SOURCE: Minnepaolis Star Tribune
As soon as the news that Chicago would not host the Olympics in 2016 was announced Friday, Rep. Melissa Hortman was back in action.
Hortman, DFL-Brooklyn Park, sent an e-mail Friday to Gov. Tim Pawlenty, asking that he form a task force to study a bid by the Twin Cities for the Olympics in 2020.
"I think we should look at it," said Hortman, a House assistant majority leader.
"It's the No. 1 marketing opportunity in the world."
Hortman has had her sights set on an Olympic bid by the Twin Cities since at least 2006, and was part of a group that met roughly for a year to study the possibility. But Hortman said the idea was shelved when Chicago's bid came to the forefront -- thinking that two major U.S. metropolitan areas competing for the same thing would be unwise politically.
Now, she said, it is time for the study group to reconvene. "We said we would get back together if Chicago wasn't picked," she said. "So, we will get back together."
MIKE KASZUBA
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