It ill behooves Matthew Goldstein, the chair of the New York City Charter Revision Commission, to describe the people of this city as the “true beneficiaries” of the approval of question one dealing with term limits. (“Four more years? Voters say No” -Queens Courier, November 4.)
Ultimately city elected officials will be limited to two four-year terms and sitting councilmembers will be unable to effectuate changes that would benefit themselves. However, courtesy of the politically slanted Charter Revision Commission, these changes will not take effect for many years, by which time many supporters of true term limits will have passed away, and excluded from its mandate are the current crop of officials, a political sop if there ever was one.
On a scale of one to 10, I would grade the work of the Charter Revision Commission as a “two,” hardly entitling Goldstein to his self-anointed accolades.
Benjamin M. Haber
Flushing
