The New York city council has approved the extension of term limits from 8 to 12 years. Current Mayor Michael Bloomberg had noted his desire to run for a third term and have the limit raised. He released a statement after the decision.
Today, the majority of the City Council decided to give the people of New York a fuller choice in the November, 2009 election. I believe that was the right choice, and I want to thank Speaker Quinn for her leadership.
“Those of us who work on both sides of City Hall must now move forward with the important decisions that face us, particularly finding ways to soften the fallout from the economic downturn and balancing our budget as revenues decline. We have a lot of work to do together to get New York through these tough times.”
Update2: Turns out the girl WAS lying. The backwards B was suspicious but in this world you just never know who is crazy and who isn’t. Now we know, the girl with the backward ‘b’ on her cheek.
A 20-year-old woman who was robbed at an ATM in Bloomfield was also maimed by her attacker, police said.
Pittsburgh police spokeswoman Diane Richard tells Channel 4 Action News that the victim was robbed at knifepoint on Wednesday night outside of a Citizens Bank near Liberty Avenue and Pearl Street just before 9 p.m.
Richard said the robber took $60 from the woman, then became angry when he saw a McCain bumper sticker on the victim’s car. The attacker then punched and kicked the victim, before using the knife to scratch the letter “B” into her face, Richard said.
Richard said the woman refused medical treatment after the assault, which happened outside the view of the bank’s surveillance cameras.
The robber is described as a dark-skinned black man, 6 feet 4 inches tall, 200 pounds with a medium build, short black hair and brown eyes. The man was wearing dark colored jeans, a black undershirt and black shoes.
Currently being reported on Drudge
“SHOCK: MCCAIN CAMPAIGN VOLUNTEER ATTACKED AND MUTILATED IN PITTSBURGH “
“‘B’ CARVED INTO 20-YEAR OLD WOMAN’S FACE… DEVELOPING…”
Well the one poll showing a hefty lead for Senator McCain is from Military Times showing “landslide support for John McCain, who captures 68 percent of the military vote to Barack Obama’s 23 percent.”
Associated Press has info on votes cast thus far in some battleground states.
To summarize:
Nevada: Early voting in Las Vegas and Reno had 31,875 Democrats and 13,371 Republicans turn out with Republicans leading among absantees 6,616 to 6,161.
Florida: Republicans take the advantage with 295,000 absentee ballots statewide compared with 199,000 Democrats.
Georgia: 12% of the eligible population has already voted castin 55,709 ballots.
North Carolina: 214,000 voters went to the polls in the first two days of early voting 62% of which were Democrats and only 22% Republican.
This morning on Meet the Press Colin Powell endorsed Senator Barack Obama. Powell cited McCain’s inability to lead on the economy and his pick of Sarah Palin, whom he does not believe is ready to be president, as reasons to reject his friends candidacy and support Obama.
CINCINNATI (AP) – Close to one in every three newly registered Ohio voters will end up on court-ordered lists being sent to county election boards because they have some discrepancy in their records, an elections spokesman said Wednesday.
Secretary of State Jennifer Brunner estimated that an initial review found that about 200,000 newly registered voters reported information that did not match motor-vehicle or Social Security records, Brunner spokesman Kevin Kidder said. Some discrepancies could be as simple as a misspelling, while others could be more significant.
