via The Daily Politics

Council Speaker Christine Quinn will not be announcing her position on extending term limits today, according to her Communications Director Jamie McShane.

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That runs counter to a City Hall news report this morning that Quinn, along with a majority of Council members, has decided to support a permanent change of the limits from two, four-year terms to three and would be announcing her decision as early as this afternoon.

Despite her emphatic comments last December, it would come as no big surprise for Quinn - a close ally of Mayor Bloomberg - to support his effort to extend term limits, enabling himself, citywide elected officials the borough presidents and the Council members (including the speaker) to seek re-election next fall.

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