So Obviously The Borough President Is Also One Of Those Indispensible Posts; There’s A New One . . .

I understand that Mayor Bloomberg is the only person out there who can single-handedly save New York City from a worldwide financial meltdown, which makes it absolutely vital to allow him to run for a third term. And although it’s unclear why a philosophical line-in-the-sand needs to be drawn at this point, without much public debate, about the effects of term limits on representative bodies like the City Council, I understand the arguments against term limits (though which is it — a one time-only break to ease the city into the upcoming financial crisis or a principled stand against term limits?).

But for the life of me, I will never, ever, ever understand why the offices of Borough President, Comptroller and Public Advocate are so necessary that those posts also should be included in the legislation. But then there they are, also in the legislation:

Notwithstanding any provision to the contrary contained in this charter, no person shall be eligible to be elected to or serve in the office of mayor, public advocate, comptroller, borough president or council member if that person had previously held such office for three or more full consecutive terms, unless one full term or more has elapsed since that person last held such office; provided, however, that in calculating the number of consecutive terms a person has served, only terms commencing on or after January 1, 1994 shall be counted.

Not just unserious — profoundly unserious! Again, fuck all you all!