Here’s a list of how the City Council Members from Brooklyn voted on extending term limits which, of course, passed the City Council yesterday. There were 11 that voted “yes” and only 5 that voted “no”: Charles Barron: no; Bill de Blasio: no; Erik Martin Dilan: yes; Mathieu Eugene: no; Simcha Felder: yes; Lewis A. Fidler: yes; Vincent J. Gentile: no; Sara M. Gonzalez: yes; Letitia James: no; Darlene Mealy: yes; Michael C. Nelson, yes; Domenic M. Recchia Jr., yes; Diana Reyna, yes; Kendall Stewart, yes; Albert Vann, yes; David Yassky, yes.
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1 Phil // Oct 24, 2008 at 9:44 pm
I’m not in favor of term limits. I don’t like it. I think the idea of term limits is a conservative movement thing. But what’s important here is that there have already been two referendums and the people voted to allow two terms as a term limit. Now the council and the Mayor have decided that what the people have said with their vote doesn’t count. Oh please. Vote everyone of them who voted for extending term limits out of office now just for that. . . Look if they wanted to extend term limits for an extra term then they should have proposed it during their first term. . . hypocrites — especially Mike Bloomberg who thinks he’s descended from the Medicis or the Borgias . . . Vote the bums out.