July 30, 2009 @ 5:28 pm
Reading: Mayor For Life
Hold your horses New York — who’s asking Mayor Bloomberg about a fourth term? Why would anyone even want to imagine such a thing?
Via Elizabeth Benjamin and The Daily Politics:
Asked today whether there’s any guarantee he won’t try to seek a fourth term if his current bid for a third works out, Mayor Bloomberg didn’t exactly rule out the possibility.
The mayor first simply opted for the old “law does not permit it” response. When a reporter noted the law didn’t used to permit more than two, four-year terms, either, Bloomberg said:
“But it does now. It permits only three terms, so I don’t know. Talk to your City Council. Let me point out that I had no intention of running for a (third) term up until near the end, as you know.”
“The City Council changed the law. It’s up to the voters whether they want four more years. I’m going to work as hard as I can for this city for the next 150-odd days, and campaign as hard as I can for the next 96 or 97-odd days, and if the public wants me to keep working, they have a chance to express that on Nov. 3rd.”
Read the rest of the story here: Mayor for Life
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