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NYC 9/11 Public Portal Document

DAILY NEWS, THURSDAY, OCTOBER 4, 2001

ds Di Still hopes to pull off90-day extension By MICHAEl R. BIOOD DAIY NCWB CITY HALL BLiPEflU CHLCF After threatening to seek a third term, Mayor Giuliani announced yesterday he will not seek reelec­ tion — ending his efforts to repeal the city's term-lim­ its law. “It's too divisive to be a candl- new lite if the Democratic may- date on the ballot,” said oral primary is won by Mark Giuliani, who withdrew his Green, who agreed to giving name from consideration for the Giuliani an extended stay in of- Conservative Party nomination fice. The Legislature would still ”11 would lead to division and liti- have to approve it gation, ant) the city does not Giuliani said his offer to stay need division and litigation at in office was purely for the bene- this time ” fit of the city. Though tie ended any chance It was to "assure those people of a renegade candidacy, the who are uncnmfoitable unit iier mayor said at a news conference vous and worried that it would that he still hoped for a 90-day be n smuutli transition,” ihe । extension of his term to ensure a mayor said. “It's not political." smooth handoff of power in the "I wish people would take it midst of the World Trade Center on the merits." he said. “It has crisis. nothing to do with . . me. It has “The offer is there. If people to do with my concern For the want to accept it, they can," he city.’ said, adding that he would not The mayor was spurned by Al- actively pursue the issue. bany at the marnent of his great- His voice tightening, Giuliani est popularity, with polls show- took several barely concealed Ing that nine of 10 New "Yorkers slaps at Democratic mayoral approved of his management of hopeful Fernando the Trade Center Ferrer, who scoffed DTmnanrHIVTm t^tisis. But many of iClAIRESHUUVIAN■ those at the notion of an H*l»JlH^Wiff]llilCiH polls i extended Giuliani showfid that vot­ term and said he's City needs Rudy ers were reluctant ready to take over for a little longer to weaken the immediately term-limits law,

1 rASETIO '•] ihjnk that any­ which restricts offi- body who thinks cials n two four- they are ready For year lerms. this job on Jan. 1 — given the The mayor was encouraged monumental tasks that lie ahead by an outpouring of public sup- — doesn't understand this job," pert — people "begging me to Giulioui said. "There are some Stay and to run for another people who are so cynical that lerm," he said. But proposals for tr. ------- - [hey really think that 1 want to an extended term were opposed Jj hang onto this job." by eood-government groups “We disagree," said Ferrer that said the rule of taw would spokesman John Oel Cecato, be wounded by tinkeringwith or- The Bronx borough president berly succession, IS ready “to be our next mayor Giuliani s nirttmoii with n can-

an sems;?. rXiiTS bly to repeal lemi limits, which eventually proposed stay were approved tw.ee by city vol- three months, until «a_ It also showed that he didn t transition really want a full term and had , But raised the issue tnatnly as level- taneouslv began pushing for a age to try to get other pels to sup- repea I nf term limits, port Ihe 80-day extension. The Conservative Party of- ■ Even that effort is in Irouble. fered him its ballot line, but

ted s Most city legislators oppose and Giuliani called party chairman

I ■ ae extension, and one senior legis- lator dose to Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver (D-Manhat1an) said yesterday that the issue of an extended term was essential- ly dead. Michael Long yesterday to end those discussions. Giuliani is giving up any thought of ninning for another term “because he doesn’t want tu divide the city,” Long said. ________ )OWKTOWN ___VISIT President Bush with Mayor Gullanl In front of Ihe New York Stock Ei- ftrtSdld'[s«mblio'“ hsnge yasterday. 11 was the President's second visit to the city shite the Sept. 11 attacks. The extension is^e^ould get__ pie of New York,"

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