Author: Yoda

When Mayor Bloomberg and his billionaire buddies announced their decision to extend term limits, they said they were still in support of limits but simply wanted to extend them from two terms to three. In fact, taxpayer subsidized billionaire Mort Zuckerman’s Daily News insists that there is no argument about the concept of term limits.

However, reading what Mike and those he recruited to support term limits extension are now saying, they are making arguments against any term limits.

Here’s a sample of what was said after the vote and at the Council’s public hearings.

I challenge anyone to explain how any of these statements can be seen as supporting term limits any at any time.

At Thursday’s City Council hearing on extending term limits, former Mayor Ed Koch supported Bloomberg’s scheme.

http://cityroom.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/10/16/live-blogging-the-term-limits-hearings/#koch

Koch said:

“The change I support would allow those who are term limited to serve three terms rather than two. I have always supported 12 years as opposed to eight years. My belief in the need for three terms was predicated on my experience of mayor of the city of any.”

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."

Lost in the uproar over Mayor Mike’s back flips over the question of term limits, our billionaire Mayor made another curious announcement over the weekend.

Bloomberg told the Daily News, he won’t tell New Yorkers who he will vote for in the Presidential election.

http://www.nydailynews.com/news/politics/2008/10/05/2008-10-05_mayor_bloombergs_got_a_secret_his_pick_f-1.html

http://news.aol.com/story/_a/prominent-nyers-run-ad-supporting/n20081002112009990012

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.

In 1775, Samuel Johnson wrote "patriotism is the last refuge of the scoundel"

Reading Sunday's NY Daily News, I think I learned what the first refuge is now.

http://www.nydailynews.com/ny_local/queens/2008/09/13/2008-09-13_anthony_seminerios_arrest_could_hurt_gop.html

The story speculated about how the recent indictment of Assemblyman Tony Seminerio could affect the State Senate race between Republican Seph Maltese and Democrat Joe Addabbo.

In my earlier posts expressing amazement that Mike Bloomberg takes seriously the wackos in Virginia, otherwise known as that the Independent Green Party, I focused on the fact that the Indy Greens don’t think there’s anything strange about supporting both Mike Bloomberg and Chuck Baldwin, an anti-abortion, pro-gun  right-wing nutcase.

I did, take at face value, the assertion by the Indy Greens that they gathered the impressive total of 70,000 signatures for the Bloomberg “campaign”

Apparently Mayor Mike takes the "leader" of the Virginia Indy Greens a bit more seriously than I do.

http://www.nydailynews.com/blogs/dailypolitics/

Says mayoral spokesman Stu Loeser today: "He hasn't made any decisions and hasn't had a chance to speak with Mr. Campbell yet. But this is a call for post-partisanship that Mayor Bloomberg hopes the major parties will hear."

I wonder if Mr. Campbell will attempt to convince Mike to embrace the policies of Campbell's 2nd choice for President and support the repeal of Roe v Wade, thrown the UN out of NYC and support those oppressed gun owners.

If there was ever a doubt that many advocates for third party Presidential campaigns are not concerned about anything that is actually important, as opposed to their belief that being “independent” has some inherent value, Monday’s story in the Daily News should be a clincher.

http://www.nydailynews.com/news/2008/08/17/2008-08-17_mayor_bloomberg_on_virginia_ballot_as_ca.html

Thursday’s New York Times published two stories that reported what the Times apparently feels is news – that rich people with influence have benefits that poorer people do not have.

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/07/17/nyregion/17rangel.html?ref=nyregion

At Lenox Terrace, the luxury development in Harlem, management uses two sets of standards when it comes to rent-stabilized tenants, many residents say.

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/07/17/nyregion/17discretion.html?ref=nyregion