{"id":3493,"date":"2008-06-06T08:31:55","date_gmt":"2008-06-06T13:31:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/?p=3493"},"modified":"2008-06-06T08:31:55","modified_gmt":"2008-06-06T13:31:55","slug":"sure_change_the_charter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/archives\/2008\/06\/sure_change_the_charter.html","title":{"rendered":"Sure, Change The Charter . . ."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>. . . <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nypost.com\/seven\/06062008\/news\/regionalnews\/takin_it_to_the_limits_114206.htm\">just as long as it doesn&#8217;t apply to any current office holder<\/a>, which is what most responsible elected bodies do:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>In a sudden turnabout, Mayor Bloomberg said yesterday there&#8217;s still time to mount a ballot initiative this year to revise the City Charter &#8211; the likeliest route for altering term limits so the mayor could run for re-election in 2009. <\/p>\n<p>Bloomberg has yet to name a Charter Revision Commission to conduct a top-to-bottom review of the government and recommend changes to put before the voters in a referendum. <\/p>\n<p>Those changes could include extending term limits from eight to 12 years, either for all city officials or just for the legislative branch. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I just haven&#8217;t focused on it yet,&#8221; the mayor said of the delayed appointments. &#8220;I&#8217;ll get back to you in the next few weeks.&#8221; <\/p>\n<p>When he first announced plans for the commission in his State of the City Speech in January, the mayor said its work would take 18 months. <\/p>\n<p>But yesterday, he changed the timetable. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;If you wanted to put something on this [year&#8217;s] ballot, there&#8217;s still plenty of time to do it,&#8221; the mayor said.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>OK, this is getting silly . . .<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>. . . just as long as it doesn&#8217;t apply to any current office holder, which is what most responsible elected bodies do: In a sudden turnabout, Mayor Bloomberg said yesterday there&#8217;s still time to mount a ballot initiative this year to revise the City Charter &#8211; the likeliest route for altering term limits so [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[64,14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3493","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-please_make_it_stop","category-political"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3493","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3493"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3493\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3493"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3493"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3493"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}