Daley and the ‘Airport Albatross’

January 30, 2009 by CookReformer
Filed under: Mayor Daley, Spending, Taxes

Rick Moran at Pajamas Media reports on Mayor Daley’s O’Hare boondoggle - $15 billion (we think the number is more like $20 billion) to build two runways that arguably are not needed in the midst of an economic crisis.

And, of course, if it’s anything like a normal Chicago/Cook County project, it will run overbudget and over deadline (remember Millenium Park and the new CTA mega-terminal in the Loop?)

Here’s an excerpt from Moran’s report:

Now that Governor Rod Blagojevich is, politically speaking, pushing up daises, attention in the Land of Lincoln is going to be drawn to efforts by Chicago’s Mayor Daley to latch on to a portion of the coming “stimulus package” in order to fund his dream of expanding O’Hare Airport.

Never mind that no one wants to pay for it — including the city, the county, the state, the airlines, the taxpayers, or, until now, the federal government.

We hear ya’ Rick. Let’s hope this “albatross” can be stopped, and we urge all local elected officials to make their voices heard with their state officials, county officials, and members of Congress.