The Treaty of the Tycoons between Mike Bloomberg, indispensable Mayor and Ronald Lauder, sperm lottery winner and former patronage employee in the Reagan administration raises some interesting questions about the future Charter Revision Commission.
Lauder’s mouthpiece, Howard Rubenstein told the NY Post on behalf of the toilet water heir “I will reluctantly support the mayor's legislation to extend term limits to three terms, with the understanding that I will serve on a Charter-revision commission which will place the questions of the number of terms before the voters in 2010."
The questions I have are:
Since Mike & Ronnie have already agreed on what the Commission will do, will we have to endure any of those annoying public hearings where non-billionaires waste everybody’s time by telling us what they think?
Will this Commission need an Executive Director and staff or can we save the money and just Ronnie have Howard Rubenstein write the report?
Do we actually need any additional members of the Commission or should we be satisfied with just Lauder serving as the entire Commission?