Vallone Sr. Weighs in on Term Limits and The Two New Yorks
November 30th, 2005
Former City Council Speaker Peter Vallone said he supported extending term limits for city council members from two to three terms at Gotham Gazette’s Reading NYC Book Club. (As Wonkster has noted earlier, all the candidates for council speaker are also in favor of doing this). Going to the voters would be ideal, said Vallone, but it would not be inappropriate for the council to simply pass legislation extending term limits despite two referenda in which voters called for such limits. These votes were unfair because the pro-term limit side had vast resources but opponents could not afford to get their case out, said Vallone, who recently supported billionaire Republican mayor Michael Bloomberg’s reelection campaign.
Vallone also gave a slightly different take on the “two New Yorks” theme. He suggested that New York City consider seceding from the state because it regularly gets shortchanged by Albany, and would also have more clout in Washington as a separate state. He did not have a strong stance on which New York would get to keep the name.
A full transcript of the event will be posted on Gotham Gazette shortly.
By Joshua Brustein on November 30, 2005, 11:49 pmIn category: Electoral Politics
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