Our Democracy at Work

Here in New York, the City Council backed Bloomberg’s bid to run again.
The logic went like this: It would have been undemocratic to deprive voters of the chance to elect the mayor to a third term, despite the fact that voters had twice approved a two-term limit for elected officials. So the City Council did the democratic thing. It overturned the term-limits law.
This not only allows the mayor to run again, but enables two-term council members to keep their jobs by allowing them to run again, too. Let’s see, 23 of the 29 who stood up for democracy would have had to leave the council otherwise.

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