Boston 2024, the heavy-handed movement to bring the 2024 Summer Olympics to Boston and the state, is a political windfall for Evan Falchuk.

Falchuk is the man who ran for governor in 2014 under the banner of the anti-political establishment United Independent Party. He lost, of course, as expected. But he was able to gather 3.3 percent of the statewide vote that won his party official status in Massachusetts.

Now he is putting his organization behind a movement to gather enough signatures to place a referendum question on the 2016 ballot that could bring the Olympics to a screeching halt — if any state funds are involved.

Even as the wording is being worked out — as are plans to gather 75,000 signatures to get the movement rolling — the thrust of the campaign is to prohibit the spending of any state funds on the Olympics.

While there are other organizations forming to oppose the Olympic bid, Falchuk’s party is the one group seeking to get the issue on the ballot as a binding referendum.

If the issue gets on the ballot, it most likely will pass. The overburdened, taxpaying public has grown weary of politicians who cannot even get the MBTA to operate properly, let alone promise to import cost-free Olympic Games.

Why bring up the MBTA? Because it is a classic case of the failure of the political leadership in Massachusetts. For example, Deval Patrick, who was hired by Boston 2024 to be its main lobbyist at the obscene salary of $7,500 a day — when he is working — was governor for two terms, and his main legacy is a transportation system that collapsed during the series of recent snowstorms.

Patrick had eight years to fix the system and all he did, like past governors, was kick the can down the road.

Not only that, the $300,000 CEO of Boston 2024 is Richard Davey. Davey was general manager of the firm that ran the MBTA’s commuter rail. Patrick made him head of the MBTA for a spell in 2010, and later promoted him to secretary of transportation, where he served from 2011 to 2014.

These two men, by not dealing with the nascent problems of the MBTA, are more responsible than anyone else for the collapse of the MBTA bus, subway and rail system during the series of historic snowstorms.

And now, because of the old-boy political network in Massachusetts, they are rewarded with high-paying jobs to bring to Massachusetts the 2024 Olympics at no cost to the taxpayer. Who in his right mind would believe that?

There is a new political party in Massachusetts. It is the Insider Party, made up of politically connected operatives from both parties, Democrats and Republicans. They, like Patrick and Davey, do not see gold medals but stacks of green instead, as in cash.

Look at Boston 2024’s payroll. Six of the top 10 salaried employees are paid more than $100,000 a year. Davey’s second in command, Erin Murphy, $215,000; Joe Rule, former Mayor Marty Walsh adviser, $175,000; Paige Scott Reed, former general counsel at the MBTA, $182,500; Nikko Mendoza, former Patrick director of operations, $120,000.

Political consultant Doug Rubin, head of Northwind Strategies and a former political strategist for Patrick and U.S. Sen. Elizabeth Warren, has a $15,000-a-month contract, as has Will Keyser, head of Keyser Public Strategies, who worked for Republican Charlie Baker in the 2014 election. GOP fundraiser Steve Roche has a $20,000-a-month contract. John Walsh, the former head of the Democratic State Committee, is getting $10,000 a month.

Boston 2024 has also hired two Statehouse lobbyists at $10,000 a month each. They are former state Sen. Jack Hart of South Boston and William Coyne Jr.

The money spent on Boston 2024’s bid to win the Summer Olympics is being raised privately. Its bid committee seeks to raise and spend $75 million to develop and promote its Olympic proposal.

All the members of the Insider Party promise that no taxpayer money will be spent on the Boston 2024 Olympics.

If history is any guide, these insiders will one day come hat in hand to the Legislature seeking a taxpayer bailout, like other connected political insiders have done in the past, especially under Patrick.

No, Joe Taxpayer is going to need more than a promise. Joe Taxpayer is going to need an ironclad assurance that no state funds will be used for this extravaganza.

Enter Evan Falchuk, Mr. Outsider, and his Outsider Party. Trust but verify. Where do I sign?

Peter Lucas’ political column appears Tuesday and Friday. Email him at luke1825@aol.com.