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Originally Posted by Regorium
This is an election which can be a case study of how money influences politics because of how vastly different the resources were between the two sides.
Three weeks ago, it was pretty much a no vote. The unbiased city committee recommended to stop all work and not to proceed with the plebiscite. 8 councillors voted not to proceed.
Since that point, we have had hundreds of radio, TV, online ads, athletes flown in from around the country and the world to talk about why the Olympics are amazing. I see election-esque road signs for YES everywhere. Everyone now suddenly is lining up to give massive corporate handouts in Calgary - the city of fiscal conservatism.
Amazing how money works in this world.
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While true, the 'Yes' side has been significantly more vocal, but the substance of the bid as well as the fundamental financing structure changed significantly since that vote.
That recommendation to abandon was done because of uncertainty and disagreement concerning financing through all levels of Government and those concerns, outwardly at least, appear to have been allayed with the resolution and clarity concerning the financing.
Which is a huge point of contention for Calgarian taxpayers because everyone wants to know who is going to pay for all of this and at that point it was uncertain but everything seems to have been resolved and there is more clarity now.
I mean, 'More Clarity' is relative, I still find the overall funding model rather nebulous.
Still though, it was a major hurdle and concern that appears to have been more or less overcome, at least to a point where it might sway some undecided votes.