Somewhere in the bowels of the Boston Globe, Shirley Leung is crying in her pom-poms. The State House News Service reports:
STATE HOUSE, BOSTON, JULY 27, 2015…..The US Olympic Committee and Boston 2024 are dropping Boston as the nation’s potential host city for the 2024 summer Olympics, ending a months-long debate over what Gov. Charlie Baker called a “ten-year drill” with major economic and fiscal ramifications.
Word of the decision began circulating mid-afternoon on Monday, after Boston Mayor Martin Walsh in the morning said he had declined to sign a host city agreement, and Baker confirmed the decision during a State House press conference just after 3 p.m.
“We would like to see the US properly represented in this whole thing,” Gov. Baker said during a televised press conference outside Senate President Rosenberg’s office with Rosenberg, House Speaker DeLeo and Lt. Gov. Polito. [Photo: Sam Doran/SHNS]
In a statement, the US Olympic Committee said Walsh’s comments on Monday were a consideration in its decision as well as the inability to convince a majority of people locally to support the Boston bid.
Boston demonstrates world-class municipal mental health.
Can’t we ever win without rubbbing it in? Where’s your sense of sportsmanship? Besides, Leung wrote a left-leaning piece about taxes a week or so ago that I agreed with wholeheartedly. Now she can write abour other things.
As long as she keeps writing whiny pro-Olympics pieces, as she did again today, I think she is fair game.
Hopefully next time she actually looks at the numbers instead of simply picking a side based on her ideology and/or business connections.
I really object to her tone.
She’s also a columnist, which puts her way down on my list of people with a lot to prove if she wants my respect.
It would be much less obnoxious if the Globe hadn’t put it on the front page.