This week in Olympic 2016 news, Beachwood style

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Steve Rhodes at the Beachwood Reporter takes apart this week’s Olympic committee business, so I don’t have to. Also, he’s funnier.

As more facts have emerged about the bid – pried from the cold, clammy hands of Chicago 2016 and City Hall – support has dropped.

In fact, you might say that there is a direct correlation between the exposure of facts and support for the bid.

Imagine that.

There’s a little something about the two proposed ordinances meant to monitor the city’s bid. One bad and the other ridiculously bad. Letting the city inspector general oversee things would be fine, if we actually had one. David Hoffman resigned last week to run for Senate and Mayor Daley gets to appoint his replacement. Yes, you read that right. Daley handpicks the successor to guy who holds city officials responsible.

Follow me even further down the rabbit hole.

The other option is to have two of the mayor’s aldermanic allies oversee Chicago 2016: Alds. Edward Burke and Carrie Austin.

Yes. And they would meet in Pat Ryan’s living room.

Rhodes nicely takes apart the Civic Federation’s independent analysis of the 2016 bid. The one that says the costs are sound and reasonable if absolutely everything goes according to the stated plan.

In other words, the bid is sound and reasonable as long as everything goes according to the planned soundness and reasonableness projected by organizers!

My plan to limit my drinking to only two beers this Friday night is sound and reasonable too, but history and common sense tells us that I probably will not behave in a sound and reasonable way.

After all, every plan emanating from City Hall is sound and reasonable – on paper. But those plans presume “competent management and extensive oversight.”

You know, like the oversight we can expect from Eddie Burke and Carrie Austin.

Read it here…

The Beachwood Reporter.