The New York City Council Votes for Change -- the Wrong Kind of Change
As per the New York Times, the City Council has voted 29 to 22 to extend term limits, thus allowing Mayor Bloomberg -- and all the councilmembers -- to run again.
Democracy in New York City died today.
Here's a picture of that enemy of democracy, City Council President Christine Quinn. Shame on her.
3 comments:
Not since the myopic rule of Peter Stuyvesant has this city seen such a dictatorial, heavy-handed move as the one pulled by Mayor Bloomberg and his obliging acolyte Christine Quinn. Ignoring the will of the people, they have smothered the only voices that matter. May this city rise up and remind these politicians that it is 'we the people' who run New York City !
Not since the myopic rule of Peter Stuyvesant has this city seen such a dictatorial, heavy-handed move as the one pulled by Mayor Bloomberg and his obliging acolyte Christine Quinn. Ignoring the will of the people, they have smothered the only voices that matter. May this city rise up and remind these politicians that it is 'we the people' who run New York City !
Mayor Bloomberg's argument that his business acumen is more valuable than the democractic institution that we call New York City eerily echoes the deepest fears that drove the architects of the US Constitution to craft a document that was intended to forever guard against the possibility of any one person usurping the will of the people.
When the delegates to the Continental Congress, of the nascent republic known as America, got ready to choose a leader, the well known 18th century writer, Mercy Otis Warren, who had the ear of John Adams along with other influential politicians of the day, warned her friends in the Congress not to pick a man with too great an ambition for, "Such a one might subvert the principles on which your institution is founded, abolish your order and build up a monarchy on the ruins of the happy institution." - Ellet, Women of the American Revolution, p.1:77
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