The mayor, back in Chicago and addressing the issue locally for the first time today, seemed to contradict his own statements in Switzerland, as well as the public remarks of Chicago 2016 chief Pat Ryan and International Olympics Committee President Jacques Rogge.Click on the link and see the various faces of Mayor Daley at a press conference talking about the Olympic bid.
“We agreed to sign a host city agreement with the provisions of the city, state and the insurance policy as added on to the host city agreement. That's what it's going to be and that is our protection for the taxpayers of the city of Chicago,” Daley said today with Lori Healey, Chicago 2016 president and the mayor’s former chief of staff, at his side.
But that version is markedly different from Daley’s remarks immediately after emerging from his June 17 meeting with the IOC, when he told the Tribune he had just agreed to sign the host city contract “as is.”
In a subsequent interview last week, the IOC's Rogge confirmed that Daley had agreed to sign the standard contract without modifications.
“The mayor said he will sign the host city contract. We have only one host city contract,” Rogge said at the time. “There is no amendment to the host city contract whatsoever from the IOC.”
Dispatches from Chicago's south side.
Friday, June 26, 2009
Daley sows confusion on his Olympics guarantee
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