Term Limits

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Weiner: I Could Have Beaten Bloomberg

nytimes.com | MICHAEL BARBARO | Posted 11.11.2009 | New York

Read More: New York Mayoral Election, Anthony Weiner, Term Limits, Mayor Bloomberg, Anthony Weiner Mayor Race, Michael Bloomberg, Bloomberg Third Term, New York News

Rep. Anthony D. Weiner wants to clear up a few things. No, he is not kicking himself for staying out of the mayor's race. Yes, he thinks he coul...

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More People Voted For Term Limits Than For Bloomberg

nytimes.com | CLYDE HABERMAN | Posted 11.06.2009 | New York

Read More: Term Limits, Mayor Bloomberg, Bill Thompson, Bloomberg Term Limits, Bloomberg Mandate, Michael Bloomberg, New York News

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

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Back to the Future With Mike Bloomberg

Jarrett Murphy | Posted 10.27.2009 | New York

Read More: Term Limits, Campaign 2009, William Thompson, Mayoral Campaign, Michael Bloomberg, Bloomberg Third Term, New York Times, Policy, Affordable Housing, New York News

He says he will deliver us a city "safer, stronger, greener and healthier -- and better than ever." Who can argue with that? As for the details, polls indicate he'll have four years to nail those down.

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El Diario Backs Thompson For Mayor, Likens Bloomberg To Hugo Chavez

nytimes.com | Michael Barbaro | Posted 10.16.2009 | New York

Read More: New York City Mayoral Race, Mayor Michael Bloomberg, Mayor Bloomberg, Michael Bloomberg Third Term, Term Limits, William C. Thompson Jr., NYC Mayoral Election, NYC Latino Population, El Diario, New York, New York City, New York News

Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg has spent years trying to perfect his Spanish. He bucked Republican allies to endorse immigration reform. And he has create...

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Thompson: Bloomberg "Betrayed" Public With Term Limit Challenge

NBC New York | Victoria Cavaliere | Posted 10.14.2009 | New York

Read More: New York City Mayoral Race, New York City Mayoral Election, Mayor Michael Bloomberg, New York City Mayoral Debate, Bloomberg Third Term, New York Mayor Bloomberg, Michael Bloomberg, Michael Bloomberg Term Limits, William C Thompson Jr, Term Limits, New York City Mayor Race, New York, New York City, New York News

Mayor Michael Bloomberg and his Democratic challenger William Thompson went head-to-head Tuesday in a debate where each candidate touted his record in...

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Bloomberg-Thompson Debate: Bill Thompson Jr. Calls Michael Bloomberg A Liar

AP | Posted 10.13.2009 | New York

NEW YORK (AP)- The Democrat trying to unseat popular billionaire Mayor Michael Bloomberg lobbed multiple attacks at him during their first debate Tues...

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Bloomberg Donates $65M to Needy Campaign Consultants

Jarrett Murphy | Posted 10.05.2009 | New York

Read More: Anthony Weiner, Term Limits, William Thompson, Mayor, Wealth, Michael Bloomberg, Campaign Finance, Democracy, New York City, 2009 New York City Mayoral Election, Bill Thompson, New York News

Bloomberg is on pace to spend $118 million on this year's race and over a quarter of a billion dollars in declared campaign expenditures on his three runs for office.

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NYC Primary: A Low Turnout Coup?

Jarrett Murphy | Posted 11.16.2009 | New York

Read More: Term Limits, Campaign 2009, William Thompson, New York City, Michael Bloomberg, City Council, Mayoral Race, City Limits, New York News

BIll Thompson won the Dem nomination, but the real story was elsewhere. In City Council contests, voters delivered the broadest upset to incumbents in recent New York political history.

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Mayor Bloomberg and the Arrogance of Power

Jesse Larner | Posted 10.22.2009 | New York

Read More: Christine Quinn, Rudy Giuliani, Michael Bloomberg, City Council, Campaign Finance Reform, Term Limits, Darlene Mealy, 2008 Election, New York, Mayoral Election, New York News

All of Michael Bloomberg's defensiveness, and the egotism that clearly lurks beneath it, makes me wonder just why the Mayor really does want to hold onto the office.

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Abolish the Senate, Starting With Some Whittling

Rob Kall | Posted 09.19.2009 | Politics

Read More: Election Funding, Term Limits, Term Length, Public Option, US Senate, Politics News

Elected officials should never be allowed to become such monolithic entities, unaccountable to their constituents. It's time to eliminate the Senate, to update the constitution.

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Judicial Confirmation Process Needs 21st-Century Updating

Steven Hill | Posted 09.06.2009 | Politics

Read More: Supreme Court, Judge Sonia Sotomayor, Sonia Sotomayor Supreme Court, U.S. Senate, Sonia Sotomayor, Proportional Representation, Term Limits, Barack Obama, U.S. Supreme Court, Politics News

Recognizing the Supreme Court as an ideologically skewed judicial legislature helps us to understand how badly this crucial body needs to be updated for the 21st century.

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Fixing California

Bob Burnett | Posted 08.31.2009 | Politics

Read More: Term Limits, California, California Budget Crisis, Legalize Marijuana, Ronald Reagan, Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Politics News

California's problems are not insurmountable, but their resolution will require concerted action: new leadership, likely a new constitution, and the willingness to consider alternative revenue sources.

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Mayor-For-Life

Daniel Menaker | Posted 07.26.2009 | New York

Read More: Elections, Golf, Term Limits, New York City, Michael Bloomberg, Bloomberg Billonaire, Bloomberg Third Term, New York News

Generally, this spring, the Mayor has seemed prickly about many things. All of these prickles are growing, in my pseudo-psychoanalytic opinion, out of that term-limits override, engineered who knows how?

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Chavez Referendum A Democratic Act Threatening Democracy, La Opinion Editorial

La Opinion | Posted 03.16.2009 | World

Read More: Hugo Chavez, Venezuela, Latin America, Chavez Referendum, Term Limits, Hugo Chavez Venezuela Referendum, Chavez Term Limits, Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez, Chavez, World News

A year and a half ago, Venezuelans rejected the idea of unlimited reelections for the head of state. At the time, president Hugo Chavez defiantly desc...

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Chavez's All Out Push to be President for Life

Francisco Toro | Posted 03.12.2009 | World

Read More: Term Limits, Latin America, Re-Election, Hugo Chavez, Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez, President Hugo Chavez, Venezuela, World News

With die-hard Chavez loyalists installed in every key post in the state (from the state-owned media to the courts and Elections Council) there's no down-side to flouting constitutional rules.

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Legislative Term Limits

Duncan Quirk | Posted 02.21.2009 | Politics

Read More: Legislative Term Limits, Senator Byrd, Senator Kennedy, Term Limits, Robert Byrd, Ted Kennedy, Byrd, Kennedy, Politics News

As the world ushered in the age of the Obama Administration, the two longest serving Senators, Ted Kennedy and Robert Byrd, were taken away from the I...

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Moscow's Unseemly Haste To Amend

Robert Coalson | Posted 01.22.2009 | World

Read More: Russia, Term Limits, Amendments, World News

Russia's Federation Council on December 22 signed off on the ratification process of the controversial constitutional amendments that will extend the presidential term of office to six years.

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Putin Says Term-Extension Bill Is Not Meant For Him

AP | VLADIMIR ISACHENKOV | Posted 12.13.2008 | Politics

Read More: Russia, Term Limits, Putin Georgia, Foreign Affairs, Vladimir Putin, Putin Term Limits, Politics News

MOSCOW — Prime Minister Vladimir Putin said Wednesday that a bill that would extend the Russian president's term to six years was not tailored f...

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Bloomberg 1 -- Democracy 0

Mark Green | Posted 11.24.2008 | Politics

Read More: Bloomberg, Michael Bloomberg, Michael Bloomberg Term Limits, Term Limits, Nyc Term Limits, Voting Problems, Politics News

It's just wrong that Mike Bloomberg says it was too late to put a voter referendum on the ballot this November when it was the Mayor himself who stalled for nine months putting it on this November ballot.

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NYC Mayor Bloomberg Wins Fight To Run For Third Term

AP | SARA KUGLER | Posted 11.23.2008 | Politics

Read More: Nyc, Mayor Bloomberg, Mike Bloomberg, Term Limits, New York City, Nyc Term Limits, Politics News

NEW YORK — Arguing that New York needs his financial skill to guide it through the crisis on Wall Street, Mayor Michael Bloomberg persuaded City...

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The Terms of Term Limits: Bloomberg and His Most Recent Innovative Endeavor

Kim Stolz | Posted 11.14.2008 | Politics

Read More: U.S. Economy, Ancient Rome, Term Limits, 2008 Election, Economy, New York City, Nyc Term Limits, Politics News

When a city, county, state, or country undergoes challenging times--whether they be of political, social, or economic nature--the public often crav...

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Bloomberg Announces Third Term Bid For Mayor Of New York

AP | DAVID B. CARUSO | Posted 11.02.2008 | Politics

Read More: Mike Bloomberg, Term Limits, Local Politics, New York City, Nyc Term Limits, Politics News

NEW YORK — Mayor Michael Bloomberg announced Thursday that he's pushing for changes that would allow him to seek a third term leading the nation...

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Bloomberg Should Come to Terms and Resist a Self-Dealing Power Grab

Mark Green | Posted 10.18.2008 | Politics

Read More: Term Limits, Rudy Giuliani, Mayor Bloomberg, New York City, Michael Bloomberg, Politics News

Bloomberg has come to his fork in the road: One route ends with his legacy intact as an accomplished, nonpartisan mayor. The other leads to a dead end where no one can ever again believe him.

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