This is EXACTLY why we need term limits... Bloomberg is overiding the will of the people in NYC who voted TWICE FOR two term, term limits!!!

Bloomberg paid off the city council to bring to vote to allow him to run for a third term in spite of how NYers voted. The arrogance of DEMS knows NO BOUNDS!!! Are you all getting it????

Some wanted to ammend the bill to allow the voters to vote on a three term term limit. It was voted DOWN!!!!!!! Giving that self serving egomaniac Bloomberg to run again...I guess govt. can be bought to the highest bidder. Mayor Bloomberg is proof of that.

I hope people called their legislators. This is why we have such corrupt govt.!!!!! Bloomberg along with Quinn need to go. NYC doesn't need more corruption. Bloomberg is only following the lead of Guiliani, & that's why the city is doing so well. Bloomberg is no boy wonder.

Activist judges & arrogant corrupt politicians...that's what LIBs keep electing.



CITY COUNCIL COMMITTEE PASSES TERM-LIMIT BILL

ASSOCIATED PRESS
Michael BloombergLast updated: 11:17 am


Mayor Michael Bloomberg's political future was riding on the outcome of a highly anticipated vote in the City Council on Thursday as the body was set to take up his proposal to change city law so that he could have the chance at a third term.

Earlier Thursday, the bill cleared the governmental operations committee by a vote of 6-0 and will now go before the full 51-member body for a vote, despite a last-minute court challenge from opponents seeking to block the council from voting. The measure changes the law by giving officeholders the option of a third consecutive four-year term.

At last count, 23 members said they would vote against the proposal, 19 said they support it, and the rest had not publicly stated a position. But the fact that Council Speaker Christine Quinn put the vote on the agenda is typically a sign that she has the 26 votes she needs to pass a bill she supports.

Quinn said Wednesday that she is "very optimistic" the legislation will pass.

The term-limits proposal sparked a short but loud and contentious debate ever since the billionaire mayor announced his plans to seek re-election three weeks ago.

Opponents said the mayor was going over the heads of voters, who twice approved term limits in the 1990s. Many said they did not disagree with his goal to add a third term option, but found fault with the way he went about it.

Bloomberg, whose wealth is estimated at $20 billion, has argued that his business background as founder of the financial data firm Bloomberg LP makes him the best leader to help the city weather the turmoil on Wall Street.

The committee held two hearings last week on the fast-tracked legislation, with testimony lasting several hours. A poll this week found that registered voters overwhelmingly believe the public should have a say on the matter, and not the council.

On Wednesday, three council members who say they are undecided on Bloomberg's bill announced they will introduce an amendment at the Thursday meeting that essentially rewrites the legislation and seeks to have the term limits issue decided by voter referendum.

The measure would establish a charter review commission with the intention of holding a special election by next spring.

http://www.nypost.com/seven/10232008/news/regionalnews/city_council_passes_term_limit_bill_134929.htm

Ummm here's the thing...if the people of NYC like him and the job he is doing they will reelect him.

No one is installing him as mayor here. They are simply allowing people to vote for him if they want.

I understand why allowing people to freely elect who they will would upset some here...some people seem upset by anyone who doesn't tow their party line with blind obedience.

Hey Quikie we "libbies" will make u a trade.


We will give u Mayor Bloomberg if u give us Pat Robertson K?


Being Robertson is an egotistical menaical Terriorist, i think thats a fair trade, Dont u think?

it's a bad thing to allow the people to vote?

ummmm actually he is kinda considered to be. Before he was mayor he was a financial guru considered to be a peer of Buffet

Bloomburg is a well educated, finacial brain who is a complete SELF MADE MAN, Can anyone name 5 Repubs that fit in that Category? I sure cant

i believe in term limits, to prevent the kind of machine buildup which richard daley had going in chicago.

Ross Perot

Glen Taylor

John Menard Jr

Meg Whitman

Carl Linder

Ross Perot is an INDEPENDANT (Hmmm alot like Mayor Bloomburg)

Its funny u mention Carl Lindner,i prosume, He FUNDED TERRIORIST IN COLOMBIA, Self-Defense Forces of Colombia (known by the Spanish acronym AUC), which is described by George Washington University's National Security Archive as an "illegal right-wing anti-guerrilla group tied to many of the country's most notorious civilian massacres."

Hmmm, Carl Lindner is also one of JMs biggist fundraisers, so how can the repubs point fingers at Bill Ayers? Looks like they both have ties to "Terriorists"