Is Bloomberg About To "Cross The Line"

Reporting from the Democrat National Convention, Elizabeth Benjamin quotes former City Council President Mark Green declaring that Bloomberg would "cross the line" if he supported changing the term limits law so that he and members of the City Council could run for another term.

Green said, "It is unethical and impermissible to change the rules in the middle of an election to benefit the Mayor and the City Council, who are the ones drafting and enacting the legislation to overturn the votes - twice - of the people."

In other news, Gene Russianoff of the New York Public Interest Research Group called a City Council effort to overturn term limits "undemocratic." And he indicated that if the Council passed anti-term limit legilsation it is likely his influential good government group would join the legal challenge to the action.

Also, Mayoral candidates Congressman Anthony Weiner and Comptroller William Thompson both oppose Bloomberg's idea of a legislative move to extend term limits.


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