Media Pave the Way to 3rd Term for Bloomberg

[Commentary] When Michael R. Bloomberg, the mayor of New York, stepped to the microphone last Thursday at City Hall to announce that he would probably run for a third term even though he was limited by law to two terms (a limit approved by voters twice), he said did not take the people's verdict lightly. "But as newspaper editorialists and others have pointed out," he said, "the current law denies voters the right to choose who to vote for — at a time when our economy is in turmoil and the Council is a democratically elected representative body." It is no coincidence that Mayor Bloomberg cited voices from the city's opinion leaders. With a fiscal crisis at hand, the business leaders of New York has already held a private referendum and decided who the next mayor should be. So in spite of his rather breathtaking grab for another term, there will be no opprobrium forthcoming from the editorial pages of the city's newspapers.