Well, later this morning we’ll find out if it’s Rio or Chicago (or maybe even Tokyo or Madrid) hosting the 2016 Olympics Games. 

One of us might, just MIGHT, be making an appearance on the BBC to talk about the “Save Our City” efforts here in Chicago, as so many of us here in the City tried our level best to let the IOC know what financial disaster awaits the Olympics in the hands of the crooks running Chicago and the state of Illinois.  We don’t know what time we’ll be interviewed, or if they’ll even use us, but if we get on we’ll update here so you can listen. Heaven knows the American press is strictly prohibited from reporting on the 47% of Chicagoans (in the latest polls) who DO NOT WANT THE OLYMPICS TO COME HERE, primarily because we do not trust our Mayor or city government to manage the finances properly, without graft and corruption. 

What seems to be the biggest motivator in people saying NO! to the Games is the parking meter debacle that forced many residents to open their eyes to Daley’s corruption.  That parking meter deal…where the City sold the rights to parking meter collection to an outside company for $1 billion dollars…will most certainly go down in history as the mistake that shook the Daley Dynasty from power, permanently.  Daley sold the rights, then the private company promptly tripled the parking fees, and has a lease on them for 99 years. Daley sold off a major source of City revenue for pennies compared to what those meters will generate longterm.  

If Chicago loses the Olympics today…we think it will be largely because of the lack of public support for the Games here, and for the parking meter and Block 37 (mismanaged real estate project with cost overruns in the hundreds of millions in the heart of the city) debacles that shined a light on the City’s corruption and poor track record with money.  

If Chicago wins, we know we’ll be busy around here for the next seven years, as Chicago will be a nonstop feeding trough of graft that we’ll report on from the ground as long as we live here. 

Sometime by noon, we’ll all know how this thing shakes out.

UPDATE:  We’re booked for the BBC’s “World Views” radio program from 2-3pm CST.  We will be talking about Chicago’s culture of corruption and the capacity for the Olympics to be the largest graft enterprise in American history — with Mayor Daley using the Games to install himself as King for Life and fund his cronies for generations.  Depending on how things go with the bid, the BBC may or may not use us as they have people in Tokyo and Rio ready to talk as well.   Right now, we’re one of two Chicago commentators ready…the other being someone who drank the Kool-Aid and believes the Games will be Hope, Change, Light, and Unicorns.  We have no idea how to catch the BBC’s radio program on American channels, but believe a podcast will be up with the BBC eventually.

UPDATE #2:  Thanks to a reader for the link to BBC radio:  www.bbc.co.uk/radio/