Telander Spanks Daley Again
The most dangerous four words in the world are these: Trust me this time.
That's what you hear from Mayor Daley and his 2016 Olympic-bid cronies. Those four words.
Forget the incessant city scandals that Daley knows ''nuttin' about.'' Forget the Daley relatives and pals lined up ass-to-elbow, snorting at the money trough. Forget the lakefront airport torn up in the middle of the night, the neighborhoods where school kids have as good a chance of getting shot as going to a four-year college, the police department that has had its morale ripped up and beaten to a pulp.
Forget -- dear God -- the parking-meter fiasco that will saddle our progeny with debt for so many years to come that you don't even want to mention street parking to any optimistic citizen under the age of 40.
As Telander notes, the Chicago Olympic bid is $4.8 billion. By comparison, the entire City of Chicago budget is just a shade under $6 billion. Daley is committing almost 80% of an entire year's worth of budget to a sporting event that was never even offered to the voters for an opinion. That's no money for jobs, social programs, building, clean-up, pensions, schools, whatever, for one entire year out of the next seven. Spent on a one-time blow out sporting event that will strain resources and put heretofore unknown pressures on an infrastructure that is already crumbling.
Oh, and the London games of 2012? The bid was about $4 billion (2.4 billion pounds). The latest estimate? About $32 billion (almost 20 billion pounds), a cost overrun TEN TIMES the bid amount. And that's in London, not Chicago, with its storied history of crooked construction contracting, fake minority front companies and connected subcontracting where everyone and their uncle gets a piece.
We are so screwed.
Labels: olympics
posted by SCC at 12:03 AM
62 Comments:
Chicago will burn if we get the olympics....it will kill this city, cant anyone help us ?
hello pat...I know read this... what do you think?
It's all LEGIT, kid". Don't worry about the cost, it's covered.
God Save the CPD.......
No one else can........
Still retired and grateful.....
Also do not forget, besides all the money that will be wasted/stolen, will be the total inconvience to people living/working in Chicago.
"Lined up ass to elbow.." Best description ever.
WE need to contact the tabloid media in Tokio, Rio and Madrid.
Barack Obama is the product of the most corrupt political crime family in American History.
Let them leak that to the Olympic Committee, B.O. was chosen to run as president because as a relative newbe to politics he didnt have (many) scandals attached to him that more seasoned Democrats would.
B.O.'s poliical friends are all crooks, thieves and liars, and name the names.
Blago got caught, Shortshanks is about to get grabed by the short-hairs. It cannot happen soon enough.
"...the Chicago Olympic bid is $4.8 billion. By comparison, the entire City of Chicago budget is just a shade under $6 billion. Daley is committing almost 80% of an entire year's worth of budget to a sporting event that was never even offered to the voters for an opinion..." -- SCC
A drunk betting the whole month's rent and food on one horse. Red-faced, waving his tickets, beating on the rail.
"Light Socket! C'mon, you sonofabitch! C'mon, Light Socket!"
Dare I say it?
MAYOR DALEY IS CLINICALLY INSANE.
this event will bankrupt the city. this is for the greater good of the city? says who? the only people who will benefit are those contract connected companies that will run 20xs over cost.its quite insane to put a 2 week event before the basic needs of this city.
SCC, that line: The most.dangerous four words in the world are these: 'Trust me this time'.
needs to be added here.
Hey SCC a good example of how the real costs will be is the O'Hare Modernization program. Didn't the original cost estimate for phase one go from 250 million to over 500 million? It's a joke! Mayor Daley is just making his friends rich.
We are so fvked
That's the scam, get the city to promise to cover the costs and then sign the contracts (which will go to the Daley connected businesses) and then the finale...Daley retires and walks away leaving the taxpayers holding the bill which will be around 15-20Billion dollars while saying if I were still the mayor it would have only been the initial costs so don't blame me....
The media could really stop this insanity, just check the books!!!
We can't afford crossing guards, but we have all this money for the Olympics.
I was on scene of a homicide in 015. After helping secure the scene, I watched a kitty cat come up to the blood and brains and start eating the brains. Good times in the west side ghetto.
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I hope you were just kidding.
Your job is to secure, preserve and protect the scene. That includes preserving it from felines or canines if necessary. A flashlight has worked for me in the past.
A/2 Dick
6/21/2009 07:38:00 PM
I hope you're kidding A/2 dork. A shit-head gets one in the head and I will never ever give a fuck.
If we get "Da 'Limpiks" we're fucked. If we dont get "Da 'Limpiks", we're fucked.
About the only way out of this is if Daley follows in daddys footsteps, and has a heart attack, like now!
Remember 1994?
I don't think so?
WORLD CUP SOCCER!
"The World Is Coming To Chicago"!
The city spent big dough for a week of
festivities, parades, a temporary bridge built across LSD to help pedestrians cross the Drive (1 million bucks spent for a temp bridge?), signs splattered everywhere for advertising, several thousand coppers on duty for overflow crowds and riot duty, 3 Presidential Motorcades for the opening (Clinton, Germany & who the F*ck knows), (Hillary had a seperate motorcade & seperate plane so she could shop without Bill, she was on to him long ago), and what was the result?
It was a total blow job.
Attendance was much smaller than predicted on the first day, nobody used the bridge, they all just walked into LSD and stopped traffic for about 1 hour, and the following days were very low attendance.
The big Hotels were pissed from low bookings, they lost big time. Those cheap pricks did not want to pay big bucks to watch soccer, so they stayed away.
The huge police presence was reduced to a normal downtown parade. The cost over runs were big.
Hell, more people show up for the 3rd of July fireworks (cause it's free).
DATELINE 1996!
Dumbocratic Convention!
Again, small businesses along Grand Avenue, Roosevelt Road and Randolph Street begin to prepare for thousands of convention attendees to spend a fortune in their shops and restaurants. The Gold Coast is ready to make BIG Money in sales to these goofs, who never leave their rooms, and only go to FREE parties at the hotels. Spending is way down.
The Mayor tells the city to get ready to reap the profits of these wealthy spenders and the hotel taxes the city will receive.
WRONG AGAIN!
The attendees were put on NEW Air Conditioned CTA buses with police officers on each bus, sent on the above routes (police on every corner of every route, with escort vehicles close in tow, so that no attendee would be hassled) from their hotels directly to 1800 W. Madison. And the return trip back to the hotels was the same.
The little business owners didn't see a penny from that bunch, and most lost quite a bit after they totaled up all their remodeling costs, some went out of business, others survived and made it back years later.
Thanks Mr. Mayor, you didn't lose anything, did you?
2016?
Do we need a Fortune Teller to predict the outcome?
This city cannot afford anymore of Daley's Stupid Ideas and wasteful spending of OUR money!
Mayor Mumbles will Bankrupt the City forever.
CPD Old timer. 30+ & waiting for a signed contract.
I shudder at the thought of Chicago winning the Olympic bid. Firstly, no one really gives a shit about the Olympics anymore.
It's a different culture out there and outside of World Cup Soccer and Olympic athletes, not many people care that much. I don't even bother to watch it on TV anymore. It s just not that interesting.
Undoubtedly there would be massive cost overruns and with Daley having to guarantee the money, where would it come from?
We all know the answer. Service cuts to those in the path of least resistance. Children, Seniors, Public Service and higher real estate taxes.
Chicago will become more of an uninhabitable shithole than it is already.
The writing is on the wall.
If Chicago gets the bid, seriously consider getting out of Dodge well beforehand.
And just so you know, someone "found" this money under a soiled mattress.
The recent dedication rally for a new school on Chicago's working-class Southwest Side drew a long list of political heavyweights, including the governor, the Illinois Senate's top Republican and some of the mayor's highest-ranking Latino aides.
The outdoor rally on 47th Street wasn't just about turning a former industrial bakery into a striking, luminous glass school building. It also was a display of political prowess by the people who built it.
The United Neighborhood Organization, the city's largest Latino community group, is poised to become the biggest charter school manager in Illinois after scoring a $98 million state grant to build eight more schools.
How UNO landed all that cash -- believed to be the largest-ever taxpayer windfall in the U.S. for a community-run charter group to build schools -- at a time of massive government budget deficits is a classic Chicago story of awakening immigrant clout and lobbying muscle.
More outrages from the Daley administration courtesy of he Sun-Times:
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http://www.suntimes.com/news/watchdogs/1633122,CST-NWS-watchdogs22.article#
City spends $22 million on rent
Chicago spends $22 million on rent, and look who's getting it
Comments
June 22, 2009
BY TIM NOVAK Staff Reporter
The city of Chicago spends more than $22 million a year leasing property, usually from clout-heavy landlords and often at higher rents than other tenants pay, a Chicago Sun-Times investigation has found.
One of those landlords has been in the public spotlight of late -- Mayor Daley's nephew Robert Vanecko. His real estate investment firm used city pension money to buy a Southwest Side warehouse that the city leases to park dump trucks, the Sun-Times has reported.
The city pays $37.42 per square feet to lease a 12,000-square-foot space in a strip mall for the Chinatown branch library.
In all, the city's Department of General Services says it has 75 leases for properties the city uses for such things as libraries, offices, warehouses and clinics.
But the list -- provided by the mayor's staff in response to a Sun-Times records request -- appears to be incomplete. It doesn't include, for instance, the warehouse at 3348 S. Pulaski that the city has occupied on a month-to-month lease since it was acquired by Vanecko and his partners in 2007. City Hall has paid them more than $480,000 in rent over the past 15 months.
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read the entire article at the link above, Daley is getting more well deserved criticism for more sweetheart leases to the clout heavy.
bravo again to Rick Telander.
He writes it exactly and precisely like it is.
I especially like:
"Trust the carpetbaggers and money-grubbers and imbeciles and would-be Pharaohs. They will take your money, people."
"They will."
"They always do."
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Thanks rt
A pox on the Daley family.
Anonymous said...
Hey SCC a good example of how the real costs will be is the O'Hare Modernization program. Didn't the original cost estimate for phase one go from 250 million to over 500 million? It's a joke! Mayor Daley is just making his friends rich.
6/22/2009 12:50:00 AM
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Millennium Park went from a projected cost of "only" $125 million to way over $500 million with the true cost never made public.
Somebody must stop this crook!
To the poster of the info on the 1996 DNC, don't forge the cost of campaign ribbons for every sworn CPD member who had a pulse during the event.
I want to vote "no" for the Chicago 2016 Olympics.
Where can I cast my vote? Is there a ballot box somewhere or something?
Telander is an elitist parasite. Go back and piss on the bushes in Lake Forest.
Anonymous said...
If we get "Da 'Limpiks" we're fucked. If we dont get "Da 'Limpiks", we're fucked.
About the only way out of this is if Daley follows in daddys footsteps, and has a heart attack, like now!
6/22/2009 02:40:00 AM
Daley already signed the "pledge" to guarantee Olympic funding with taxpayer cash. Eliminating Daley from the equation at this point will not save us. Not to mention that Obama has Valerie Jarrett on the case, full-time, to get the Olympics here, as well.
THIS may be our only hope. Get the rest of the country's taxpayers to cover the cost overruns instead of just the city taxpayers ! ! !
The Olympics were once a GREAT event..... the Olympics (summer) should be held every 4 years in Athens. Athens is the birthplace of the Olympics and just hosted them... countries that want to compete each time would have to pay into a maintenance fee to enter. Any profits would be shared amongst the participating countries. Greece is PROUD of the Olympics and I'm sure would not mind running them....
Now Fund Our PENSION!!!!!!!!!
All that needs to be said here is "Millennium Park". It cost $475 million to design and build.
The project was OVER BUDGET by $350 million and four years behind schedule.
http://www.ncbg.org/public_works/millennium
_park.htm
No problem, the Mayor will dig into the City Pension system like his friends and family has done for years and assume the obligations of paying out millions each month.
We know what a great fan of the Olympics Daley always has been.
Da 'mare will just tell us to trust him, this time he will get it right.
By 2016, Daley will no longer be Mayor, (or maybe even alive for that matter), nor will Obama be President.
The 2016 Olympics will be the bane of the next generation of politicians. By then, my tax money will be going to a small town somewhere else in the U S.
How UNO landed all that cash -- believed to be the largest-ever taxpayer windfall in the U.S. for a community-run charter group to build schools -- at a time of massive government budget deficits is a classic Chicago story of awakening immigrant clout and lobbying muscle.
6/22/2009 05:19:00 AM
I feel like I'm in one of those horror movies. You know the ones. The Cold War threat movies like Invasion of the Body Snatchers, where you are the only one that sees the threat and everyone else is just going about their business, clueless.
The city needs money, budget crunch, layoffs. Then why is the city buying Toyotas when GM, Ford, and Chrysler are offering the best prices in their history. Which nephew sells Toyotas.
The media wants the olymics.
A huge thank you to a GREAT JOURNALIST.It is a shame though,that a SPORTSWRITER has to illuminate shadowy practices.MR TELANDER is truly a class act.
cfd and cpd unions need to sue now,save our pensions!
OT
Am I the only person in this city to wonder why we don't have a pedestrian bridge over LSD at the fountain?
It seems like a no brainer.
We, the citizens, DESERVE a safe foot bridge to OUR lakefront at a convienient place, ie, the fountain.
No one tells King Richard "NO"
NO ONE!
Welcome to Daleyland
http://welcometodaleyland.blogspot.com/
I have always been a fan of MR TELANDER,sometimes not always agreeing with, but still respectful of his opinions.THANK YOU,someone needs to expose the blatant corruption.
In CHICAGO graft/corruption are actually a professional sport worthy of a full page in the Sunday paper.Our city is so ridiculous that the DALEY ADMINISTRATION is the 1927 YANKEES of NEFERIOUS MISCONDUCT.The real eye opener is that we now have an expansion team in D.C.The unfunny thing is that our season tickets are the most expensive in the league and we can't even get into the game.
Someone PLEASE HELP US,we CANNOT PROTECT YOU.Nobody is listening and it is going to cost countless #'s of lives this summer.
Anonymous said...
Hey SCC a good example of how the real costs will be is the O'Hare Modernization program. Didn't the original cost estimate for phase one go from 250 million to over 500 million? It's a joke! Mayor Daley is just making his friends rich.
6/22/2009 12:50:00 AM
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Ya and the airlines don't even want it!
http://www.heartland.org/policybot/results/
24467/Airlines_Stop_OHare_Airport_Expansion.
html
JULY 3rd THE TASTE OF ANARCHY.
Anonymous said...
Hey SCC a good example of how the real costs will be is the O'Hare Modernization program. Didn't the original cost estimate for phase one go from 250 million to over 500 million? It's a joke! Mayor Daley is just making his friends rich.
6/22/2009 12:50:00 AM
And rosie andolino the old valet for victor reyes is running it,another daley "puppet on a string"! She learned to be quiet from quiet victor reyes! Now she makes almost $300,000! SHHHHH Rosie!
6/22/2009 05:19:00 AM
8 more schools? for the freeloaders! 3 more years then on to Tennessee!
We do not need this olypmic!! The cost will put us into a deep deep hole.......Here's King Richie's idea....lets get the olympics, make a cost over run and bury the city and then quit and blame everyone else for the short fall of all his plans! This will be his way of saying "Fuck You, City of Chicago and all you citizens!!"
Why doesn't TELANDER team up with JOHN KASS to start a movement to get a vote/protest to determine if the city really wants this crap.We will not have use of OUR CITY until after this fiasco,and I for one kinda like my home.I am tired of paying for other people to destroy MY CITY and we have to clean up their mess.SOLDIER FIELD is a glowing example,take it and multiply by a 1,000 for what we can expect.
Anonymous said...
I was on scene of a homicide in 015. After helping secure the scene, I watched a kitty cat come up to the blood and brains and start eating the brains. Good times in the west side ghetto.
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I hope you were just kidding.
Your job is to secure, preserve and protect the scene. That includes preserving it from felines or canines if necessary. A flashlight has worked for me in the past.
A/2 Dick
6/21/2009 07:38:00 PM
I hope you're kidding A/2 dork. A shit-head gets one in the head and I will never ever give a fuck.
6/22/2009 01:47:00 AM
Sometimes you eat the kitty and sometimes it eats you.
Anyone remember the Chicago Circulator Project, the light-rail commuter trolley which was set to link various location Downtown on fixed track? Project had state and federal funding, and Chicago only needed to contribute the remain 1/3 of funding. Daley suddenly pulled plug on project, despite its attractive financing package. He was afraid of offending business interests by the street reconstruction required to achieve the project. All that engineering work went to waste.
I worked on that project, at a fairly senior level, as a non-political employee-consultant employed by a politically-connected developer. We were repeatedly told: "all information presented to Mayor Daley must be a 3rd-grade reading level" because of his cognitive level. Basically he's a dim fellow, suspicious, not trusting anyone beyond his narrow circle, easily angered, not inquisitive, and probably easily manipulated by his core group of friends (Mr. Harlem-Irving shopping center, and the Bridgeport guys...)
"The outdoor rally on 47th Street wasn't just about turning a former industrial bakery (that made good things to eat and provided hundreds of jobs) into a striking, luminous glass school building (that absorbs endless tax money and produces nothing except hostile, radically indoctrinated children). It also was a display of political prowess by the people who built it."
--6/22/2009 05:19:00 AM
with retirement just around the corner, what yyou think hes going to live on, his PENSION hahahahaha. got to have my kitty like all the others
All hail King Shortshanks! Long may he reign over our fair city state!
NO OLYMPICS PASS IT ON.
HUBRIS, that pretty much sums up the little tyrant.
Daley doesn't need a spanking ! He needs some high velocity whacks in the head with a 2 x 4. He needs to be brought back to reality, real quick like !!!!
Remember Millenium Park? The cost overuns there were insane! But shortshanks wanted to dazzle. Just imagine what he can do with the Olympics!
Well, while Daley stays behind, Pat Ryan gets sent back to talk up the big bucks that DALEY says we'll be putting up for the Olympics only he wants. Hey Pat, if it's such a no gamble deal, you and your insurance outift should put up the dough. Aren't you the guy that the Beave would say is the "Hog with the Big Nuts".
Retired 12 years.............
I have no doubt that no Spaniard or Brazilian or Japanese fellow will out hustle and out maneuver or out bribe our own King of Thieves, Richard M. Daley.
Chicago will get the Olympics, I have no doubt of that, it's the Chicago Way, you can go to Vegas and put some money on it like I will.
But I will be beyond caring since I will have been retired three years by time some little son or daughter of some political hack comes trotting into Patrick Ryan Olympic Stadium and lights the Olympic flame.
And our Mayor in 2016, Patrick Daley will smile and be pleased for he will know his retirement is secured. So will Mayoral Chief of Staff Robert Vanecko and Cook County Board President for life Todd Stroger.
We are doomed.
The Security Budget for 2016 Games is estimated at 3.5 billion dollars currently. This number could easily double by the time 2016 rolls around. Chicago needs to walk away from this now!
Before everyone gets their hopes up for our federal prosecutor, remember that Daleys nephew, Vanecko is being represented by a former federal prosecutor. Sklarsky of Jenner & Block. Jenner & Block have strong ties to Burke. Burke appoints the judges. Vanecko will be found guilty. NOT NEVER NOPE
Danny Davis, crook, former Ald Mike Chandler, crook, Bobby Rush, crook, almost a pol Charlie Allen, a sex offender and crook, friend and endorsed by Mike Chandler .. hmm let me think - who else
WASN'T THE ORIGINAL BID FOR MILLENNIUM PARK AROUND 80 MIL, AND IT TURNED OUT TO BE ABOUT 500 MIL
Anonymous said...
Telander is an elitist parasite. Go back and piss on the bushes in Lake Forest.
6/22/2009 07:28:00 AM
If that is true, then I am now a big fan of elitist parasites. I will piss on a bush with Rick Telander anywhere.
- 25 year PO
Daley is so dirty and corrupt that you don't have to be a "resonable" thinking man to see it. It's so far beyond obvious that there is no word in the dictionary to describe Daley's slickness. He goes on TV and talks about financial doom and gloom and layoff, but later tells the olympic committee about financial guarantees and money piles. Nearly 80% of the public doesn't want the olympics but he still presses on.
He's in "the know" about all the great things that happen under his watch, but his corrupt friends he knows nothing. The media and the feds are either in his pocket or just DUMB!!! Daley will crush this city for his own gain and legacy on his way out.
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