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Favoring a Simple Way to Get to Another Term
Category: Term Limits · State: New York · Source: New York Times
So Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg has decided he wants a third term. Now what? The simplest and most direct route — and the strategy that Bloomberg advisers say he is most likely to pursue — is to have the City Council revise the term limits law, at least temporarily. The law was adopted in a 1993 voter referendum that amended the City Charter. To amend the law without going through a special election, Council members will need to introduce a bill, perhaps at one of their next two meetings, scheduled for Oct. 7 and 23. The bill would most likely be assigned to the government operations committee, whose chairman, Councilman Simcha Felder, Democrat of Brooklyn, is a close ally of Mayor Bloomberg’s. Under the law, the committee must hold at least one hearing on the bill, giving the public a chance to weigh in. Then the bill would go for a full vote of the Council. It requires a simple majority, 26 of the 51 members.
Opinion: The wrong way to reform term limits
Category: Term Limits · State: California · Source: Los Angeles Times
California's elected officials have failed this year to take care of any pressing state problems -- except their own. No healthcare reform. No prison reform. No solution to the multibillion-dollar budget deficit.
Backers of term-limits measure tell opposition to reveal who's behind $1.5 million contribution
Category: Term Limits · State: California · Source: Sacremento Bee
Leaders of a campaign to alter California's term limits demanded Wednesday that their opposition disclose the names of individuals tied to a $1.5 million donation by U.S. Term Limits.
Dan Walters: Term limit modifier takes a hit
Category: Term Limits · State: California · Source: Sacremento Bee
Those who want California voters to approve Proposition 93 - a measure on the Feb. 5 ballot to alter legislative term limits - are citing a new analysis of the measure by the Center for Governmental Studies, a nonpartisan political think tank, which more or less endorses its passage.
Write-in ballots determine Gilbertville council seat; deadlocked ballot measure fails.
Category: City Government · State: Iowa · Source: WCF Courier
The Hudson mayoral election grew a little tighter and Gilbertville learned the name of a new council member Tuesday. Members of the Black Hawk County Board of Supervisors canvassed the votes for races in the Nov. 6 municipal elections countywide to certify the results.
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