The year is 2002, and the world is fixated on Utah. LDS missionaries star in a Saturday Night Live skit and fry sauce adorns collectible Olympics pins. By and large, the credit for a gleaming Olympic games goes to Mitt Romney, the quaffed future candidate for president.
And he deserves it. Mitt arrives the moment Utah’s Olympic reputation nosedives. The previous CEO and other leaders have marred the games’ reputation with bribery and inefficiency. Where the previous CEO dug a $379 million hole in organizing committee coffers, Mitt wrangles an approximate $50 million surplus.