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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.
Flushing Residents Petition to Recall Local Politicians
Category: City Government · State: New York · Source: Epoch Times
Flushing residents are collecting signatures from passers-by to recall two local politicians—Councilman John Liu (Queens) and New York State Assemblywoman Ellen Young. The Epoch Times interviewed some of the supporters on July 20, 2008. On July 4, a dozen Flushing residents initiated the “committee for recalling John Liu and Ellen Young” for their assisting crimes committed by the pro-communist thugs. More than 50 Chinese people signed to support on July 4. The campaign is co-sponsored by Chairman of China Democracy Party Union Wang Jun; Chairman of Peace Democracy Union of China Tang Baiqiao; a representative of the Korean community, Mr. King; the director of central committee of Liberty Democracy Party of China, Zheng Nan; and others.
Former Senator Gravel Backs NYC 9/11 Commission
Category: New York · State: New York · Source: Village Voice
After two presidential runs in one year, former Senator Mike Gravel is setting his sites on New York City politics, specifically a grassroots effort to have New York City citizens vote to establish a new September 11th investigation commission. The petition drive needs at least 30,000 residents to give their signatures in order to place a potential amendment to the city charter on the November ballot. The former Alaska senator and lifelong political loose cannon threw his weight behind the effort to establish a second, privately funded investigation into the events of September 11th, in response to what he called a fatally flawed 9/11 Commission report.
Opinion: MOUNTAIN VIEWS: BIG APPLE PARTIES AT OUR EXPENSE
Category: Taxes · State: New York · Source: Niagara Falls Reporter
Every once in a while, since I reached the age of reason, I've heard residents of upstate New York, particularly Western New York, talk about "seceding" from New York City. The thought-to-word process usually took the form of mumbling and grumbling about some new fiscal atrocity dreamed up by Big Apple legislators and visited upon the upstate regions, which benighted Manhattan residents seem to think is generally centered somewhere around Peekskill. More often than not, I was amused. Now, I am paying attention.
Spending Trumps Social Issues on Ballots This Time
Category: Immigration · State: New York · Source: The New York Times
When it comes to the state and local ballot measures before voters across the country on Tuesday, it is mostly about the money.
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