- Just hours before Chicago's Olympic bid team begins a ward-by-ward effort to rebuild public support for the Games Mayor Richard Daley gave one of his most passionate pleas for the Olympics to date.
"We have to worry about the future," Daley said during questioning by reporters. "If people keeping throwing darts at it, maybe [we] will not get it."
Daley said he believes the 2016 Olympic Games will provide economic opportunities for Chicago and its residents that will be the envy of America. "You tell me one economic program that anyone has offered both in the private sector and public sectors. Every other city would love to have this."
London is wishing they didn't have them. Vancouver is wishing they didn't have them either, and that's just the Winter ones.
Pat Ryan, chairman of the Chicago 2016 committee, still can't find an insurance company willing to back the bid to protect taxpayers from overruns. You know why? These are people who do risk management for a living...and they don't want to touch it. What does that tell you? And does anyone have any idea what the cost would be to get a policy like what Daley is talking about? The insurance carriers aren't going to give Shortshanks a $10 billion policy for $10 a month. It's going to be something on the order of $500 million premium per $1 billion in overruns - all paid for by taxpayers.
What a freaking bargain!
Pat Ryan, chairman of the Chicago 2016 committee, still can't find an insurance company willing to back the bid to protect taxpayers from overruns. You know why? These are people who do risk management for a living...and they don't want to touch it. What does that tell you? And does anyone have any idea what the cost would be to get a policy like what Daley is talking about? The insurance carriers aren't going to give Shortshanks a $10 billion policy for $10 a month. It's going to be something on the order of $500 million premium per $1 billion in overruns - all paid for by taxpayers.
What a freaking bargain!
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