Boston Magazine reports Hizzona signed that initial Olympic binder without actually reading the "bid book" it went with.
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hmm
By Mikey2323
Tue, 06/09/2015 - 4:20pm
That's the least surprising thing I've heard all week
2 bid documents+false claims+failed due dilligence=untrustworthy
By Anonymous
Tue, 06/09/2015 - 4:39pm
I think Marty Walsh knew every detail of the bid and I think he knew Boston 2024 was going to release a redacted copy to conceal some of the elements of the proposal that the public would likely oppose. Walsh signed it to make Boston an official partner, and he traveled with four principles of Boston 2024 to present the bid to the USOC.
Since Boston 2024 was going to release a redacted copy Walsh and Boston 2024 had to use the same talking points about the bid, talking points that fit the redacted bid, (not the actual bid) which includes the phrase 'no public money.'
Now that the actual bid was produced by a FOIA from UMass Donahue Institute and people can read for themselves that the 'no public money' claim is false and worse, a deception, Walsh has to cover his ass and claim he didn't know about the provisions for public money so he says 'I didn't read it, counsel did.'
This too is a problem because it says the Walsh administration was incapable of doing the due diligence on a big deal with large cost ramifications. Just wait, wait until everyone else figures that out.
Not the real bid, only a "concept bid"...
By Michael Kerpan
Tue, 06/09/2015 - 4:47pm
... I think the Mayor said. so I guess that makes it all okay to deceive the public -- the real bid will be clean as a whistle, he promises. (Heard him on the Jim and Margery show and was appalled at his obtuseness and/or duplicity).
"appalled at his obtuseness and/or duplicity"
By Brian Riccio
Tue, 06/09/2015 - 5:16pm
You left out abject stupidity.
And no graphs! The Mayah needs more pictures and why the fuck would he actually read something that affects his constituents directly? That's what he's got junior bagmen for!
Obtuseness was my....
By Michael Kerpan
Tue, 06/09/2015 - 7:44pm
... "euphemism". ;-}
Dirty Pool on the part of the Walsh Admn, imho.
By mplo
Wed, 06/10/2015 - 9:57am
That was pretty dirty of Marty Walsh to sign the obviously pro-Boston Olympics thing without really reading it thoroughly.
Harvard technocrats do read.
By anon
Tue, 06/09/2015 - 10:03pm
Now that city hall filled with grads from that school across the river on the team, we have lots of Powerpoint and counting of app downloads. Darn, couldn't one of them read the Olympic Boston bid and done a ppt for the Mayor?
One of 'em favors Hamburg.
By anon
Thu, 06/11/2015 - 1:50pm
Bloomberg has an item about the Hamburg bid that should be a relief sigh for all who dread and loath this travesty here.
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2015-06-10/...
Warm up quote.
Money quote.
I'd like to know
By anon
Tue, 06/09/2015 - 4:20pm
Was Marty just like fuck yeah Olympics as soon as it was brought to his attention or did he really ponder if this was a good use of the city's coffers and planning? I'd like to think he genuinely thought about it and decided this was a great way to galvanize some city improvements, but really I think he just pictured himself cruising around the Games like a boss in his all access mayor's pass and signed on the dotted line.
Monorail all the way.
I Think He Just Did As He Was Told
By Elmer
Tue, 06/09/2015 - 4:24pm
Boom! Thank you!
By Brian Riccio
Tue, 06/09/2015 - 5:21pm
Marty Walsh doesn't take a shit without permission. That sums up his entire political career.
Here's a quiz to identify his 2024 bosses.
By anon
Wed, 06/10/2015 - 4:20am
It's another well polished gem from BMG regular, "Hester Prynne".
http://hesterprynne.net/2015/06/06/get-to-know-you...
I don't think the Mayor thinks
By whyaduck
Tue, 06/09/2015 - 4:26pm
too much.
But the Olympics didn't have a song
By to be named later
Tue, 06/09/2015 - 4:30pm
[youtube]xhpO_WcR_jE[/youtube]
Phil Hartman was such a
By Joe Blow
Tue, 06/09/2015 - 7:41pm
Phil Hartman was such a treasure of a man.
Give Conan O'Brien props for
By MC Slim JB
Tue, 06/09/2015 - 11:13pm
writing that episode, too.
Wishing and hoping writ large.
By anon
Tue, 06/09/2015 - 4:24pm
More of that strange breezy slovenliness.
Fish said it's good. What more do we need?.
Corruption with a capital "C" and
By whyaduck
Wed, 06/10/2015 - 8:38am
that rhymes with "T" and that stands for one-termer (hopefully). Maybe him and his bully cousin can go into business together.
He couldn't read it because it was filed at BPL.
By Shawmut_Ave
Tue, 06/09/2015 - 4:28pm
He couldn't read it because it was filed at BPL.
gonna need some aloe
By Malcolm Tucker
Wed, 06/10/2015 - 9:51am
YA BURNT, MARTY! YA BURNT!!!!!
"It has many, many pages"
By bosguy22
Tue, 06/09/2015 - 4:33pm
He couldn't sound any dumber if he tried.
If there were any way to
By MattyC
Tue, 06/09/2015 - 4:38pm
If there were any way to misunderestimate the man, this would be it. ;)
It was filed right next to....
By Stevil
Wed, 06/10/2015 - 12:20pm
Binders and binders full of women - or some such.
or next to the missing BPL artwork
By Shawmut_Ave
Tue, 06/09/2015 - 5:09pm
or just filed next to the missing BPL artwork
Hardy har har
By marker
Tue, 06/09/2015 - 8:17pm
You've now tried this joke on Twitter and twice in this thread. It's not funny. Give up.
Needs a visual
By anon
Tue, 06/09/2015 - 6:03pm
[img]https://c.o0bg.com/rf/image_960w/Boston/2011-2020/...
Reminds me of that amazing scene in "Dick Tracy"
By Brian Riccio
Tue, 06/09/2015 - 8:54pm
when Al Pacino says:
"Wait a minute. Wait. I'm having a thought. Oh, yes. Oh, yes. I'm gonna have a thought. It's coming. It's gone."
Sounds like a
By whyaduck
Wed, 06/10/2015 - 8:39am
George W. Bushism.
What would be really entertaining
By anon
Tue, 06/09/2015 - 8:42pm
is if the business-as-usual Boston corruption were to smack into a roadblock this time. Maybe it turns out someone accidentally perjures themselves, and they're prosecuted for it. Or some ordinary lawyer gets put in an awkward backroom deals situation, and isn't willing to risk being disbarred.
The Menino administration got a pass on everything, but I don't know that all the people and institutions that bring the money into the town today want to risk an entrenched godfather.
The optimist in me hopes for a new era of Boston statesmanship. The weary cynic in me would prefer that this new era is ushered in by a spectacular takedown.
What
By roadman
Wed, 06/10/2015 - 8:30am
am I signing Radar?
Wow. From the wayback
By MattyC
Wed, 06/10/2015 - 9:36am
Wow. From the wayback machine.
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