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As seen on the front page of the NY Post!

The Really: After years of being dead set against extending or changing term limits, Bloomberg is really doing an about face and looking to enact a law that will allow him to run for a third term.

Republican Mayor Michael Bloomberg is doing what he said he despised, he is looking to extend term limits and run to extend his length of being Mayor of New York City. Some think this is a good idea, some think its horrible. We just think he is silly to have said things such as the direct quotes below and now change his tune. Could Mayor Bloomberg have read our earlier post entitled “If The British Could Have Their Way…” and thought is was true and not the joke we were intending it to be?

Direct quotes from Mayor Michael Bloomberg:

“The public has spoken twice through referendums, and I think that if the public changes its mind, the public has a right to do so. I would oppose any change in the law that a legislative body tries to make. It seems to me that democracy has been given a chance, and we should live with the results.” –- February 2002

“At a time of excessive cynicism about so many of our institutions, I believe that elected officials should seek at every opportunity to maintain and enhance the trust of the citizens… I believe it is simply inappropriate for those members elected in 1997, who were aware of the rules under which they were elected, to seek to change those rules in a manner that may work to their own advantage.” — August 2002

“My experience in business has been, whenever we’ve had somebody who was irreplaceable, their successor invariably did a better job, and I think change is good. Yes, you throw out an occasional good person, but you also throw out a lot of people who have just gotten stale and take it for granted, haven’t had any new ideas, so on balance I’ve always been a believer in term limits.” — 2006

“If the bill were to change term limits from two to three, I would have to think long and hard about it.” — September 9, 2008

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