"Dave" wrote in message
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On Tue, 30 Sep 2008 19:39:14 -0500, Ken Marino
said:

N.Y. mayor bloomberg just announced that despite term limits he intends
to seek re-election to a third term.

The Times today carried an editorial on the subject of term limits, and
probably representing a new low in their typically muddled thinking. Bear
in
mind that City voters have twice voted for term limits. The Times
acknowledged that it would be feasible to extend or abolish term limits by
a
vote before the next election. But, it argued, the turnout would likely be
low in such an election, so it would be more "democratic" for the City
Council to just repeal the term limits law without asking voters. What
they
really meant by the reference to a low turnout, of course, was that those
favoring term limits would be more likely to turn out to vote than those
opposing term limits, so the City Council should just decide what the
people
want, and not bother with something so messy as a vote by the people.


Then, I suppose the people should vote the bums out of office. I don't see
why Bloomberg needs to be there another term, but I'm not up on NYC
politics.

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