From the Daily News:In an office near New York City Hall, City Council Speaker Christine Quinn convened a secret meeting of key Council members to discuss a poll she had quietly commissioned.
It asked voters whether they would support revising the city’s term-limits law in a popular vote. The results — for those in the room — were not good: the issue was a nonstarter.
Quinn “did everything she could to let us down easy,” someone who was there recalled this week. “With the poll, she was letting us know it would be impossible.”
That meeting was held in 2006. Yet two years later, Quinn would lead the council in joining with Mayor Michael Bloomberg to repeal term limits — through legislation, rather than a citywide vote.
And today, the results of that poll seem prescient.
Once the overwhelming frontrunner, Quinn nears the Sept. 10 Democratic primary for mayor struggling to reach the expected runoff. And no issue seems more responsible for hurting her candidacy than her decision to help Bloomberg win a third term.
It comes up nearly every day.
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By, Christine - and good riddance!
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