More People Voted For Term Limits Than For Bloomberg

nytimes.com:

According to a standard set by one prominent New Yorker, Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg's re-election ought to be dismissed as inconsequential. That standard comes from Mr. Bloomberg himself.

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Comments

[Citizen54]

Term limits won the most votes but lost anyway.

Truly we are living in BizzaroWorld!!!

[winterthur]

Bloomberg broke the rule$ and BUYED HI$ WAY THRU A BILL in front of the City Council ... you're out Mike Bloomberg ... you've lo$t our re$pect ... even you can't break the rule$ and get away with it.

Put up or $hut up : more "affordable hou$ing" or more "unaffordable ELITE condominium$" for NYC ... we're watching you.

[coco51]

wait, what's the point of the article? Didn't the New York Times endorse Michael Bloomberg with this little paragraph....

Mr. Thompson also argues that the mayor unfairly worked to get rid of term limits so that he could run this third time. We supported his efforts to do so because term limits unfairly limit voters’ choices. But the mayor has sent signals that once he is elected, he will set up a charter commission to try to restore the limits.

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/10/24/opinion/24sat1.html?_r=2&adxnnl=1&adxnnlx=1257548360-JEMKvPe87LDtQKsftihUVQ

Such hypocrisy!

[NYC07]

Bloomberg's response: More "People" oh you mean more "Little People", well they don't count .

[bluejoewho]

I refuse to "log on" to read an article. It's very poor form HP to link to articles that make others log on. I wouldn't make a habit of this.

[MrWampler]

I use a throw-away email address and logon/pass for all newsites that require a logon. It's not that hard.