Anti-Olympic Movement Arises

Probably too late to actually affect anything, seeing as how the bid went out two days ago:

• Nearly two-thirds of Chicago-area residents want the city to host the 2016 Summer Olympic Games, but most don't want tax money to pay for it, a new Tribune poll found.
  
  Yet many supporters—as well as a vast majority of those opposed to bringing the Games here—don't buy the idea that private funds will cover nearly all the costs.
  
  Mayor Richard Daley's push for the Games was favored by 64 percent and opposed by 28 percent in the poll of registered voters from Chicago and the suburbs.
  
  But 75 percent of all those surveyed said they were against the use of tax money to cover any financial shortfalls.

Boy, aren't these sheep going to be surprised to hear the mayor has already gotten something on the order of $500 million in guarantees made up entirely of taxpayer money? During a recession and in the midst of the largest tax hikes in history.

Kass has his usual spot-on take of the whole sorry mess. Daley is taking this city to the cleaners and he'll ride off into the sunset leaving nothing but wreckage behind.