Telander: Daley's 'Trust Me' On Olympics Dangerous

Chicago Sun-Times:

The most dangerous four words in the world are these: Trust me this time. That's what you hear from Mayor Daley and his 2016 Olympic-bid cronies. Those four words.

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Comments

[thundermummy]

04:22 PM on 06/23/2009

Trust the man who bulldozed Meigs Field in the middle of the night? Trust the man who sold the Skyway and parking meters out from under the taxpayers? Trust the man who said the Millennium Parking Garage would pay for Millennium Park? He has chutzpah but no trust.

[47th]

07:11 PM on 06/23/2009

We should not trust a guy who as States attorney for Cook county in the 80,s, looked the other way while cops beat confession­s out of innocent men! Daley's time is up!

[Mahi Joe]

09:12 AM on 06/23/2009

Yeah we trusted Daley on Millennium Park.

Budget: $350 million over budget

Time: Four years after proposed completion date.

No more Daley Lies!!!!!

[MovingtoNorway]

06:24 PM on 06/22/2009

What's with this light blue ties? Seems like all the power guys wear them now. Is this some special club I don't belong to?

[chrisfrmchi]

04:46 PM on 06/22/2009

The Olympics was "bought" for Chicago years ago. Obama is another credit to the reason why Chicago will be rewarded the Olympics as well. Why is this interestin­g because the south side of Chicago is where they are planning to place the Olympic games. They will gut all the south side of Chicago of the low income residents to get their Olympics, leaving those landowners and slumlords in Chicago to profit from it. Oh lake shore drive will be closed for 3 years during the constructi­on as well....an­d Chicago will pay for it.

[DawnK]

11:35 AM on 06/22/2009

Daley sux. He has sold us out.

[Cogs]

11:21 AM on 06/22/2009

Daley is going for the gold. There will be a taste for everybody who plays ball.

[Ravyn]

07:09 AM on 06/22/2009

Impossible to trust Daley on anything. He has no credibilit­y whatsoever­. And if the 2012 games' price of around $4+B multiplied by a factor of three for the British (to over $12B) it probably is not unreasonab­le to think with inflation and typical Chicago cost overruns that our same price estimate would more likely over four times over budget to somewhere in the neighborho­od of $16 billion. Aside from potential bankruptcy there would be the internatio­nal humiliatio­n if Chicago got the games but then couldn't deliver them because the money ran out and they got too far behind in schedule. Well, the world sure would remember the city's name then.

[BushBites]

11:31 PM on 06/21/2009

Daley's "trust me" on anything is dangerous.

[Bude]

10:07 PM on 06/21/2009

Trust Daley? You're kidding me. The Dick Daley has put the taxpayers of Chicago and the State of Illinois on the hook for some serious money.

[47th]

08:51 PM on 06/21/2009

Daley is hiding out in Amman Jordan, of all places, for the next TWO WEEKS! Ya gotta come back and face the music sometime Daley!

[Mahi Joe]

07:32 PM on 06/21/2009

I seem to remember Daley creating all that hype about Millennium Park only to find out later that it went $350 million over budget and was four years late in constructi­on.

[shocktreatment]

04:45 PM on 06/21/2009

DaleyCo has violated the public trust each and every time it has been profitable to do so. He has played nothing straight, ever. Even when their is no "need" for deceit, he strives to deceive. It is pathologic­.