Posted on 10/17/2009 1:56:28 PM PDT by fiscon1
Ultimately, I still believe that we'll never know exactly what happened but here's what I've gathered after having conversations with members of No Games Chicago. In essence, one of the reasons that Chicago lost was that Daley's machine politics didn't transfer over to the IOC all that well. For instance, Daley said several untruths and many of these untruths were eventually discovered by the IOC. So, by the end, his credibility was weakened. Daley claimed that Chicago has a solid infrastructure. He claimed that all the Olympics sites would be compacted next to each other. His biggest whopper was that there really isn't much corruption in the city of Chicago. He claimed the corruption really occurred in the Governor's office (Blagojevich) and with his ouster, most of the corruption was rooted out. As the truth was brought to light, Daley's credibility weakened.
(Excerpt) Read more at theeprovocateur.blogspot.com ...
...getting crowded under that bus Daley?
Daley lied and Chicago’s chances died...
“In essence, one of the reasons that Chicago lost was that Daley’s machine politics didn’t transfer over to the IOC all that well.”
In other words the Olympic Committee felt they might be out hustled by the Daly machine. A den of thieves I tell you.
geez, I’ll bet that except for the contractors that build the stadiums etc and a few service-type businesses, the Games are simply and nothing but a tremendous expense to taxpayers before, during, and then even after the “Games”......I’d vote to return them to Greece forever!
Oxymoron?
Back to Greece, and back to amateurs. Get the pros out of. It!
I think if Obama only would go on TV and address the Olympic Committee 27 times, it might help....
And corruption doesn’t happen in Rio de Janiero????
That’s about right, though there’s plenty of business folks that would benefit.
I’m sure it’s worse, but I don’t think that Rio’s reps lied and said there was none.
If Daley couldn't get to operate within budget under normal circumstances, what made him think adding a few billion onto that under extraordinary circumstances would be better?
there’s so many taxes that can be raised. He had plenty to work with.
Cook County is one of, if not THE highest taxed county’s in the country. 12% sales tax, whether you live in Chicago or not.
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