Who would have thought? Clearly not Sidney Davis.

Yesterday the Post profiled Davis, a Metrobus driver with a tendency to offer opinions and advice on the coming Dictrict elections, in a fluff piece meant more to highlight a cute quirk than to offer news or analysis on the candidates or the issues. Metro officials clearly didn’t see things that way, and today they acted by putting Davis on administrative leave and distributing a memo reminding drivers not to engage in political discussions with riders.

We see both sides of this one. While we don’t want our Metrobus drivers skirting their duties to tell us how great Vincent Orange is, it’s not like he was denying passage to supporters of Adrian Fenty and Linda Cropp. Had Davis made less of his support for Orange and made his lectures more like public service announcements on the importance of voting, he may have flown under the radar. But it’s stuff like this that probably roiled some of Metro’s top brass:

“If you’re undecided, you might want to try some vitamin C,” he said as he handed over a card promoting Orange.

A little too obvious, Sidney.