HELP! Save our city! Contact List of IOC voting members to tell them to send the Games to Rio!
The 2016 Olympic Games would destroy the city of Chicago financially.
Mayor Daley only wants these Games, and the Chicago political machine is only backing this bid, because the Olympics are a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity for milking billions of dollars out of city, state, and federal coffers to funnel to all of Daley’s family members, friends, and political allies.
On Friday the IOC will decide who gets the Olympics: Chicago or Rio. Technically, Madrid and Tokyo are still in the running too, but Asia just had the Beijing Games and London is hosting the Games in Europe in 2012. That makes Chicago and Rio feel like the only viable options.
As citizens of Chicago for the last 5-6 years, we’ve come to know this town well and can fully anticipate what impact winning the Olympics would have. It would open a Pandorrian box of greed, opportunism, waste, and corruption the likes of which none of us have ever seen.
People who understand the immense financial black hole the Olympics would be have mobilized to encourage the IOC to send the Games to Rio. Chicagoans who love this city are doing everything they can to save it from the destructive greed of Mayor Daley and the White House. We keep warning the IOC of the danger inherent in awarding the Games to Chicago…the same way Professor Jones warned the fools who tried opening another box no one ever should have opened…like this:
Now, winning the Olympics will not make people’s faces melt off (but if it does, we can only hope Oprah is there for that…and it happens a safe distance from the city itself, because there’s an awful lot of face on Oprah, so there’d be an awful lot of melted-face gushing everywhere). But, it will unleash the forces of graft and corruption Chicago is notorious for…and release them with a vengeance.
At every step of the way in the construction and planning process for these Games, the Chicago machine will exploit the vulnerability and naiveity of private donors, the IOC, and everyone in the federal government sending enormous checks Chicago’s way.
Please contact the following IOC members and tell them to give the Games to Rio, make history with the first South American Olympics, and avert years of scandal and bad headlines with all the corruption and embarrassingly bad deals the Chicago Olympics would bring. If Atlanta was a blot on the record books with its bombing and Salt Lake City shamed the IOC with its own scandals, just imagine what a PR nightmare Chicago could be.
Take it from people who know how things work here…the Chicago Games would be a nightmare…please make sure the following people know it (email blast list provided):
akcol@de16.vsnl.net.in, amsd@iam.net.ma, antongeesink@iocnetherlands.com, antun.vrdoljak@zg.hinet.hr, arne.ljungqvist@rf.se, austinsealy@sealygroup.com, baumann@giba.com, bea.allen@gmail.com, beckiescott2@aol.com, bubka@stels.net, carlos.nuzman@cob.org.br, chang@iocmember.at, chenchong@olympic.cn, ckwutpe@ms15.hinet.net, claudia@bokel.name, corinne@hroffice.ae, craig.reedie@boa.org.uk, drthbach@aol.com, elguerroujh@yahoo.fr, etude@denis-oswald.com, fasel@iihf.com, fff@mweb.com.na, fflbeau@sapo.pt, fidelmendoza1925@gmail.com, fih.president@planet.nl, fje@elrocom.com, francesco.riccibitti@itftennis.com, fwnyangweso@yahoo.com, gerhard.heiberg@ioc.olympic.org, g-heinze@freenet.de, gunilla.lindberg@sok.se, guydrut@hotmail.com, helsam@mweb.co.za, henryhsu1206@yahoo.com.tw, herzog.maurice@wanadoo.fr, igaya-wbc@ah.wakwak.com, info@ocasia.org, info@paralympic.org, ivandibos@hotmail.com, jas@gbsfinanzas.es, jimena@oem.com.mx, john.coates@olympics.com.au, kai.holm@dif.dk, kasper@fisski.ch, kristina.wilberg@rf.se, kullabor@telia.com, laminediak@sentoo.sn, lassanapalenfo@hotmail.com, lyco@codetil.net.do, manu@manueladicenta.it, max.kozin@russport.ru, meliton.sanchez@gmail.com, moon.daesung@gmail.com, n_hoevertsz@hotmail.com, nauticalbotero@une.net.co, nawal.el-moutawakel@cm.iaaf.org, nhs@dif.dk, nmoutawakel@hotmail.com, nock@iconnect.co.ke, office@palschmitt.com, ovr.sport@gmail.com, patrick@olympicsport.ie, pbbvelaz@teleline.es, pcolesioc@bigpond.com, peter.tallberg@kolumbus.fi, praza@packages.com.pk, presidencia@cob.org.br, president@iaaf.org, randhirpatiala@gmail.com, rania_elwani@link.net, rcarrion@bppr.com, reynaldo@oem.com.mx, richard.pound@ioc.olympic.org, rjc@veritasinvestmentsllc.com, rmitchell@connect.com.fj, s.rettondini@eurolympic.org, sak74@hotmail.com, saoc@saudiolympic.org.sa, shmagvan@yahoo.com, smirnov@roc.ru, s-okano@mbp.nifty.com, ssa@treetonline.com, stankovic@fiba.com, tamas.ajan@iwfnet.net, tay@taywilson.co.nz, tbkhoury@inco.com.lb, titirita27@hotmail.com, ttfok@netvigator.com, uerdener@hacettepe.edu.tr, walthertroegernok@web.de, wkalts@duwest.com, yasmine@cafonline.com, zhenliang.he@263.net
The IOC members above are:
Ashwini Kumar (India)
Nawal El Moutawakel (Morocco)
Anton Geesink (Netherlands)
Antun Vrdoljak (Croatia)
Arne Ljungvist (Sweden)
Austin L. Sealy (Barbados)
Patrick Baumann (Switzerland)
Beatrice Allen (Gambia)
Rebecca Scott (USA)
Sergey Bubka (Ukraine)
Carlos Arthur Nuzman (Brazil)
Ung Chang (Austria)
Zaiqing Yu (China)
Claudia Bokel (Germany)
Haya Bint Al Hussein (United Arab Emirates)
Craig Reedie (Great Britain)
Thomas Bach (Germany)
Hicham El Guerrouj (Morocco)
Denis Oswald (Switzerland)
Ren Fasel (Switzerland)
Frank Fredericks (Namibia)
Fernando F. Lima Bello (Portugal)
Fidel Mendoza Carrasquilla (Columbia)
Els van Breda Vriesman (Switzerland)
Francisco J. Elizalde (Phillipines)
Francesco Ricci Bitti (Great Britain)
Francis W. Nyanweso (Uganda)
Gerhard Heiberg (Norway)
Gunther Heinze (Germany)
Gunilla Lindberg (Sweden)
Guy Drut (France)
Sam Ramsamy (South Africa)
Henry Hsu (Taiwan)
Maurice Herzog (France)
Chiharu Igaya (Japan)
Ahmad Al-Fahad Al-Sabah (Kuwait)
Philip Craven MBE (Germany)
Ivan Dibos (Peru)
Juan Antonio Samaranch, Jr. (Spain) * He was the IOC’s leader in 1996 for the Atlanta Games and was not a fan of US efforts then or in Salt Lake
Mario Vazquez Rana (Mexico)
John Dowling Coates AC (Australia)
Kai Holm (Spain)
Gian-Franco Kasper (Switzerland)
Kristina Wilberg (?)
Gunnar Ericsson (Sweden)
Lamine Diack (Monaco)
Lassana Palenfo (Ivory Coast)
Roque Napoleon Munoz Pena (Dominican Republic)
Manuela Di Centa (Italy)
Shamil Tarpischev (Russia)
Meliton Sanchez Rivas (Panama)
Dae Sung Moon (Korea)
Nicole Hoevertsz (Aruba)
Andres Botero Phillipsbourne (Columbia)
Nawal El Moutawakel (Morocco)
Niels Holst-Sorensen (Denmark)
Kipchonge Keino (Kenya)
Pal Schmitt (Hungary)
Olegario Vazquez Rana (Mexico)
Patrick Joseph Hickey (Ireland)
Dona Pilar de Borbon (Spain)
Phillip Walter Coles A.M. (Australia)
Pernilla Wiberg (Monaco)
Peter Tallberg (Finland)
Syed Walid Ali (Pakistan)
Lamine Diack (Monaco)
Raja Randhir Singh (India)
D’Rania Elwani (Egypt)
Richard L. Carrion (Puerto Rico)
Reynaldo Gonzalez Lopez (Mexico)
Richard W. Pound (Canada)
Robert Ctvrtlik (USA)
Robin E. Mitchell (Fiji)
Mario Pescante (Italy)
Saku Koivu (Canada)
Prince Nawaf Faisal Fahd Abdulaziz (Saudi Arabia)
Shagdarjav Magvan (Mongolia)
Vitay Smirnov (Russia)
Shun-ichiro Okano (Japan)
Syed Shahid Ali (Pakistan)
Borislav Stankovic (Switzerland)
Tamas Ajan (Hungary)
Tay Wilson (New Zealand)
Toni Khoury (Lebanon)
Rita Subowo (Indonesia)
Timothy Tsun Ting Fok (China)
Ugur Erdener (Turkey)
Walther Troger (Germany)
Willi Kaltschmitt Lujan (Guatemala)
Issa Hayatou (Egypt)
Zhenliang He (China)
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Done! A heartfelt e-mail in support of RIO is on its way to all listed herein.
Thanks for the e-addys!
Praying for RIO!
Of all the names, nine e-mails were returned as undeliverable. One out-of-office-until-October reply received.
Not bad. Not bad at all.
Oops…forgot to count the returned e-mail that went into my junk folder. So, of all these names, only ten are unreachable.
C’mon folks. Copy and paste the e-addys and take a few minutes to drop the IOC a line. If Chicago gets the Games, it will hurt ALL OF US. And Utopia wins…again…via corruption and race baiting.
Garlic,
Can you make a note of which ones bounced back to you?
If more start bouncing back later, it will show that perhaps their email boxes are getting filled up with people writing to them about Rio.
It might be interesting to keep track of this.
*Host zg.hinet.hr not found. The following recipients did not receive this message:
*Host hroffice.ae not found.The following recipients did not receive this message:
*host codetil.net.do not found. The following recipients did not receive this message:
*Recipient: Reason: 5.1.1 unknown or illegal alias: nauticalbotero@une.net.co
*Recipient:
Reason: Benutzer nicht bekannt/User unknown
*Recipient:
Reason:Requested action not taken: mailbox unavailable
*Recipient:
Reason: 5.1.2 Recipient rejected.
Hmm…only one email address printed. I’ll give it another try.
My corrected comment, with the e-addresses only, is awaiting moderation, at 5:26 p.m., Pacific time.
antun.vrdoljak@zg.hinet.hr
corinne@hroffice.ae
lyco@codetil.net.do
akcol@de16.vsnl.net.in
nauticalbotero@une.net.co
walthertroegernok@web.de
titirita27@hotmail.com
fih.president@planet.nl
laminediak@orange.sn
kristina.wilberg@rf.se
ckwutpe@ms15.hinet.net
Done!!!
I posted this before, but I will post it again, I support you on this issue and your blog
http://sportales.com/sports/people-in-chicago-want-rio-to-get-2016-olympics/
I e-mailed it to all those on that list.
Does anyone here really think it is still open? I think if Obama is going it is already a done deal. There is no way “the One” would take the risk of going if he did not know already that the fix was in.
I guess you guys here know that Valarie Jarret just happens to own the option for the olympic grounds. It just shows more how corrupt the congress is for allowing this clear conflict of interest to go on. She is the one pushing for the games, going to beg for them, and working for the white house, and her company owns the options.
Chicago does’nt even have the games yet and the corruption has already begun!
I heard on the radio that all the leaders of the contending countries are going. Can’t say if that is accurate.
Also, everywhere I go on the internet I read comments from Chicago and Illinois people hoping, wishing and praying that they will NOT get the games.
If you all are craving a Robert Gibbs moment – and who doesn’t several times a day? – here goes. What a dolt.
http://www.breitbart.tv/wh-obamas-health-care-confidence-makes-copenhagen-trip-ok/
Well, one thing good the totally incompetent, corrupt bho did for us Americans–he got a lot more of us interested in politics and how this country is really powered by the very wealthy few.
Thanks for the education, Hillbuzz.
So true Tx – What an education!
Soooooo, Michelle’s “threatens” the IOC..LOL…per Ms.Sweet….
http://www.politicsdaily.com/2009/09/29/michelle-obama-will-take-no-prisoners-in-pushing-chicago-for-2/?icid=main|htmlws-main|dl1|link3|http%3A%2F%2Fwww.politicsdaily.com%2F2009%2F09%2F29%2Fmichelle-obama-will-take-no-prisoners-in-pushing-chicago-for-2%2F
HillBuzz:
I wrote them to lobby for Rio, these are the ones that bounced back:
titirita27@hotmail.com
walthertroegernok@web.de
lyco@codetil.net.do
nauticalbotero@une.net.co
corinne@hroffice.ae
antun.vrdoljak@zg.hinet.hr
akcol@de16.vsnl.net.in
laminediak@orange.sn
fih.president@planet.nl
Good stuff here:
http://www.fanhouse.com/news/main/rio-bandwagon-ioc-keeps-on-loving-citys/458763
Email sent and also received a few undeliverable, but the bulk went through…I truly hope this works!!!
FYI – cnn has a quick vote on homepage asking which city should host the Olympics…you can vote – it is neck and neck between chicago and rio…
Sent a lengthy note, complete with supporting links, evidencing all of the problems the Chi has.
Thanks for posting the e-mail addresses, HillBuzz. Now back to praying da rosary.
I think all of my e-mails were rejected
I just sent a short e-email without hyperlinks. The following addresses rejected it:
nauticalbotero@une.net.co
lyco@codetil.net.do
titirita27@hotmail.com
corinne@hroffice.ae
walthertroegernok@web.de
antun.vrdoljak@zg.hinet.hr
akcol@de16.vsnl.net.in
fih.president@planet.nl
laminediak@orange.sn
Did it! So far only 4 have come back.