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LA Mayor: Trump victory could turn off IOC voters to '24 bid
Associated Press ^ | Aug 6, 2016 7:50 PM EDT | Stephen Wilson

Posted on 08/06/2016 7:01:10 PM PDT by Olog-hai

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To: Olog-hai; All

remember- obama’s victory in ‘08 all but assured chicago the 2016 olympics when they voted in 2009....or so they thought..

Chicago Loses Olympic Bid; CNN Freaks Out: “WHAT!?”

enjoy this video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EuE60mq0r1Q


21 posted on 08/06/2016 7:09:31 PM PDT by God luvs America (63.5 million pay no income tax and vote for DemoKrats...)
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To: Olog-hai

Well, that’s it. Guess I gotta vote for Hillary now. Because my heart would shatter if LA weren’t able to host that ridiculous carnival of corruption and steroid-bloated bodies that is what the Olympics has become. After Rio they’ll be adding turd-hurdling to the water events and LA might just be the appropriate venue by then...


22 posted on 08/06/2016 7:10:06 PM PDT by Billthedrill
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To: Olog-hai

Oh, well.


23 posted on 08/06/2016 7:10:15 PM PDT by Southside_Chicago_Republican (If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they do not want to hear.)
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To: bboop

Because having a sporting event in one of the most polluted cities in America is a way to show the world how committed the leftists are to the environment.


24 posted on 08/06/2016 7:10:38 PM PDT by EQAndyBuzz (Common Sense, Trump and Pence. More of the same, Clinton and Kaine.)
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To: Olog-hai

By all accounts, Los Angeles is a third-world city.


25 posted on 08/06/2016 7:11:37 PM PDT by Extremely Extreme Extremist (TRUMP THAT BEYOTCH!)
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To: Olog-hai

Didn’t Obuttma kiss IOC ass and get turned down?
What is this fool talking about?


26 posted on 08/06/2016 7:11:49 PM PDT by Sivad (NorCal red turf.)
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To: Olog-hai

Trump is like globull warming... he is responsible for EVERYTHING.


27 posted on 08/06/2016 7:12:43 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum (If you are not prepared to use force to defend civilization, then be prepared to accept barbarism.)
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To: Olog-hai
If Trump loses Mexico can bid to host the Los Angeles Olympics.
28 posted on 08/06/2016 7:13:06 PM PDT by KarlInOhio (Shut up, Bob Costas. Shut up! Shut up! Shut up! Shut up! Shut up! Shut up!)
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To: KarlInOhio
It's the same thing.


29 posted on 08/06/2016 7:14:46 PM PDT by dfwgator
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To: Olog-hai

I wonder if Mittens had anything to do with this? Being close to the IOC and all...


30 posted on 08/06/2016 7:14:57 PM PDT by granite (The heart of the wise inclines to the right, but the heart of the fool to the left - Ecc 10:2)
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Live Reaction: Chicago Loses Olympics Bid

3:35 mark “and with this president, barry obama, who has an international flavor and an international following ...there may have been a great deal of international appeal and obama may put chitcago over the edge...but that did not happen”

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CYQPTvLvAf4


31 posted on 08/06/2016 7:15:05 PM PDT by God luvs America (63.5 million pay no income tax and vote for DemoKrats...)
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To: Olog-hai
I'd like to see the other 49 states work together to keep this crap out of America in 2024. I'm not ready to surrender my freedom and way of life just so the @$$holes in Los Angeles can host a bunch of goofy games.

If you remember, Bonzo worked "harder than I have ever worked in my life," to get these stupid 2016 Olympics in Chicago. OIC settled for Rio, of all places. LOL!!! I guess the turds running the OIC weren't too impressed with Bonzo either. The turd who wrote this article needs to knock off all the liberal flatulence.

32 posted on 08/06/2016 7:15:05 PM PDT by FlingWingFlyer (Let's Make Our Government and Founding Documents Great Again!)
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To: Olog-hai

The Olympics are a corrupt, parasitic boondoggle that lose money for their host victims and even cause tourism to fall.

“During the 2012 Games, the Adelphi Theatre in London’s West End suspended performances of “Sweeney Todd.” The British Museum received 480,000 visitors that August, down from 617,000 the previous year. Indeed, Britain received about 5 percent fewer foreign visitors in August 2012 than it did in the same month the previous year. Those who showed up spent more, sure, but London spent billions of dollars to lure them.”
http://www.nytimes.com/2014/08/10/magazine/does-hosting-the-olympics-actually-pay-off.html?_r=0

“The 2008 Beijing games, the priciest ever, are reckoned to have cost about $40 billion. ... Beijing saw a drop in hotel bookings during its Olympic summer.”
http://www.economist.com/blogs/economist-explains/2013/09/economist-explains-0

“But hotels may not see the high demand—or high prices—they expect. Barcelona and Athens did not fill their 13,000-16,000 rooms. London has 125,000.”
“British residents have bought 95% of the 3.5m tickets sold so far, reports the London 2012 Organising Committee.”
http://www.economist.com/node/21538203


33 posted on 08/06/2016 7:15:15 PM PDT by fluorescence
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To: Olog-hai

ummmm. no.


34 posted on 08/06/2016 7:15:16 PM PDT by NYRepublican72 (Radical Islamic terrorist Omar Mateen is "Ready for Hillary!" Are you too?)
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To: BlessedBeGod

exactly. F em. We’llwin the most gold medals anyway so who cares if they’re over here. The world still hates us even after Bush.


35 posted on 08/06/2016 7:15:18 PM PDT by max americana (fired every liberal in our company at every election cycle..and laughed at their faces (true story))
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To: Olog-hai

I’d like to slap that Taco!


36 posted on 08/06/2016 7:15:19 PM PDT by BOOHA
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To: Olog-hai
I give Mayor Garcetti’s gratuitous comments the consideration they merit...none.
37 posted on 08/06/2016 7:15:53 PM PDT by DakotaGator (Weep for the lost Republic! And keep your powder dry!!)
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To: God luvs America
Turns out it would have been icing on the cake if Chicago had gotten the Olympics.

They would have had to declare every Chapter of the bankruptcy code with all the red ink they'd be swimming in.

38 posted on 08/06/2016 7:16:34 PM PDT by who_would_fardels_bear
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To: max americana
The world still hates us even after Bush.

Let's drop the big one now.

39 posted on 08/06/2016 7:16:40 PM PDT by dfwgator
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To: Olog-hai

Good. Money saved


40 posted on 08/06/2016 7:17:07 PM PDT by headstamp 2 (Fear is the mind killer.)
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