Unlike the wimps here in Chicago, who take whatever beating the mayor offers and ask for more, the residents of Lake County don’t mess around. They don’t want Daley and his Olympics team paving over their forest preserve and they weren’t afraid to say so. They created an organization (Voters for Preservation) and a Web site, besieged the International Olympic Committee with letters and e-mail of opposition, and, perhaps most significant, put up candidates to run against Lake County Forest Preserve board members who had voted for the Equestrian Center.
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So here’s some more advice for Mayor Daley: Just forget about the Olympics. Spend the money on schools and parks and stuff that we really need. Folks will call you a hero. I’ll give you all the credit. If anyone asks, I’ll say it was your idea all along.
