lohud.com

Sponsored by:

Term limits vote

June
5

The state Senate will take up a vote on bills to limit statewide officeholders (gov, lt. gov, AG, comptroller) to 8 years in office and to restrict legislators to 8 years as Senate or Assembly leader and 6 as a committee chairman.

The prime sponsor is a freshman, Sen. Joe Griffo, R-Rome, but the measures have the blessing of Senate Majority Leader Joe Bruno, who has served in his post for 13 years.

When the bills were introduced in April, the 78-year-old Bruno acknowledged such a change wouldn’t impact him: “Term limits doesn’t mean much to me at this stage of my life. So it’s not hard to say `sure.’‘’

Bruno’s counterpart, Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver, D-Manhattan, has expressed no interest in either bill.

This entry was posted on Tuesday, June 5th, 2007 at 10:44 am by Yancey Roy.
You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed.
Print This | Email This Email This

Advertisement

Leave a Reply

Advertisement
About this blog
Politics on the Hudson, from The Journal News/LoHud.com, is your online source for up-to-the-minute political news, insight and dish in the Lower Hudson Valley and New York state. Contributors to the blog include reporters and editors from Westchester, Rockland and Putnam counties, as well as Albany and Washington.

Subscribe
Politics on the Hudson Podcast

Daily Blog Email Updates


The Authors


Local Elections

Elections Central 2009

SMS Text Alerts
ÒWant to be the first to learn about breaking local political news? Subscribe to the new text alerts from Politics on the Hudson.Ó
Enter your phone number:
 
Advertisement
Other recent entries

Links



Recent Comments


Advertisement


Recently Updated LoHud Blogs
Monthly Archives


Bad Behavior has blocked 5573 access attempts in the last 7 days.