Daley's Olympic Rant

At the Chicago 2016 volunteers final luncheon:

• Daley started his remarks by calling on the federal government to financially back all future U.S. Olympic bids. It was too difficult for U.S. cities to raise the necessary funds in such short amounts of time, while their competitors often received financial assistance from their national governments, he said.
  
  "He started by saying we spent $75 million, and the next city was going to have to spend $100 million, and we didn't even have a chance," said one attendee, paraphrasing the mayor, who was the driving force behind the bid. "It was all politics and all money. All politics and all money. (The International Olympic Committee) didn't care about the athletes, and they didn't care about the quality of the bid."
  
  Another attendee said she came away from the 15-minute speech believing the city never understood the depth of its disadvantage. And Daley reportedly told the group that had the city known from the start that the International Olympic Committee was intent on taking the games to new regions of the globe, they never would have spent the time or the money on the effort.

$75 million? And how much of that was "corporate donations" that was actually "quid pro quo" money? Does that include the $38 million spent on Reese Hospital land? The mayor constantly harped on "no public funds" but no one believed it.

We think that Shortshanks is more upset at being beaten at his own game of "all politics and all money" by people he considered beneath him. He thinks he was upstaged by a bunch of rank amateurs and hicks when in reality, he got schooled. And he was naive enough to think that these people would stay bought once he thought they were bought and he can't very well go asking they return the suitcases the same way they were delivered.