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Originally Posted by Senator Clay Davis
Lol and there's the nightmare scenario, majority of council votes to kill, but not enough to actually kill. The clown show continues, but now with more athletes and bigwigs trying to save this thing.
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It's Druh asking the reasonable questions?
https://calgarysun.com/opinion/colum...lking-dead-bid
Calgarians will vote Nov. 13 on a bid the city council majority want to kill.
On a bid even the chairman of city council’s Olympic committee wants to kill — and he loves the Olympics.
An Olympic bid where the city is not setting up open houses explaining the details because there isn’t time.
An Olympic bid where the Yes side will spend a million bucks and carpet-bomb the city with ads and commercials.
An Olympic bid where a cost-benefit analysis isn’t done, where the city brass are still going through the convoluted arithmetic, where blacked-out facts are still blacked out.
And it is an Olympic bid where those who whine most about misinformation are the ones who love to go behind closed doors and give us as little info as possible.
Olympic bid boss Scott Hutcheson decides to be snarky, giving the No side city councillors a little of the high-and-mighty treatment. “Some of you will say today there’s still not enough information and others will say we don’t understand the financial deal well enough.
Coun. Druh Farrell talks about similar comments made behind closed doors Tuesday where people on the No side are painted as not caring about Calgary as much as the Yes side.
Then Druh asks the question on every reasonable person’s mind.
“If we’re struggling to understand the complexity of this new agreement, how can we expect Calgarians to understand?”