Gothamist: City Council's Term Limits Hearing is on Thursday

Dude69

Tue, 14 Oct 2008 08:44:31 -0500

#1 - Stop with the Weiner bashing! He tried to make it easier for hot Eastern European models to immigrate over to NYC. Many Wall Street ibankers were eternally grateful.

blablanyc

Tue, 14 Oct 2008 00:40:43 -0500

SantosCollandriana- How is Weiner an opportunist? This is the definition of an opportunist: 1. the policy or practice, as in politics, business, or one's personal affairs, of adapting actions, decisions, etc., to expediency or effectiveness regardless of the sacrifice of ethical principles. Source That describes Bloomberg, Lauder and Quinn. It doesn't describe Anthony Weiner. Blommberg is the opportunist that had an ethics complaint raised against him last week for his term limit activities.

blablanyc

Mon, 13 Oct 2008 20:16:47 -0500

How can you say the public hearing has no teeth? The hearing is important. If Lauder and Bloomberg want to force the issue of term limits on the people of New York, we should be heard. Man, are they going to get an earful. The idea of needing Bloomberg because of a financial crisis is ludicrous. The nation is in a financial crisis now. How can anyone say there will be a financial crisis a year from now? Forcing the issue of a third term is self-serving. Article from Crains: Quinn's future at stake in term limits debate http://www.crainsnewyork.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20081012/FREE/310129943/-1/rss01&rssfeed=rss01

Rfive

Mon, 13 Oct 2008 19:59:23 -0500

the hearing has no teeth. if people don't want bloomberg or quinn, we'll have to vote them out. i just can't think of who else i'd want to run the city? catsimatidis? thompson (maybe)? weiner? hell fucking no.

Leon Freilich

Mon, 13 Oct 2008 17:09:12 -0500

STREAMLINING BLOOMBERG RE-ELECTION Three-quarters of a million New Yorkers Voted for Bloomberg in '05 And now he's planning to spend eighty million In a new election drive. But why enrich the media Along with their politican-doters When he can mail a hundred and seven Dollars to each of the Bloomberg voters? The election result would be the same Without an enormous amount of fuss And he would be spearheading his own Economic stimulus.

drewo

Mon, 13 Oct 2008 16:59:13 -0500

And after Bloomie serves his 3rd term, he'll put his weight (and cash) behind Quinn when she runs for Mayor. Its win-win for those two -- and the rest of us New Yorkers are only spectators. Quinn did say yesterday, "In difficult times, I believe voters should have the choice tokeep current leadership. If voters are not happy with any of us, they have the right to vote us out of office next November." Once again, using the Fear Factor. Times are always difficult to one extent or another. And voters did vote (twice) to keep you out of the office beyond 2 terms.

Wza

Mon, 13 Oct 2008 16:35:13 -0500

Mayor Bloomberg thinks Quinn's future is bright. The Observer reports that Mayor Bloomberg, earlier this morning, said he believed Quinn would be re-elected "overwhelmingly" in her district and would be speaker again. And: "If she's not re-elected to public office, however, Bloomberg said she would have 'enormous opportunities' in the private sector." WTF is with this guy?

SantosCollandriana

Mon, 13 Oct 2008 16:33:19 -0500

Anthony Weiner is a phony and an opportunist, he knows the term limit bill will pass (one way or the other) so when he runs against Bloomberg he needs to have something to stump on other than the fact he's another useless career politician who's never done anything except run for office. All this free press doesn't hurt either, I'm sure. Good luck, Weiner; you're gonan need it. All the synagogues in Rockaway can't help you against that Bloomberg war chest.