Two years after Mayor Michael Bloomberg and the City Council overturned the city�s term-limits law, the third-term mayor cast a ballot Tuesday in support of reinstating a limit at two consecutive four-year terms.

The electorate voted twice in the 1990s for a cap on two terms. On Tuesday, city voters will have yet another chance to make their voice heard on this issue. Some New Yorkers � most notably William Thompson, Bloomberg�s Democratic opponent in last year�s mayor�s race � called the mayor�s stance hypocritical and self-serving.

�I don�t think it�s hypocritical at all,� Bloomberg told The Wall Street Journal on Tuesday. �The public came to me and said that they wanted to, wanted me to change term limits, see if I could get term limits changed, serve another term,� he explained. �I said I�d be willing to spend four more years of my life helping the public and doing what I think is right so I leave my kids a better world. Did that.�

�But the public clearly wants to go back to two terms, and I said that it would be on the ballot. It is,� he added. �The public has a chance to express themselves today. That�s what democracy is all about.�

By voting yes on the term-limits question, voters would be rolling back the law to cap elected officials� service at two terms. A yes vote also would prohibit the City Council, in the future, from changing term-limits in any way that affects incumbents.

There is a controversial �grandfather� clause in the measure that allows elected officials currently in office to serve three terms, even if the public decides Tuesday to return the cap to two four-year terms, beginning with office holders elected this week.

If voters vote no on the term-limits question, the law will remain as is � a three-term cap.

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(Source: WSJ)