Bloomberg Declares Anti-Term Limit Campaign Dead

Mayor Bloomberg told a Brooklyn news conference that a campaign to overturn term limits will not happen. Bloomberg said, "It's not going to take place."(August 4, 2008)

With these words, Bloomberg joins Council Speaker Quinn in publicly declaring that they will not lead or support an anti-term limits campaign. 

This has not stopped the New York Sun from publishing two articles which may leave the impression that a serious campaign against term limits might be materializing. Today, the Sun gives space to the once poster boy of why New York City needs term limits, former Council Speaker Peter Vallone. The Sun publicizes Vallone's continued anger at the Term Limits Law that bounced him out of office. He even threatens to lead a campaign against the law.

The Sun does not report that when the voters of New York overwhelmingly approved the Term Limits Law, Vallone declared that he did not recognize the vote. This Stalinist attitute to a vote of the people led Vallone to marshall a massive war chest to overturn the Law in 1996. 

Despite being outspent by Vallone, New Yorkers for Term Limits beat him at the polls, again.

There is no question that Vallone out of office could not launch an anti-term limits campaign without the support of Bloomberg. And Bloomberg has said he will not challenge the law.

Which brings us to the question: Why is the New York Sun allowing itself to be the platform for every powerless politician who wants to go back to the bad old days of career politicians like Vallone mis-governing the City of New York?

We can understand Vallone getting excited because his son, the City Councilman will have to find a new job when his term is up, but the Sun?

Read Newsday's Dan Janison here.


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