via the New York Post

Council Speaker Christine Quinn yesterday backed out of her longstanding promise to work on overturning term limits for herself and her legislative colleagues.

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"I am today making a firm and final decision. I will not support the repeal or change of term limits through any mechanism, and I will oppose aggressively any attempts by anyone to make any changes in the term-limit law," announced Quinn (D-Manhattan).

"I don't agree with term limits," she said. "But they are the will of the voters."

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