First-term members of the City Council plan to meet behind closed doors Friday morning to discuss legislation that would permanently revise the city’s term limits law, according to several people briefed on the matter.The meeting, billed as a “freshman caucus,” is planned as a forum for first-term members to grapple with the political and legislative ...
Read more »In the first issue of City Hall, published June 2006, Ronald Lauder laid out in full his thoughts on changing term limits through a Council vote. More extensively than any of his comments since, in this piece, reproduced below, Lauder wrote: "Yes, problems remain. Term limits never promised to make local politicians pure. Term limits just promised to limit their lease. And the ...
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UPDATE: City Council Speaker Christine Quinn said that she would not take a position today on legislation set to be introduced by Mayor Michael Bloomberg that would permanently revise the city’s term limits law.
Multiple sources with knowledge of the deliberations and the speaker’s thinking said they fully expected her to support legislation extending from two ...
Read more »After a week when the annual meeting of his Clinton Global Initiative
(CGI) raised $8 million which will go toward
projects helping up to 150 million people worldwide, former President Bill
Clinton spent the evening of Sept. 28 at the 92nd Street Y kicking off a new
speaker series, “The Business of Giving in the 21st Century.”
The program was introduced by ...
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Bronx Democrats could be forgiven for seeing double after
leaving the county party meeting September 28 at the Utopian Theater. Two
meetings were held, back to back, with two votes electing two different party
bosses.
The raucous evening was punctuated by boisterous cheers,
angry yelling, a scuffle on stage and, in the end, a wealth of confusion as to
who was in control ...
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Sen. Hillary Clinton (D) rallied support on Sept. 12 for a
$1.7 billion federal investment in mass transit projects in New
York and throughout the country.
“We are gathered in the heart of New
York’s public transit system at a crucial moment for
public transportation,” Clinton
said as she called on her fellow senators to back the “Saving Energy ...
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To overturn term limits and run again, Mayor Michael
Bloomberg (Ind.) has two ways of
getting there and a labyrinth of obstacles in his way.
Assuming Bloomberg is able to convince the City Council to
vote to amend the law governing term limits, good government groups that oppose
him—Common Cause, the New York Public Interest Research Group, among ...
Read more »Four members of the New York City
congressional delegation stood on the steps of City Hall August 4 to endorse
State Sen. Martin Connor (D-Brooklyn/Manhattan), a 30-year incumbent who faces
a grueling primary against a feisty insurgent, for reelection.
The event was the latest in a series of efforts by Connor to
pile up endorsements from prominent Democrats, including those ...
Read more »Rep. Anthony Weiner (D-Brooklyn/Queens) spoke at the Crain’s
breakfast forum July 22, unveiling his “Keys to the City” plan for job
creation, a central element to the middle class-focused platform he is once
again making central to his mayoral campaign.
Weiner called his plan an effort to build on the success of
Mayor Michael Bloomberg, whom he ran against ...
Read more »Democratic presidential candidate Sen. Barack Obama swept
through New York City on July 9 to
raise money toward retiring his former rival’s campaign debt and soothe
lingering tensions with some of her supporters.
Obama delivered a modified version of his stump speech to
about 1,000 donors at the Grand Hyatt New York
in Midtown Manhattan. He kept a jovial, if muted tone, ...
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Quinn and Majority of Council to Support Permanent Extension of Term Limits
Legal Labyrinth Awaits Bloomberg In Third Term Run
