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NEW YORK (AP) – A group of prominent New Yorkers has taken out an ad calling on the City Council to change the term-limits law so Mayor Michael Bloomberg could run again.
The group – including Henry Kissinger and JPMorgan Chase & Co. chief executive James Dimon – lavishly praises Bloomberg, but stops short of an outright endorsement of a third term for him.
The newspaper ad notes Bloomberg's accomplishments in his six years in office and says they are at risk because of the nation's financial crisis.
The ad urges the council to extend the term-limits law to allow more than two four-year terms "in order to give New Yorkers the opportunity to vote for whomever they think can do the best job during these though economic times, including our current mayor."
Among those signing the open letter are Goldman Sachs chairman and CEO Lloyd Blankfein, real estate and publishing magnate Mortimer Zuckerman and a number of other of the city's real estate and financial executives.
The former Chairmen of Lehman Brothers, AIG & Wachovia were indisposed and unable to join the campaign.