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Originally Posted by Iowa_Flames_Fan

I agree. I see this as an opportunity to build legacy infrastructure with dollars coming in from outside the city to defray some of that cost. And in many cases it's infrastructure we badly need.

I'm voting yes, even though I think:
1. the cost estimates are very uncertain and I doubt they are realistic;
2. it's way too soon to have a vote on this, as the details are far from clear;
3. no-one can accurately estimate the true cost of an Olympics event that will be held in this city 8 years from now.

To me a "yes" vote is just a vote to take this bid to the next step, and those details will become clearer as the bid materializes. I have to trust in our civic leadership that if things become unpalatable as the fog of war clears on this thing they will pull the plug if that is the right thing to do--but it makes no sense to me to stop this process now before it gets off the ground based on the assumption that things are going to go badly.

This.