More Speculation of a Third Term for Mayor Bloomberg

Term limits are a good idea and we need some stricter ones - two terms per level of government per person then go off to get a real job.

We need less real grass in our parks, maybe if we re-elected him he could make some progress on tearing up out baseball and soccer fields to cover them with turf, and replace those pesky unprofitable "trees" and replace them with cellphone towers.

Term limits are definitely a good thing, but more important on the federal level than the municipal level. I don't wanna speak for everyone, because I certainly belong to a small demographic in this city as a whole, but I think bloomberg's done a pretty good job at improving life in the city, and I wouldn't mind a third term.

I didn't support term limits until I saw them in action. Now I'd love to see them in Albany too.

Consider the mercy we've been granted because George W. Bush cannot run again for president.

Term limits of an executive position were invented for a reason. Please read some background on it: Term Limits in the United States.

Noted people such as Thomas Jefferson, Benjamin Franklin felt very strongly for term limits, for specific reasons. George Washington himself voluntarily refused a third term despite being amazingly popular, because he wanted to avoid anything resembling a monarchy or a dictatorship.

Remember that with term limits, you might be stuck with god-knows-who in the future. Bloomberg might not be so bad, but he's an old guy and won't live forever. Someone else will be our mayor soon enough. We cannot have a mechanism in place to let a horrible mayor indefinitely run the city.

While I like Mayor Mike as much as the next guy, it's important to respect the integrity of term limits. It's time for a new voice and fresh ideas.

Hizzoner has had some very good, long term ideas for the City's economic viability, but has often been unsuccessful in carrying out his message b/c of his condescending and impatient tone. For example, congestion pricing was a viable concept, but he failed to deliver the message that certainly would have gained every New Yorker's attention - the revenues from the price congestion tax would alleviate the need to raise MTA fares next year. That's all he had to say. Instead, he tried to sell it strictly as environmental and traffic issues, which deserve recognition, but obviously don't get the attention and support like freezing MTA rates. Therefore, Westchester and NJ politicians were able to spin the argument that their wealthy constituents that commute to Wall Street were treated unfairly. It was enough of a smoke screen to allow Sheldon Silver to let the proposal die.

Another example of Mayor Mike's failure to properly execute his message is the struggle to repair infrastructure. The State and Federal governments need to increase funding to the largest city in the world, but Bloomberg's main attempt to get more money was ill conceived and alienating. His plan to fix all of the infrastructure in one shot was to host the 2012 Olympic Games which few, if any NYers wanted. Oh yeah, it would have required the building of a massive football stadium/convention center that would have been used roughly 12 times a year. Of course, that's not going to work. Once that terrible idea was killed, massive repairs were put on hold indefinitely. Why do you need the Olympics to clean the Gowanus Canal, repair subway stations or to renovate the deteriorating Javits Center?

That aside, Bloomberg has generally been fiscally responsible (which we needed after Rudy). He also brought new revenue streams to NYC by providing tax incentives for film makers and by allowing grand, public art (i.e. the Gates). 3-1-1 was also a great idea...Maybe he'll serve the City even better as the next Governor of NY.

There should be term limits on ALL parts of our government.

I wish there were terms limits for all of Albany and Congress. They are far worse than Bloomberg has been.

We need less real grass in our parks, maybe if we re-elected him he could make some progress on tearing up out baseball and soccer fields to cover them with turf, and replace those pesky unprofitable "trees" and replace them with cellphone towers.

SP, what the fuck are you talking about? Bloomberg is one of the largest proponents of the environment in government today. Ever hear of the million trees initiative? Congestion pricing?

If you want to make a political point and dislike Bloomie, go for it, but arguing some bland, generic, and incorrect claim makes your contribution less than useful.

Commenters on this board are out of touch with average New Yorkers. The most recent poll shows that the mayor has a 71% approval rate.

If it’s true that the term limits could be overturned by NY state legislation, this might gets legs since Paterson would love to neutralize a Bloomberg run for the governorship.

quinn should shut her fat corrupt money embezzling face

bloomberg '09

we have term limits, they're called elections. the only reasonable legislated term limit is that of president, as the position was intended not to appear as a monarchy.

The fields I've played on since i was a child in Riverside park have all been torn up and turfed, as have many many others throughout the city, with the exception of Central Park which is protected from the mayor by it's conservancy organization. Congestion pricing failed. Bloomberg approved the New Yankee Stadium which stole 22 acres of public parks from residents and required the felling of oak trees which had stood there for close to a hundred years, at an official taxpayer cost of 220 million dollars (likely much much more.) He is a proponent of the environment for rich people. Middle class and poor people don't deserve shit, and according to him, since New York is now a "luxury product," they don't even deserve to live here anymore.

He's a republican disguised as a democrat who *RAN* as an independent so he can vote along republican lines?