Azi is reporting that the City Council will vote on Mayor Bloomberg's bill to circumvent the wishes of NYC voters and extend term limits legislatively on Thursday.
The City Council will vote on changing the city's term-limits law this Thursday, according to a Council spokesperson.
I guess this "gotta vote now" timetable shouldn't really surprise anyone. The Mayor and the Council Speaker know that the more people learn about the proposal and how it will be decided, the more they dislike both. A week ago, 75% of New Yorkers, "irrespective of demographics, borough, party or even opinion of the mayor or term limits in general" believed that this decision was for the voters, not for the Mayor and the Council. Today, 89% of NYC voters believe that VOTERS should decide this question, not the Mayor or his billions or the City Council.
The announcement also would seem to mean that the Mayor and Speaker Quinn believe they have the votes to pass this abomination, though only 16 17 members have had the guts to actually proclaim their support for it. That means that at least 10 Councilcritters are secretly for extending their own terms, but are too cowardly to publicly say so.
The Mayor and the pro "screw the voters" members of the Council know that the longer they wait, the more people learn about this affront to democracy, the more people actually learn what it is that they are about to do in their names, but without their input - the less they like it. The plan is to now rush this through the council and to the Mayor's desk post haste and hope that the voters either forget about the whole thing or are too stupid realize that anything has changed when they go to the polls next November.
Yeah, you really should be insulted.
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