Voted yes, not fired up with the no result but im getting more dissapointed with it after talking to people who voted no and the reasoning, based on ideas and issues that are not even true. Really hope thats not the case for the bast majoroty of no voters.
-Want the money spent in other ways (which it will be for the most part, not in calgary though)
-Too much for a 3 week party (sure, although honestly i voted yes for the cash influx and platform to sell/rebrand calgary leading up to and during the games, pump money into facilities and help sell calgary as a premire winter sport/fun city)
-General misinformation about the funding, security costs and even where the events would be held.
-Sticking it to the ROC by not hosting a party for their sake, retaliation for not approving pipelines, crapping on Ab etc (pretty sure the ROC isnt too concerned their tax dollars wont be going to calgary to host the event)
There was confusion and issues with the bid, largely due to the 3 levels of government unfortunately.
IOC has their own issues and i totally get a no vote citing concerns with dealing with them.
Of course a bid would have been risky but in other breaking news, taxes are going to go up no matter what, likely including to pay for things that olympic funding would have covered.
I dont think we are becoming detroit but in my opinion this city desperately needed something to look forward to and rally around, other than go/no go pipelines and oil prices. Both of which are out of our control and not exactly going in our favour, regardless of what industry you work in.
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