Thursday, October 18, 2012
Monday, October 15, 2012
2008 City Council vote on term limits
There's a mayoral election next year, so for reference here's a link to a post with the roll call vote where the City Council decided to extend term limits so Mayor 1% could run for another term:
http://cityroom.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/10/23/council-to-debate-term-limits-change/
This is important. While term limits are probably bad policy, the people of New York City had voted for them by referendum, and when Mayor 1% forced another referendum to try to repeal the term limits, the people overwhelmingly voted for them again. So he bought off the City Council and got them to do it for him.
As far as I'm concerned, a "yes" vote on the term limit extension subverted the clearly expressed will of the people and permanently disqualifies those Council members from further public office. Christine Quinn, I'm looking at you.
http://cityroom.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/10/23/council-to-debate-term-limits-change/
This is important. While term limits are probably bad policy, the people of New York City had voted for them by referendum, and when Mayor 1% forced another referendum to try to repeal the term limits, the people overwhelmingly voted for them again. So he bought off the City Council and got them to do it for him.
As far as I'm concerned, a "yes" vote on the term limit extension subverted the clearly expressed will of the people and permanently disqualifies those Council members from further public office. Christine Quinn, I'm looking at you.
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