…I too could buy my way into the city changing its charter so that I can be Mayor for life.
Interestingly, New York City is under the supervision of the Voting Rights Act of 1965, and the Justice Department of the government that this Bald Eagle represents had to approve this change in New York City’s charter. Those who wanted the DOJ to reject the change argued that a two-term limit has the disparate and marginal impact of precluding incumbency and therefore opening the field for non-white candidates.
What gets me is that Bloomberg is as left wing as a Republican can get, so he probably worries about white racism. But his own city must be white racist enough such that the DOJ considers it on par with the Mississippi Delta, in terms of their making sure black and other minority voters and machines are able to commit voter fraud.
