Gothamist: Billionaires Waltz Around Term Limits

TK

Fri, 10 Oct 2008 08:59:03 -0500

Could someone list the major accomplishments of the Bloomberg administration? I would love to see them against a list of failures and incompletes.

ivysaur

Fri, 10 Oct 2008 08:14:11 -0500

End of the Gilded Age. Let's move on to the next.

longacre

Fri, 10 Oct 2008 02:17:58 -0500

#5: Bloomberg's term is only extended if you vote for him again.

sharpshoota

Fri, 10 Oct 2008 01:51:48 -0500

Just what we need. The biggest pro-ponent of all the crappy glass tower luxury condos in every freakin nook and cranny in NYC. This guy is a first class a$$hole.

blablanyc

Fri, 10 Oct 2008 00:59:11 -0500

sinisterteashop - your right about Bloomy and the bubble. Two years ago he realized a financial crisis was looming and he began working on changing the term limits. Yes. Two years ago Bloomberg started his efforts to change the term limits.

sinisterteashop

Fri, 10 Oct 2008 00:49:55 -0500

Billionaire glamour and wisdom don't have the charge they used to have. Koch, Giuliani, Bloomberg... each represents a New York that doesn't exist anymore. Bloomberg's just the latest casualty. His magic won't work anymore because the bubble he rode on has popped popped popped...

Kevin Walsh

Thu, 09 Oct 2008 23:35:13 -0500

Tell me again: how did a makeup heir get so much stroke in how our government is run? www.forgotten-ny.com

ivysaur

Thu, 09 Oct 2008 22:06:45 -0500

Throw the billionaires to the lions. I miss Mayor Koch.

Maybrick2001

Thu, 09 Oct 2008 21:46:40 -0500

Bloomberg is just being a Nazi...which is kind of ironic when you really think about it. He is basically saying..."The hell with what the people want and what the people have voted for...I have the power and the money so I will do whatever I want." Sounds pretty Nazi to me!

blablanyc

Thu, 09 Oct 2008 21:02:49 -0500

cucarachita - you are most likely not un-American. Because you are not involved in their activities. You simply have your opinion.

felixthecat

Thu, 09 Oct 2008 21:02:48 -0500

Even Socialist Chavez put the vote to the people to extend his term. Bloomberg is disgusting and a parasite to use this crisis to extend his job. It will take more than one mayor to solve these issues and if he cared then he can help in the background. Bloomberg gave only 5.5 million of our money to council member simcha felder to buy his vote on congestion pricing. Simcha Felder is very unethical and I am glad he lost to Parker. However he will now stay in the council another 4 years and will continue stealing from us.

Bubba

Thu, 09 Oct 2008 20:31:24 -0500

Why have elections at all? New York's billionaires only want to do what's right for us. We should just trust them. I say let them rule by fiat. Bloomberg for King!

cucarachita

Thu, 09 Oct 2008 19:39:48 -0500

I guess I'm unamerican too, because I'm all for keeping him. In fact, I would simply extend his current term for a year, and have elections then, with or without him, according to whatever gets decided about the third term. I don't want him running a campaign when he's supposed to be taking care of this city's economy. He's smart, his strongsuit is money, and money is what's at stake right now. My POV is as simple as that.

JacqueMehoff

Thu, 09 Oct 2008 19:22:55 -0500

they're probably going to use the Dow as an excuse. but we're on to them. you got your bail out, yes bail out and still it's in shambles. why? I'm guessing Greed.

blablanyc

Thu, 09 Oct 2008 19:09:08 -0500

Bloomberg, Lauder & Co. are un-American. There should be a hearing in Washington to get to the bottom of this. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Un-American