I am so sick and tired of being sick and tired with the way this city is being run.  I am so fed-up that I am almost ready to move to Iowa.  But I won't do that, because I love this city too much. 

No Third Term for Michael Bloomberg !

We voted last November for a new President, and this November, we have to finish what we started -- by voting for a new mayor.

Mary Alice Miller,

Thank you for posting. I had no clue this publication existed and may never have if not for you.

I have high hopes that this publication gets read and passed on to others. Those of you lucky enough to get a hold of a copy, please don't toss it in your recycle bin after reading it; pass it on to a friend, and ask him/her to do the same.

I also have high hopes that this publication also does stories about those that voted NO....yet were all to happy to run for a 3rd term anyway. For example my own city councilman, Charles Barron.

He was one of several very vocal opponents of extending term limits, along with Councilmembers DeBlasio, Gioia, Lui, NYC Comptroller Bill Thompson and NYC Public Advocate Betsy Gatbaum.

The difference is that of all the names above, Barron decided to take advantage of the situation and run for a 3rd term afterall, despite very public statements to the contrary, one that you can read by clicking here.

Barron had made a number of typical rhetorical speeches about this late Fall/early Winter, stating that he would only run if his constituents wanted him to run.

He never asked me. He never asked my neighbors (and I have never seen him anywhere near my block--unless TV cameras happen to be close by). I knew when he made his baloney statements a few months ago that he was trying to figure out how to slip himself into the race.

Of course, voters will probably never get a chance to hear him explain this in a forum that allows for the maximum number of persons to see and hear his flip-flop on this issue: a live debate on TV against his challengers. The reason was covered in a separate post by Rock Hackshaw.

I hope the editors of FUNY are reading this (I'll probably email them too), and I hope they expose hypocrites like Councilman Barron in their pages very soon. The people of the 42nd deserve to know.

To me it's councilmembers like Barron that are worse than the ones who voted YES to extend term limits, with whom there was no pretense in their vote (but certainly in their rationale). Councilman Barron showed himself to be an opportunist, to have no honor and most of all a liar.

SHAME on Mayor Bloomberg, Speaker Quinn, and all the other opportunists that have made a joke of voter referrendums.

SHAME on Bloomberg, Quinn, and the council for telling the people that they were needed to steer the city out of the fiscal crisis (and never answering the basic question of why so little was done to avert it, since dozens of Wall Street analysts knew it was coming). Bloomberg's so-called rainy day fund was picked apart by the Manhattan Institute for being far less than it appeared, yet didn't get much press.

That's because of the major daily newspapers, so SHAME on the Daily News, NY Post, and NY Times for selling out and compromising your journalistic integrity. You will never have the credibility to call anyone in office a flip-flopper ever again as far as I am concerned.

SHAME on Bloomberg and Quinn for orchestrating this coupe of city government, when there was ample time to get this on the November ballot as a referrendum and you purposefully ran out of the clock--and at a time when voter turnout was predicted to be especially high, removing any pundit's claim that not enough voters came out for the referrendum.

SHAME again on Bloomberg and Quinn for running out the clock during the general election of an historic turning point in our country.

Another SHAME on the newspapers for not questioning the mayor hard enough at the time to expose his plan to run the clock out.

And SHAME SHAME SHAME on Councilman Barron for pretending to be so outraged by the coupe, yet disgustingly taking advantage of it. You have finally crossed the line to become what you promised in 2001 you wouldn't become: the typical East New York politician. "Welcome" to the club. You embarrass me.

Juan B,
East New York

Mary,

Please don't believe the hype on JOHN LIU, he is a media whore, He was no where in the demos or the court hearings in Brooklyn for the term limits appeals.  CM James and Norman Siegel attended all the meetings and court date.  Also John Liu is catering latinos and African american votes but he has no compassion or concern for them.  I had a personal experience with him where he spoke down to me and told me that he didn't have to give me any answer.  Liu is OLD China with the racist mentality and I hope people realize how dishonest and nasty he really is.,