Los Angeles mayor Eric Garcetti considered the Olympic bid a political campaign. And of the 10 or so he has been a part of, this one was the toughest by far.
“Because you only have about 100 voters, and you have about four years of the process,” he said on the Dan Patrick Show on Friday. “It’s almost like a high school election. You have somebody over here saying, ‘I don’t like what you said to Susie at the dance, so I’m not going to vote for you.’ Or somebody else saying, ‘You’ve only had drinks with me 10 times, and Paris has done it 12 times.’
“You basically have to lay out why your city should add something to the Olympics. It’s not just what you’ll do for them, but they also want to know how the Olympics is going to change your city.”
Garcetti discussed more LA 2028-related topics in the full interview.
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