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New York Stories Posted in October 2008
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.
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