Bloomberg's Term Limit Hypocrisy, False Pretenses For Running And Other Shenanigans

Mayor Bloomberg is certainly a very busy man and as we can see, quite the crafty politician. The Independent Mayor started the week off with a fundraiser for Republican Congressman Chris Shays and then jetted over to California to see Arnold. While there, he addressed the a voter referenda on how people get elected....in California. In a blatantly hypocritical move, he endorsed Californians will to let the people decide while styming democracy here in New York.

Back on the homestead, good government groups are going up against the billionaire Mayor with avengence. Yesterday a Freedom of Information request was filed by NYPIRG and Common Cause to see what the Mayor did not know and when did he not know it. Or in a nutshell, seeing when Bloomberg started stirring up the term limit waters in order to disprove his central argument for re-election, namely that because he can fiscally manage his own money that he should be given the right to do it for NYC until 2013.

And then to wrap it up yesterday, none other than Hillary Clinton voiced her strong opinion against the Mayor. She thinks that the Mayor's move is 'disturbing' to say the least and that she'll be keeping a close eye on how the situation develops. Obviously she has heard a lot from New York residents that do not trust the Council to do the right thing and as the Times suspects, two of them are probably close Clinton allies Rep. Anthony Weiner and Councilman Bill de Blasio.

As for today, the Council is holding its public forum here at City Hall this afternoon, going straight through until tomorrow. The forum gives each side to show their strength and allow for New Yorkers to make the Council know where the people stand on this important issue.