Bloomberg Once Again Mentions a 4th Term

Can we get Mayor Bloomberg to say that he will not run for a fourth term in writing? A couple of weeks after the mayor left the door open about the possibility of extending term limits a second time and attempting to stay in office for a total of sixteen years, he once again alluded to the notion of four more (more) years. This time the slip came during his weekly radio broadcast while the mayor was discussing a campaign initiative which would have 120,000 New Yorkers graduating community colleges by 2020. He said, "Community colleges are really a step for a lot of people. We did it as part of something where I was trying to lay out in the campaign [what] you would do in a fourth term, which I think you have a responsibility to do." Just as with the last instance of the mayor expanding his horizons, a spokesman was quick to insist afterward that Bloomberg intended to say his third term. The city college graduation plan would actually come at the end of a fifth Bloomberg term, which the mayor has not yet commented on.

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By Billy Parker in News on August 16, 2009 4:44 PM

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Mr Mel

Stick with a winner.

what_a_dick

such a dick!

Reflect

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We know who you are bloomz.

ANGRYGOD11

It's common knowledge Bloomberg is a great administrator, but is it true?

Is NYC the best administrated major city in the country?

Unlike some other large cities, our mayor has a lot of power and only a weak city council to stop him. So, the buck clearly stops with him. With a booming bubble economy the city's debt increased, public pensions are out of control and although thousands of finance jobs were lost, the city didn't really cut public employees.

The emperor has no clothes and it's pretty ugly.

ANGRYGOD11

If two terms were enough for George Washington, then 2 terms are enough for anyone.

dadoc

Felix must be dead, or there would be 100 comments. Someone please call 911 and dispatch rescue to his abode.

Mr Mel

I believe he's doing 10 days for turnstile jumping.

JacqueMehoff

must be nice to be rich, very rich.'

not a care in the world. piss on the poor, it's liquid gold.

thepete

I don't care if he's given us each HD TVs and lined the streets with gold--anyone who wants to run things longer than the rules say he can is power-grabbing. Plain and simple. Don't care about his ego or his plans. If term limits are in place and he runs again via a loophole, that's wrong.

Rocknrope

Yeah, sure, do whatever you like. You a ton of money, so you must be right. NYC is your own little fiefdom, you deserve it.

/sarcasm

Not Your Sweetie

As a voter I am dismayed my vote is so important to Bloomberg and his media.... I guess I was under the delusion this wasn't a plutocracy...

NannyState

Will the tanks and missiles be parading past his portrait?

inoyourider

I'll vote for him as long as he runs.

Despite some missteps an intelligent man who is into politics for the right reasons.

Spirit of 76

The right reasons? The man is on an ego trip that dwarfs even Giuliani's power grab just after 9/11. Only he can fix the city!!! Nobody else! Screw what the voters say! Everybody else who accedes to term limits are wimps!

inoyourider

He's done well. Better than we would have done under say Mark Green or Hevisi....

Better than Giuliani, if I dare say....

I must be one of those rare people that judges local politicians based on how my life goes while they're in office...

Spirit of 76

Other politicians have done well. Bill Clinton among them. None of them tried to overstay their welcome in defiance of term limits. They got their eight years to make a difference then it was time to move on.

inoyourider

FDR?

And any politician that makes my quality of life go up every year gets my vote EVERY time they run, regardless of time served. Perhaps if we all just threw out bs rules and voted for quality of life....nah too smart for NYC folk.

We might look down our noses at the rest of the country but deep down we're every bit as dumb, probably more.

Spirit of 76

Ah, of course. The eternal reason why people like Espada and Sheldon Silver are re-elected time and time again. As long as they bring home the pork, you're happy to keep voting for them.