Well, if it’s about publicity, then who is going garner more attention? A bunch of no-name Utah state legislators, or the 9/11 families, just a few short months after the most devastating attack on U.S. soil since Pearl Harbor.
So, from a business perspective, the 9/11 families would have garnered *far* more publicity than those unknown backwater pols.
IIRC President Bush was also at the Olympics. By your thinking I suppose it was also wrong to have that politician there too.
Also, if by chance you someday open a business, be sure to invite a bunch of widows and orphans to it, all expenses paid by you, of course, and let me know what your profit was.