So the City Council is set to sign the Mayor’s 2016 blank check and will give oversight of our taxes for the games to Alderman Ed Burke, Chairman of the City Council Finance Committee. This clearly won’t work for Chicago’s taxpayers. The Alderman has so many conflict of interests representing firms that do business with …
As reported online by the Chicago Sun-Times: The City Council’s Finance Committee today set the stage to remove the single-biggest impediment to Chicago’s 2016 Olympic bid — by authorizing Mayor Daley to sign a host-city contract that amounts to an open-ended guarantee from Chicago taxpayers. Chicago’s reluctance to match the blank-check promise to cover Olympic …
From CLTV’s “Garrard McClendon Live.” Watch No Games organizer Tom Tresser on the September 2 show. Olympic nonsense in the ghetto Garrard McClendon on 09.02.09 | 6 comments // | Watch Garrard’s commentary on Olympics. Mayor Daley should concentrate on gun violence before the Olympics. I would rather see billions spent on eradicating crime than …
Patrick Kissane of Chi-Town Daily News thinks that public subsidies of for-profit sports stadiums are rip offs. And he thinks the 2016 Olympics would be one, too… We live in a truly Orwellian place called Chicago. Guided by the mayor and the local Olympic boosters, we are being sold tripe about the economic benefits to …
As reported in today’s Chicago Tribune: Olympic opposition getting second wind as support in Chicago fades 47 percent of Chicagoans polled favor the bid, but that support had been at 61 percent in February Support in Chicago for the 2016 Summer Olympic Games has dwindled, with residents now sharply divided over whether the city should …
Mindful Metropolis’s Jacob Wheeler reviews the Olympic possibilities in the September issue: Will Chicago’s bid for the 2016 games adorn the Windy City in beautiful rings or lock it in handcuffs? Imagine two glorious weeks of summer when the entire world comes to nearby Chicago — which is our local city, judging by the number …
As reported in the Chicago Sun-Times: Mayor Daley’s chief of staff got a whopping 41 percent pay raise — to $250,000 a year — when she jumped off the City Hall merry-go-round to become president of Chicago’s 2016 Olympic bid. Even with that $72,784-a-year pay raise, former chief of staff Lori Healey is not the …
Alderman Manny Flores officially became a cheerleader for the 2016 bid today when he backed off his own legislation to protect Chicago taxpayers from unlimited exposure from the 2016 bid and introduced an Olympics_Oversight_Ordinance. He has apparently forgotten his earlier bill, introduced to the City Council at its June meeting. That bill, which had 11 …
No Games Chicago today issued its own review of the Civic Federation’s review of the 2016 Committee’s finances. “What we’ve got here is the sheep paying the foxes to audit the wolves” said No Games organizer Tom Tresser. “There are so many conflicts of interest in the inception, staffing and execution of this report as …