I Love New York
Seriously.
Any place that forces tyrants to listen to the people can’t be all that bad.
After listening for nearly four and a half hours to emotional and at times harshly critical testimony from scores of residents, Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg signed legislation at 1:55 p.m. Monday to extend New York City’s term limits law, allowing himself and a majority of the City Council to seek a third four-year term in 2009.
The mayor’s signature was pretty much a foregone conclusion; it was he who had urged the Council to extend the term limits, overturning the results of two public referendums, in 1993 and 1996, that had imposed a limit of two four-year terms. Nonetheless, city law requires that before signing any law adopted by the City Council, the mayor must first sit and listen to any witnesses who want to come forward and speak about it.
What a great law. Maybe we should force it on the President.
Best comment came from a 14 year old Rachel Trachtenberg
“I may not be able to vote yet but I know for a fact that what you are doing is wrong.” She added, “Quite frankly, Mayor Bloomberg, you are cheating, which does not make a good example for the youth of New York City and the whole world.”
Of course, one might point out that when you elect someone who has made undermining a basic tenet of the constitution his political goal, you shouldn’t be surprised to find he’s a liar and a cheater.
update
Her grandfather left a comment!!
Here’s the you tube of Rachel telling the Mayor where to stick it
And here is her webpage
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But in the end those people made no difference. Tyrants will be tyrants; on the other hand it IS new York so I don’t care if another Mayor-For-Life-Daley takes over. They deserve each other.
Comment by emdfl — November 4, 2008 @ 9:03 am
14-year old tells NYC Mayor Bloomberg: \’You are cheating\’…
14-year old tells NYC Mayor Bloomberg: \’You are cheating\’…
Trackback by Dummocrats.com — November 4, 2008 @ 9:12 am
That 14 year old dynamo, Rachel Trachtenburg, is my granddaughter and I couldn’t be more proud of her for telling Mayor Bloomberg what she thinks of his power grab. She is the bravest kid I know and I don’t think many others - even adults - could have stood down the billionaire buyer of elective offices or been more eloquent in expressing her outrage at what he is doing.
Fot those of you who are not familiar with her career, Rachel was a sensation as an eight-year-old when she arrived in NY as the drummer in the Trachtenburg Family Slideshow Players. At nine, she performed with the band on Conan O’Brien’s show and had the venerable host speechless. Before the show, she was huddled in a corner with the bandleader. I don’t know who was teaching who what!
She presently has her own off-Broadway show, Rachel’s Amazing World which plays at Galapagos in Brooklyn on a regularly scheduled basis over the next several months. This is a spoof of the old tv kiddie shows constructed for children of all ages. I loved it when I saw an earlier incarnation of its present form last winter at the Green Room in the Village.
Thanks for your ear, er … eye.
Comment by Milt T — November 9, 2008 @ 10:24 am