You Would Think They Would Be Satisfied With Getting Away With One
But no, they have to want more:
Posted: August 18th, 2010 | Filed under: You're Kidding, Right?While the idea of imposing a two-term limit for city officials will be on the ballot this November, those elected before the 2013 election would not be affected. That would give sitting City Council members the opportunity to run for a third term, regardless of how New Yorkers vote this fall.
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. . . [T]he speaker of the City Council, Christine C. Quinn, has argued that sitting Council members should be given the chance to run for a third term, out of fairness, since they were elected under the existing law.
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The decision by the commission effectively means that a two-term limit would not be uniformly enforced on the entire Council until 2021.