President Obama - Don't Support the 2016 Olympic Bid Petition: Signature List Feed http://gopetition.com/signatures/president-obama-dont-support-the-2016-olympic-bid.html Online petition signatures en-us Fri, 10 Apr 2026 06:07 UTC GoPetition RSS Feed Generator Copyright 2026 GoPetition ms Pat Dooley [Signature #265] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/6272693?utm_medium=rss An expensive endeavor - with the exceptional financial problems that we are facing in Chicago and the State of Illinois and with the over burdened tax payers - we will be going into debt for years for the want of a three week party? Do you really think that we are not going to have to pay for this and that this even makes any sense financially and environmentally?

]]> Thu, 1 Oct 2009 07:02:48 UTC 6272693 MS. catherine Bitting [Signature #264] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/6272558?utm_medium=rss Thu, 1 Oct 2009 06:00:56 UTC 6272558 Mr Christopher Reyes [Signature #263] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/6271853?utm_medium=rss Thu, 1 Oct 2009 01:41:30 UTC 6271853 Mrs. Kimberly Larimore [Signature #262] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/6271828?utm_medium=rss The corruption and true intent of personal financial gain off this Olympic delegation is so transparent, it would be an abomination for the Olympic Committee to award such an honored event to such a corrupt U.S. city.

]]> Thu, 1 Oct 2009 01:33:25 UTC 6271828 Mrs. Sandra Goodman [Signature #261] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/6271331?utm_medium=rss America is watching the young people in Chicago
being murdered by each other and we have no money or plan to help them....but a party is important. It's humiliating! I voted for Obama
because I thought...WE COULD CHANGE.

]]> Thu, 1 Oct 2009 10:48:12 UTC 6271331 MR Anonymous [Signature #260] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/6270952?utm_medium=rss STAY STRONG YOU GUYS....THIS EVENT MEANS TEMPORARY EMPLOYMENT, A LITTLE UP LIFT FOR SOME BUSINESSES BUT A LIFE-TIME OF TAXES AS NO CITY HAS EVER HOSTED THIS EVENT AND COME OUT AHEAD....TAX PAPYERS ALL OVER AMERICA WILL HELP PAY FOR THIS EVENT...IT IS TIME ALL AMERICANS TELL THEIR ELECTED OFFICIALS, AT FEDERAL AND STATE LEVEL....STOP ALL SPENDING, TAKE A PAY CUT OR GET OUT OF OFFICE....DRAW A LINE IN THE SAND.....GOOD LUCK CHICAGO...

]]> Thu, 1 Oct 2009 08:56:00 UTC 6270952 Julie Willis [Signature #259] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/6270879?utm_medium=rss Chicago can't afford the olympics.

]]> Thu, 1 Oct 2009 08:37:46 UTC 6270879 Nathan Stevens [Signature #258] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/6270782?utm_medium=rss Thu, 1 Oct 2009 08:02:42 UTC 6270782 Mr. Steven tychanski [Signature #257] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/6270672?utm_medium=rss Thu, 1 Oct 2009 07:35:45 UTC 6270672 Ms. Janice Harrison [Signature #256] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/6269052?utm_medium=rss Chicago is the last place where the olympics should be held!!!

]]> Wed, 30 Sep 2009 06:35:43 UTC 6269052 Mr David Oleski [Signature #255] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/6268308?utm_medium=rss How do you spell corruption? D A L E Y.

We can't afford the games and therefore, as I do at home when I can not afford something -- I do without it.

]]> Wed, 30 Sep 2009 03:26:21 UTC 6268308 mr norman mappa [Signature #254] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/6268259?utm_medium=rss With Obama's election America became complete and truely able to fulfill its promise to the world. Sadly, from a platform of change and hope, our President is now just another lackey of the Daley Administration. The nation and the world will see and remember how the President was a puppet for Richard Daley. Corruption and favortism will rule, common people will gain nothing, only the connected and the rich will have tickets, and protests, sit-ins, sadly, even rioting will ruin the games.

]]> Wed, 30 Sep 2009 03:18:23 UTC 6268259 Ms. Cecilia Benz [Signature #253] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/6268007?utm_medium=rss Dear President Obama,
Chicago has the highest taxes in the nation, it has a huge budget deficit, has the worse schools and the most violent crimes. To host games here is ludicrous. Besides, the CTA is already overwhelmed even when there is a Cub/Sox games. We don't want more taxes President Obama. We are hurting already!

]]> Wed, 30 Sep 2009 02:35:11 UTC 6268007 Mrs Cynthia Lamb [Signature #252] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/6267852?utm_medium=rss Wed, 30 Sep 2009 02:05:44 UTC 6267852 JANET MILLS [Signature #251] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/6267761?utm_medium=rss We can NOT afford this-Obama STOP wasting my tax dollars

]]> Wed, 30 Sep 2009 01:48:39 UTC 6267761 Ms Letty Macias [Signature #250] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/6267655?utm_medium=rss As an avid supporter I am greatly disappointed in your decision to attend the IOC decision in Copenhagen. Please change your mind. We elected you as the greatest leader in the world. Prove to us that we made the right decision!!

]]> Wed, 30 Sep 2009 01:30:11 UTC 6267655 Gehrig Peterson [Signature #249] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/6267518?utm_medium=rss Wed, 30 Sep 2009 01:09:25 UTC 6267518 Gene Spanos [Signature #248] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/6267407?utm_medium=rss Please stop the efforts - now!
Chicago is NOT fit to host these games.
Crime, poor train/bus operations, felons,
crimes against persons and property.
Daley will have the blood of those foreigners
on his hands.

]]> Wed, 30 Sep 2009 12:51:09 UTC 6267407 Paula Bui [Signature #247] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/6266316?utm_medium=rss Wed, 30 Sep 2009 10:16:26 UTC 6266316 mr Anonymous [Signature #246] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/6265525?utm_medium=rss Wed, 30 Sep 2009 07:49:23 UTC 6265525 Mr L R Lager [Signature #245] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/6264190?utm_medium=rss Tue, 29 Sep 2009 10:32:00 UTC 6264190 Piety Brandes [Signature #244] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/6263403?utm_medium=rss Mr. President ,

Please examine your job priorities. Our country is at war, and we have huge internal problems.

]]> Tue, 29 Sep 2009 07:17:18 UTC 6263403 Ms Wanda Day [Signature #243] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/6262892?utm_medium=rss It is from a spirit of sheer arrogance and greed that any American could think that Chicago - or any other US city for that matter - "deserves" an Olympic bid. If the OIC will demonstrate a modicum of desency and fairness, they will give the weight of their decision to grant the hosting of the 2016 Summer Games to a first-time-hosting nation. Arguably, a US city has only hosted an Olympic event 3 out of 5 times over the past 20 years. We're a nation of spoiled brats that want everything our way!

]]> Tue, 29 Sep 2009 05:44:45 UTC 6262892 Krista Ortgiesen [Signature #242] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/6262441?utm_medium=rss Chicago has better things to spend its money on. No to the Olympic mess!

]]> Tue, 29 Sep 2009 03:39:50 UTC 6262441 Mr. Emanuel Vinson [Signature #241] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/6262288?utm_medium=rss Please. The kind of environment that lead to the death of Derrion Albert will be exacerbated and replicated if this goes through. People, children are dying here.

]]> Tue, 29 Sep 2009 02:59:10 UTC 6262288 Mr. Jim Cummings [Signature #240] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/6261999?utm_medium=rss Tue, 29 Sep 2009 01:44:40 UTC 6261999 Ms Elenita Hinds [Signature #239] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/6261877?utm_medium=rss Tue, 29 Sep 2009 01:10:14 UTC 6261877 Mr Donald Sebek [Signature #238] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/6261596?utm_medium=rss The people of Chicago do not want the games!

]]> Tue, 29 Sep 2009 12:06:29 UTC 6261596 Dr. Robert Saqueton [Signature #237] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/6261390?utm_medium=rss Tue, 29 Sep 2009 11:16:04 UTC 6261390 mrs Anonymous [Signature #236] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/6261053?utm_medium=rss will be a financial disaster!!!

]]> Tue, 29 Sep 2009 09:57:21 UTC 6261053 Merrill Urbane [Signature #235] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/6260698?utm_medium=rss Tue, 29 Sep 2009 08:47:30 UTC 6260698 Nayeem Aslam [Signature #234] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/6259833?utm_medium=rss Tue, 29 Sep 2009 05:06:28 UTC 6259833 Mr Michael Meltzer [Signature #233] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/6259189?utm_medium=rss No, no no , hell no!!!

]]> Tue, 29 Sep 2009 01:28:15 UTC 6259189 Christopher Pezl [Signature #232] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/6259120?utm_medium=rss The people of Chicago do not want these games. Every single person I know opposes the Olympic Bid, do not force your will upon the people of this city!

]]> Tue, 29 Sep 2009 12:47:16 UTC 6259120 Mr Alexander Schwarz [Signature #231] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/6259097?utm_medium=rss I am very opposed to Obama wasting time on this silly event, when there is important health-care legislation that has yet to be passed! People's lives are depending on health care reform, and yet our President is lobbying for the Chicago Machine. I am a strong supporter of Obama but this decision to attend the Copenhagen event is ridiculous.

]]> Tue, 29 Sep 2009 12:26:58 UTC 6259097 Ms Anonymous [Signature #230] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/6258926?utm_medium=rss The federal government is broke, the state of Illinois is $12 billion in the red and our city is broke ($290 million in the red) – we can’t afford to spend billions on a 3-week party!

]]> Mon, 28 Sep 2009 11:12:15 UTC 6258926 Ms Shirley Sung [Signature #229] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/6258802?utm_medium=rss Mon, 28 Sep 2009 10:25:48 UTC 6258802 Mrs Becky sublette [Signature #228] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/6258775?utm_medium=rss Mon, 28 Sep 2009 10:13:23 UTC 6258775 mr jay harder [Signature #227] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/6258772?utm_medium=rss Mon, 28 Sep 2009 10:12:33 UTC 6258772 Ms. Molly McMahon [Signature #226] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/6257541?utm_medium=rss Please spend the Olympic money on something really worthwhile like education, healthcare, and public transportation. We Chicagoans need that more!!! We do not need higher taxes for the Olympics! Please! Don't tell me for a second you believe Daley!!!! We need real solutions for real problems!!! If we wind up with higher taxes it must come be for education, healthcare and improved transportation! Come on! You wouldn't and didn't even send your daughters to CPS!!!!

]]> Mon, 28 Sep 2009 05:31:51 UTC 6257541 mr Eric Lindberg [Signature #225] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/6256981?utm_medium=rss Mon, 28 Sep 2009 04:02:42 UTC 6256981 Brittany Barkus [Signature #224] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/6256287?utm_medium=rss Mon, 28 Sep 2009 02:04:17 UTC 6256287 Ms Anonymous [Signature #223] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/6256152?utm_medium=rss Mon, 28 Sep 2009 01:41:58 UTC 6256152 Mr Anonymous [Signature #222] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/6256129?utm_medium=rss Mon, 28 Sep 2009 01:38:20 UTC 6256129 Ms. Elizabeth Lee [Signature #221] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/6255586?utm_medium=rss Will do no good for the chicago area and you know it. Hyde Park will be inundated and more and more of the poor will be fored to relocated out of the area. Where will they go? There is no affordable housing in Chicago.

]]> Mon, 28 Sep 2009 12:05:25 UTC 6255586 Mr David Ward [Signature #220] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/6255580?utm_medium=rss Mr. President, Please concentrate on the middle east and your health care reforms. They are much more important issues. Please do not be amongst those trying to ram the olympics down the throats of Chicagoans who have already said they do not want it.

]]> Mon, 28 Sep 2009 12:03:50 UTC 6255580 Stephanie Saia [Signature #219] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/6255479?utm_medium=rss Mon, 28 Sep 2009 11:45:42 UTC 6255479 Mrs. Anonymous [Signature #218] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/6254643?utm_medium=rss Chicago can not afford these games in their city and the country can not afford it either,.

]]> Mon, 28 Sep 2009 09:00:12 UTC 6254643 MS Veronica Sanchez [Signature #217] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/6252658?utm_medium=rss I do not support the bid for Chicago, IL 2016 games.

]]> Sun, 27 Sep 2009 08:20:20 UTC 6252658 Mr Stephen McNamara [Signature #216] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/6250922?utm_medium=rss To me, the mayor is acting like an ordinary person desperately in debt over his head. He wants to go buy a new car just to make himself feel better even though he knows he can't afford it. And what could be worse than forcing other people to pay for that selfish present.

]]> Sun, 27 Sep 2009 10:48:02 UTC 6250922 Ms Bonnie Fritz [Signature #215] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/6247334?utm_medium=rss our children are dying on the streets guns, knives and now beatings - and Mayor Daley thinks we need the Olympics here? It's nice to have fun, but let's take care of business first.

]]> Fri, 25 Sep 2009 11:06:59 UTC 6247334 Marsha Bukala [Signature #214] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/6240254?utm_medium=rss Wed, 23 Sep 2009 06:54:51 UTC 6240254 Mrs. Patricia Smith [Signature #213] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/6234183?utm_medium=rss Please don't destroy our neighborhood and historical Washington Park. We cannot afford this event and it will do nothing but give even less money for the infrastructures we sorely need.

]]> Tue, 22 Sep 2009 01:47:17 UTC 6234183 Mr. Anonymous [Signature #212] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/6227526?utm_medium=rss UNION AND CHICAGO BUSINESS CORRUPTION DOESN'T NEED ANY MORE FUEL ALL THIS WILL DO IS RAISE TAXES, CREATE UNFAIR BUSINESS PRACTICES, AND ALLOW CORRUPT CHICAGO BUSINESS'S TO BENEFIT AT THE OF HARD WORKING MIDDLE CLASS.

]]> Mon, 21 Sep 2009 12:02:00 UTC 6227526 Mr. Edward Stengel [Signature #211] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/6224481?utm_medium=rss Dear Mr. President Obama,
I respectfully ask you not to support the
2016 Olympics for Chicago. The best thing
that happened to you was to get out of
Chicago and far away from its corrupting
influences. I'm sure you know, even though
you have a certain loyalty to Cook County
democrats, that Mayor Daley and his henchmen sympolize everything that is wrong with politics, from corruption to
kickbacks, and a complete disregard for
the best interests of all the citizens of
Chicago.

]]> Sun, 20 Sep 2009 10:27:01 UTC 6224481 Ms Susan Schmauderer-Briggs [Signature #210] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/6221895?utm_medium=rss Sun, 20 Sep 2009 10:00:45 UTC 6221895 Glenn Good [Signature #209] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/6217400?utm_medium=rss Stop Daley's looting of the citizens of Chicago.

]]> Sat, 19 Sep 2009 04:25:21 UTC 6217400 Kenneth Barrios [Signature #208] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/6213940?utm_medium=rss The olympics will be a drain on tax dollars, it will shove around the poor, and it will increase the presence of cops in our communities. NO GAMES. We should use that money to fix schools, day care centers, and elderly homes instead.

]]> Fri, 18 Sep 2009 03:26:14 UTC 6213940 Ms Anonymous [Signature #207] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/6213793?utm_medium=rss Fri, 18 Sep 2009 02:56:07 UTC 6213793 ms karen prewitt clarke [Signature #206] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/6208763?utm_medium=rss My brother lives in chicago, i used to, and visit there often. He keeps a boat in the marina there, in a park...one nice thing about Chicago is accessibility and lots of nice parks.......DON'T SPOIL IT! WHAT IS THE POINT OF HAVING THE OLYMPICS HERE?!

]]> Thu, 17 Sep 2009 12:59:55 UTC 6208763 My Bill Johnson [Signature #205] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/6208135?utm_medium=rss ANYWHERE BUT HERE....WE CAN'T EVEN FIX THE POTHOLES

]]> Thu, 17 Sep 2009 09:24:08 UTC 6208135 Ms Ellen Crosby [Signature #204] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/6206233?utm_medium=rss There is not enough money to pay for Daley's inflated ego, or these exhorbitantly expensive "games".

]]> Wed, 16 Sep 2009 08:19:22 UTC 6206233 Anonymous [Signature #203] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/6205897?utm_medium=rss Not everyone in Chicago area supports this bid. As a taxpayer in Cook county, I have absolutely NO confidence that the expenses of this event will not fall on our already overburdened shoulders. Yes, this is a beautiful city and I am proud to show it to the world, but it is also full of corruption and that is what we need to focus on bringing under control. An event of this size will only allow further opportunities for favoritism and corruption and spending for short-term gains.

]]> Wed, 16 Sep 2009 06:22:56 UTC 6205897 Matthew Champa [Signature #202] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/6204275?utm_medium=rss Wed, 16 Sep 2009 11:45:37 UTC 6204275 Bob Houk [Signature #201] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/6201510?utm_medium=rss Tue, 15 Sep 2009 11:32:52 UTC 6201510 Colleen Klus-Salisbury [Signature #200] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/6194476?utm_medium=rss Mon, 14 Sep 2009 03:07:21 UTC 6194476 Ms Kathy Kelley [Signature #199] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/6191064?utm_medium=rss Sun, 13 Sep 2009 10:15:48 UTC 6191064 Valarie Lopez [Signature #198] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/6190203?utm_medium=rss Sun, 13 Sep 2009 05:28:33 UTC 6190203 Miss pancake pancakes [Signature #197] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/6189170?utm_medium=rss Sun, 13 Sep 2009 11:24:58 UTC 6189170 Ms. T'Keyah Crystal Keymah [Signature #196] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/6188993?utm_medium=rss Unless the federal government is going to pay for all costs associated with bringing the olympics to Chicago, it would be a cruel burden to place on a city that can not combat crime, provide decent housing or education, or improve its infrastructure. The 'excitement' of the olympics should not come to Chicago at the expense of the people who are suffering there now. If you want to help Chicago, provide federal funds for housing, job training, schools, teachers, athletic and art programs, etc.

]]> Sun, 13 Sep 2009 10:06:20 UTC 6188993 Dr. Marlene Sefton [Signature #195] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/6187050?utm_medium=rss Sat, 12 Sep 2009 05:30:28 UTC 6187050 Mr. Craig Teichen [Signature #194] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/6186465?utm_medium=rss Sat, 12 Sep 2009 02:42:55 UTC 6186465 Ms Sue Rucker [Signature #193] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/6186374?utm_medium=rss Those who work as volunteers to maintain bird habitats and other nature perserves will see years of effort bulldozed away. I do not believe the gamies is a good way to serve the people of the world or the city of Chicago, and certainly not the birds that need the land when migrating twice a year.
If my wildest dreams were to come true, we would dedicate these resources to education, to poor people, to the CTA. All these need the money that is so quickly being promised to the Olymics.

]]> Sat, 12 Sep 2009 02:00:49 UTC 6186374 pamela shaw [Signature #192] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/6183030?utm_medium=rss plz no olympics--this is a beautiful , vibrant city. however, we need more open spaces--so , don't destroy what we have. any jobs will be temporary any debt incurred will be long term. we have so many problems--schools, transportation and rising taxes--fix these first

]]> Fri, 11 Sep 2009 03:17:57 UTC 6183030 Mr Marcus Devin [Signature #191] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/6182049?utm_medium=rss No major project has ever been within budget or 'paid for itself' as we have been promised. The city/state just cut major social programs this summer and we are still in financial trouble. The 'hope' that the taxes and tourism rev is just a pipe dream that will not come true.

]]> Fri, 11 Sep 2009 11:31:04 UTC 6182049 Mr. Anonymous [Signature #190] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/6177222?utm_medium=rss I concur with No Games Chicago that we cannot afford this huge burden on the taxpayers. I applaud your decision not to attend the conference in Copenhagen, October 2nd.

]]> Thu, 10 Sep 2009 11:44:44 UTC 6177222 Ms Patricia Smith [Signature #189] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/6175232?utm_medium=rss Dear Mr. President: You especially know how the Games would destroy our unique Washington Park as well as other public spaces and you know as well how taxed Chicago citizens will be to pay for this. The only people to benefit will be Daley cronies. We cannot afford this and do not need this. Besides, as a neighbor of yours, there will be no parking here just as there is little in Washington Park.
Dyett School will be razed and there is no up side. Please don't champion this for Chicago's sake!

]]> Wed, 9 Sep 2009 09:30:53 UTC 6175232 MS THELMA PERKINS [Signature #188] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/6162707?utm_medium=rss UNEMPLOYMENT, GENTRIFICATION, FAILING EDUCATIONAL SYSTEM, HOMELESSNESS, INCREASED JAIL POPULATION.......WE VOTED FOR HOPE, AND CHANGE, NOT MORE OF THE SAME

]]> Sun, 6 Sep 2009 11:32:46 UTC 6162707 Ms. Carolyn Bolger [Signature #187] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/6161348?utm_medium=rss Most Chicago and Illinois residents do not want the Olympics unless they are connected or have something to gain such as property.

]]> Sun, 6 Sep 2009 03:12:48 UTC 6161348 Tricia Daniels [Signature #186] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/6160909?utm_medium=rss Sun, 6 Sep 2009 01:04:16 UTC 6160909 Ms. Anonymous [Signature #185] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/6156472?utm_medium=rss Sat, 5 Sep 2009 09:51:52 UTC 6156472 Sara Drake [Signature #184] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/6153885?utm_medium=rss Fri, 4 Sep 2009 02:22:29 UTC 6153885 Kathy Kelly [Signature #183] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/6149831?utm_medium=rss Thu, 3 Sep 2009 08:31:18 UTC 6149831 mr peter ciura [Signature #182] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/6148081?utm_medium=rss Thu, 3 Sep 2009 12:32:43 UTC 6148081 Mrs. Carrie Echols [Signature #181] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/6140656?utm_medium=rss No 2016 Olympics for Chicago! What is the mayor trying to do with bidding for the Olympics when he can't even pay his employees?!

]]> Tue, 1 Sep 2009 10:27:22 UTC 6140656 Mark Kristoff [Signature #180] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/6138777?utm_medium=rss Dear Mr. President:

Nearly every person I have spoken with here in Northeastern Illinois, including myself, does not want a Chicago olympics for the reason stated in this petition.

Please do not distract yourself with this foolish and pointless ambition.

]]> Tue, 1 Sep 2009 01:16:05 UTC 6138777 Mr. Anonymous [Signature #179] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/6126752?utm_medium=rss President Obama, I voted for you because of the leadership you showed in Chicago. Your book, The Audacity of Hope, shows a man who is principled and helps the common man. I implore you not to support the Olympics in Chicago. Do not support the corrupt "business as usual" in Chicago. We are being kept in the dark on the bid; 2016 reps keep fumbling over each other spreading lies. If you support the Chicago bid for 2016, you are supporting corruption in Chicago that is hurting the poor and unprote

]]> Sat, 29 Aug 2009 08:02:36 UTC 6126752 Ms. Sonja Mason [Signature #178] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/6112694?utm_medium=rss Hi, my name is Sonja Mason,
And the reason why Mayor Daley wants the Olympics is to hide the fact that he's a racist, but everybody knows he's a racist. He permitted and lets corruption happen all across the Chicago area, and he's done that for years. Me and my dad fought him and won in 1988-1989, of all his corruption and shut his Dickens home down that brutalized the kids there. What about John Burge where's the justice? NO OLYMPICS IN CHICAGO!

]]> Tue, 25 Aug 2009 06:36:25 UTC 6112694 Mr. Anonymous [Signature #177] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/6112643?utm_medium=rss Mayor Daley,
is too racist And too corrupt to have an Olympics in Chicago.

]]> Tue, 25 Aug 2009 06:24:54 UTC 6112643 Ms. Anonymous [Signature #176] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/6104917?utm_medium=rss Mon, 24 Aug 2009 12:52:31 UTC 6104917 Mr. William Kudlaty [Signature #175] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/6104849?utm_medium=rss The Chicago bid for the games appropriates the parks- taking away opportunity for recreation.

]]> Mon, 24 Aug 2009 12:43:00 UTC 6104849 Ms Doreen Peters [Signature #174] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/6091694?utm_medium=rss Fri, 21 Aug 2009 11:36:30 UTC 6091694 Mr Anonymous [Signature #173] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/6084701?utm_medium=rss Thu, 20 Aug 2009 10:51:17 UTC 6084701 Greg Jones [Signature #172] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/6072962?utm_medium=rss Mr. President, You had my vote for you, so can you vote for us, and say no to this Game here in Chicago; Our city goverment don't care for the safety for the game being held here; They have only proved that they don't care much about their own Police here, by the way they are treating them. First let's take care our police, then we can take care of the Game. Mr. President do you agree, or do you also agreed that the police don't matter either.

]]> Tue, 18 Aug 2009 07:06:51 UTC 6072962 ms melanie fialkowski [Signature #171] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/6072144?utm_medium=rss Tue, 18 Aug 2009 04:02:14 UTC 6072144 Mr. Anonymous [Signature #170] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/6068370?utm_medium=rss Mon, 17 Aug 2009 10:55:08 UTC 6068370 Ms. Anne Haggerty [Signature #169] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/6068206?utm_medium=rss Mon, 17 Aug 2009 10:11:17 UTC 6068206 Mr Eric Lindberg [Signature #168] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/6049651?utm_medium=rss chicago already cant pay its bills,it will just be another way for Daley and the alderman to line their own pockets with our money.

]]> Thu, 13 Aug 2009 03:31:52 UTC 6049651 Nora Dunn [Signature #167] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/6049004?utm_medium=rss The land that will be used is parkland, and what is built on what little we have will never be torn down. This will be a land grab, it will cost a heavily taxed populace who are on shaky ground and the money could be used to help us in long term employment and education. Glamourous for Mayor Daly, and a few weeks of glamour for the city is not worth over 500 million dollars. We won't earn it back.

]]> Thu, 13 Aug 2009 12:38:41 UTC 6049004 Cheryl Raff [Signature #166] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/6039100?utm_medium=rss As a retired City employee, I am appalled that MY PENSION MONEY is going to help pay for this fiasco...and that it is part of a scheme to line the pockets of the Mayor's relatives. Are you going to raise Social Security so I have something to live on when my pension goes bust??!!

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