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Why Boston Should Say No To The 2024 Olympics (Original Post)
matthewf
Feb 2015
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MannyGoldstein
(34,589 posts)1. We will, with gusto.
Damn! You bet!
valerief
(53,235 posts)2. It's bad enough we have a Republican friggin' governor. Why ruin the state with the damn Olympics?nt
Teutonic Samuel
(87 posts)3. The People of Boston Don't Want It
And they should make that point loud and clear to the IOC Exploratory Croup when it visits.
olddots
(10,237 posts)4. why not hold them in Washington D.C ?
Yeah that would be wicked smart .
Now that the Olympics are pretty much a long commercial we should maybe have them held "in camera "
davidpdx
(22,000 posts)5. Well at least we'd be able to have the presidential election continue
while the Olympics are going on. That's all I see the Olympics as is a disruption to the campaign which I find 10 billion times more interesting.
Crowman1979
(3,844 posts)6. Here's what the IOC demands, according to this "Last Week Tonight" clip.