back their law, which is plain wrong."

Accusing New York authorities of trying to gouge New Jerseyans, Mr. Mola said that he thought New Jersey's limousine companies had suffered enough in the recession and that the new expenses were ill timed.

Just as, over the years, New Yorkers and New Jerseyans have bickered over taxes, the birthplace of baseball and the Statue of Liberty, limousine owners and drivers in the two states spoke derisively of one another yesterday.

"Manhattan is just another town," said Tim Rose, vice president of Garden State Limousine of North Arlington, N.J., describing his objection to the New York regulations. "They want to charge us for going from town to town."

Deleroy Mayles, a New York driver, countered: "I only go to New Jersey when I absolutely have to. There's nothing of interest there." The new regulations principally affect limousine companies with corporate clients.

If the Taxi and Limousine Commission does not alter New York's regulations in 30 days, Mr. Mola of Bergen County warned, the police will begin enforcing the law in New Jersey. Any New York limousine found picking up a passenger in New Jersey would be given a $500 ticket for the first and second offense, and could be confiscated after a third offense. Those penalties are similar to New York's strictest penalties for operating a vehicle without a proper license.

Yet the Taxi and Limousine Commission seems unlikely to budge. Mr. Del Valle noted that the regulations were written into state law, which was passed last November and that took effect last week, and would not easily be changed. He defended the regulations as sensible.

' "We regulate the industry for a reason," Mr. Del Valle said. "When you get into a car, you want to know that it's not Jack the Ripper behind the wheel." He estimated the trans-Hudson limousine and taxi traffic at fewer than 2,000 cars

The new laws in both states require a $200 licensing fee for each limousine and a $500 fee for the limousine company, both annual fees. Mr. Del Valle said that New Jersey limousines would be exempt from New York motor vehicles tax, which costs local taxis $1,000 and limousines $400.

New York City's Taxi and Limousine Commission thinks strangers might want to start sharing taxis.

The TLC says that could make it easier to find a cab at peak times. It says passengers could pay less, and drivers earn more.

One proposal would equip up to 1,000 yellow cabs with multiple-fare meters.

Another would designate several taxi stands for group-ride pickups during the morning rush period. Those cabs would charge passengers a flat fare to be dropped off anywhere along that route.

The TLC says the flat-fare plan could begin by the fall. Designated sharecabs would take longer to put into effect.