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For those of you who aren't old enough or not from NYC, can you guess who was the head of the city council when city law was overturned to allow Bloomberg to run for a 3rd term?
I believe it's just his method he went about getting it, he signed the bill that allowed him to have a third term, so after winning on the first day in office turns around and signs a new bill preventing anyone else from having a third term. There was also improprieties in regards to his donations from a personal account to the independent party.
You're asking why it's bad that a wealthy politician bought himself a third term?
I asking why it was bad to have a good mayor for longer. Did you want Deblasio and Adams sooner?
Edit: LaGuardia also served three terms, btw.
Edit 2: Koch had three as well.
Because the city council overrode two previous voter referendums (from both 1993 and 1996) that affirmed the public wanted a two-term limit, and rejected an attempt to hold a new referendum.
And the public changed their minds and voted for him a third time. He wasn’t made mayor by the city council. He was allowed to run again and the people ultimately decided they wanted him again.
The fact that he remained popular as a candidate doesn't cancel out the reasoning behind term limits (and why they have wide support, to the point that a two-term limit was immediately reinstated). It almost illustrates the whole point actually, which is to stop a single person from consolidating too much power- regardless of popularity
Out of a choice of two people.
You call downzoning vast portions of the city and beating the shit out of protestors the qualities of a good mayor.
And if Bloomberg decided that he wanted to be mayor for life?
He didn’t decide. The people voted for him. A lot of political roles don’t have term limits. In fact, the Mayor didn’t have term limits until after Koch (1993).
Yes, when the city put to a public referendum and the public voted in favor of it.
You can think Bloomberg was an effective mayor, and think that the process for him to get a third term was politics at its worst and not want to vote for the people who enabled it. The two feelings aren’t mutually exclusive.
I loved Ed Koch.
Old Man Bloomberg was a usurper and Quinn enabled him.
Easy there, Viserys.
King Bloomberg, first of his name, Lord of the Five Boroughs and Protector of the Tri-state area
Um... the guy went HAM on SQF...