Giuliani: Flawed or Flawless?: on Government Reform

Mario Cuomo: Permitted ballot question on State Island secession from NYC

Mike Bloomberg: 2001: opposed Giuliani extending NYC term limit

Everybody was terrified and nobody knew what was going to happen. And the thought of changing mayors at that time made a lot of people very, very, very scared. When he came up with that idea, Giuliani's advisors wanted to do what was right for the city. Interestingly, Bloomberg didn't think so. The only thing I can think of is that Bloomberg was being very closely advised by Koch, who probably understood the dynamics of politics better than anyone, and might have said to him, "It's a mistake; you can't change constitutional terms."

Rudy Giuliani: Attempted to undo term limits to extend his mayoralty

When Giuliani asked for 90 days after 9/11, he was pummeled, but he was right. As we are sitting here, more time has passed since 9/11 than it took to defeat the Germans and the Japanese in WWII, and other than repairing the subway and the PATH line, nothing has happened. For 90 days, he would have had the full attention of the Congress.

At the time of the mayoral runoff election, Giuliani made one last attempt to extend his mayoralty by attempting to undo term limits.

He was talking about trying to overturn term limits so he could run again. It is one thing to seek a onetime extension right after an attack--whether he was right or wrong I will leave to others--but it is quite another to use the attack to change the law permanently, which I thought was improper.