A candidate for City Council speaker has drafted a bill to extend term limits for the Council to three terms.
Councilman Jumaane Williams plans to introduce the legislation by the end of the year to allow Council members to serve three four-year terms instead of the current two, if voters approve the idea in a referendum.
Williams is among eight candidates running for Council speaker — all of whom have said they’d support giving their fellow pols a third term.
“This is only about what’s best for the city and best for good government,” said Williams (D-Brooklyn), who plans to release the bill Monday as part of a broader proposal outlining his plans for the speakership.
The legislation would allow three terms for the Council, while keeping the max at two for the mayor, public advocate, controller and borough presidents.
It would take effect if voters ratified it at the ballot box during the next general election after a vote by the Council for the measure.
Doesn't the process for getting referendum items on the ballot require a large signature gathering operation? If the people vote yes on the measure, then it becomes law. No city council intervention is required. However, no one is collecting signatures to get term limit extensions on the ballot because...the people already voted for 2 terms 3 times.
Sounds like a ploy for votes from colleagues.
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NO WAY-
BS, 2 terms and you are out.
I would like to submit a bill for city council called the GTFOH measure. Their social media savvy aides should get it.
Who was the council creep who complained that it takes ten years to get in the NYC pension and two terms doesn't accomplish that?
F these people.
City Councilmembers' Lives Matter more than anyone else's.
Corruption is the only way I can see this happens. The voters have twice agreed to term limits what the bell !
Holden will vote against this with a barn-burner of a speech.
The entire City Council needs to be sued by We, the People, for flagrant abuses of power that were never in their purview to exploit in the first place - including a 38% raise for which there was ZERO public referendum - but, ironically these OPENLY PRACTICING, predatory, voracious and rapacious criminals insist on YET ANOTHER round of public referendum to repeal city council term limits, when we've already had THREE FUCKING referendums in 1993, 1996 and 2010 that has affirmed our position on term limits.
Are they just STUPID or DEAF (or tone deaf)? And, just look at all of the time and money wasted that could have been spent on constituent services and doing what We, the People expect, insist upon and demand that these voracious, predatory and OPENLY PRACTICING thieves finally get to work (on ANYTHING, other than themselves and their taxpayer-funded retirement packages, naturally), but have never seen even a half day of marginal results from this part-time job with a double, full-time paycheck that now DEVALUES honesty itself!
Frankly, I am so completely sick to death at these vastly overpaid, do nothing, know nothing hacks that I am willing all of their collective appendices to BURST - the only way to rid such a toxic scourge of corrupt misfits, all of whom know only how to continually rob, cheat and steal from their ever languishing constituents like me, where THEY are lavished upon with a defined pension system that was always designated for THEIR CONSTITUENCY!
It's time to make public corruption a capital offense for these 'ALL PAY and NO WORK' sycophants of errant, political worthlessness! Men have been hanged for LESS!
I hope Holden does vote against it. Question though: does he get a CUNY pension? If he was on the council 12 years would he get a second pension?
Back to the topic at hand - how many fucking times do we need to vote against this? Can we get a new law additional law that literally fines any council person $500k for proposing term limits be changed? Would jail time be too much? At what point does this cross from selfish money grubbing antics to outright treason against the city and disdain for voters who have made their voices clear repeatedly?
NOPE... NOT GONNA HAPPEN !!
The entire City Council needs to be sued by We, the People, for flagrant abuses of power that were never in their purview to exploit in the first place - including a 38% raise for which there was ZERO public referendum - but, ironically these OPENLY PRACTICING, predatory, voracious and rapacious criminals insist on YET ANOTHER round of public referendum to repeal city council term limits, when we've already had THREE FUCKING referendums in 1993, 1996 and 2010 that has affirmed our position on term limits.
Are they just STUPID or DEAF (or tone deaf)? And, just look at all of the time and money wasted that could have been spent on constituent services and doing what We, the People expect, insist upon and demand that these voracious, predatory and OPENLY PRACTICING thieves finally get to work (on ANYTHING, other than themselves and their taxpayer-funded retirement packages, naturally), but have never seen even a half day of marginal results from this part-time job with a double, full-time paycheck that now DEVALUES honesty itself!
Frankly, I am so completely sick to death at these vastly overpaid, do nothing, know nothing hacks that I am willing all of their collective appendices to BURST - the only way to rid such a toxic scourge of corrupt misfits, all of whom know only how to continually rob, cheat and steal from their ever languishing constituents like me, where THEY are lavished upon with a defined pension system that was always designated for THEIR CONSTITUENCY!
It's time to make public corruption a capital offense for these 'ALL PAY and NO WORK' sycophants of errant, political worthlessness! Men have been hanged for LESS!
Without the extension they're unemployable. WQho woul hire any of these bozos.
isn't it great that Dizzy Lizzy got term limited?
:-)
HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA
Self serving ashole
"Progressive" self-serving piece of shit
The only thing this guy has done in his time in the Council is cut his dreadlocks..
I guess if I decide to open a restaurant and it bombs, I can get a job as a Council Member like him.
Seems he already knows his chances are slim as he's been talking about a run against Cuomo.
http://brooklyn.news12.com/story/36137804/report-councilman-williams-considers-possible-run-for-governor
Say what you want about our Governor, but it'll be great if this do-nothing runs and gets creamed (if he somehow wins, I give up on Democracy).
Take about unmitigated balls. Get a real,full time job.
Putin followed term limits, but not Bloomberg
Little by little, through voter ignorance or apathy, we are losing control of our politicians. We have no one to blame but ourselves so stop bitching!!!!!!!!!
> if voters approve the idea in a referendum.
Not gonna happen, we had to force term limits by referendum in the first place.
"Not gonna happen, we had to force term limits by referendum in the first place"
Ummm it did happen...Bloomberg Quinn, and the City Council found a loophole and bypassed the voter's will...and it will happen again
>Ummm it did happen...Bloomberg Quinn, and the City Council found a loophole and bypassed the voter's will...and it will happen again
Yep, and we undid it via referendum. AFIAK (and the council echos this) it now can only be undone via referendum.
If the council puts a referendum in front of the voters to extend term limits to 3, and the voters are foolish enough to approve it, that's on us. If they create some loophole that allows them to extend it legislatively, then it's time to break out the torches and pitchforks.
Jive turkey hustler!
He wants job security....meaning he can sit on his ass doing as little as possible while getting good NYC medical insurance coverage. Let us put an end to lazy incumbents at the voting booth. FLUSH ALL INCUMBENTS. The best way to drain ANY swamp is to make sure that stagnant water does not collect in the first place. NYC's city council is the most underrated swampland in the nation.
PU! Smell that methane gas?
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