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By: Hillary Is 44 » Blog Archive » The Chicago Olympic Tombstone

Hillary Is 44 » Blog Archive » The Chicago Olympic Tombstone — Fri, 02 Oct 2009 01:44:43 +0000

[...] Genuine community organizers are against the license to fleece which the International Olympics Committee is asked to grant Obama and Daley: But Rhoda Whitehorse, a retired public school teacher and 40-year Chicagoan who traveled to Copenhagen with the group No Games Chicago to urge the IOC to reject the city’s bid, said that Obama, Daley, Jarrett and other Olympic backers are underestimating the mounting popular opposition in their hometown to the games. [...]

By: NeeCee

NeeCee — Wed, 30 Sep 2009 22:04:09 +0000

I’m a life long Demarcate, who paid long distance phone charges and extra electric bill, charges as a campaigner for Obama/Biden. I do support the President, and I also believe we (Chicago) need to take care of the needs of this city first and foremost, and for that; concern for my city and the people who live here, I shouldn’t have to move to Milwaukee. Which is a suggestion that has a Republic tone, don’t you think? Sorry the rhetoric read by former Olympians who at some point in their lives live here, broadcasted 4 times during my weekly bus commute on how wonderful it will be to see the new Olympic stadium in Washington Park and something about being friendly, just didn’t wash my brain. Having to work in a dead end job while looking for something better after being laid off of a management level position in Bush’s legacy, I tell ya, I’d rather my tax dollars go else where, thank you.

By: DLouis

DLouis — Tue, 29 Sep 2009 21:17:40 +0000

I bet all of you No Games people are just bitter Republicans who hope that Obama is a failure. Grow up. If you don’t want your city to host the Olympics, move to Milwaukee. It’s much easier than throwing mud on the city that you supposedly love.

By: CityofChicago

CityofChicago — Fri, 25 Sep 2009 23:49:54 +0000

You guys typically censor people? Why did my comment not past moderation? You have my e-mail so you can respond. If the questions I posed were too much because not even No Games Chicago has the answers then you guys should change your stance. You’re worse than Daley. The irony, you guys even want to protest.

By: Dale Lehman

Dale Lehman — Mon, 20 Jul 2009 22:24:32 +0000

Max,
Get a grip on it. If it helps, negitave thoughts about fellow citizens and the shame you claim to be burdened with might be better addressed with prozac on the cheap. That would leave the rest of us unburdened by the debt that the ‘Games” would leave Chicagoians hobbled with. It is infantile of you to demand that other people “leave the city” or go into debt to give you what. Chicago is already on the list of important cities; hosting the Games would merely put us on a short list of saps. I bet you were hot to invest with Berni too when he was the rage. P.T. Barnum knew your measure. The I.O.C. and the way they run their athletic monopoly is rife with fraud. Perhaps that is why you see Chicago as a natural setting for them. Should you care about much other that your own wants, I recommend the book “Five Ring Circus – Myths and Realities of the Olympic Games” by Chris Shaw.

By: Carolyn Smith

Carolyn Smith — Fri, 03 Jul 2009 12:17:28 +0000

Really very impressed with this here in London. Very best of luck with your lobbying.

By: Chicago Fan

Chicago Fan — Fri, 19 Jun 2009 16:56:03 +0000

Okay.

A deal with Latin School and the Chicago Park District that was with no public participation is somehow the fault of No Games Chicago?

Anything built with taxpayer dollars is not free. Property owners pay for it each year.

What improvements? The City may have to pay billions of dollars if the Olympic bid’s funding sceme is not successful. Imagine having to build venues, an Olympic Village, and do all the things us City residents expect a City to do. The Federal government will not help us out with carrying out the Olympics, we will have to do it ourselves.

By: Chicago/southsider

Chicago/southsider — Fri, 19 Jun 2009 03:01:55 +0000

I say we need to start marching by the hundreds on City Hall and let the Mayor and the Aldermen know that we are no taken this laying down No More This is not Daley city to do with as he please THE WORD FOR TODAY IS IMPEACHMENT

By: Smith

Smith — Thu, 18 Jun 2009 18:51:45 +0000

I live in the city and work in the loop. “Work” is the key word as everyone who actually works for a living will have to poney up for this boondoggle.

You may be right about it putting Chicago on the map, since yet again we will look like screwed idiots and will be the laughing stock of the rest of the world.

No more Cook County taxes, no more Daily crime syndicate.

By: Lincoln Park

Lincoln Park — Thu, 18 Jun 2009 16:39:56 +0000

These guys are just self promoters. They care nothing about the City. They successfully pinned us taxpayer with the cost of that soccer field that would have been free to the public. Now they want to deny us the improvements that the Olympics could bring to Chicago and the USA. Please stop doing us favors and stay in Switzerland