Mayor Bloomberg's overturning of term limits angered voters and nearly cost him this election. But here in his acceptance speech he discusses his third term:
progress over the last eight years, I’ve got news for you: You ain’t
seen nothing yet.
Well, conventional wisdom says historically third terms haven’t been
too successful. But we’ve spent the last eight years defying
conventional wisdom. If you remember, after 9/11, when the pundits said
it would take decades for us to recover, we proved them wrong. When
they said crime could only go up, not down, we proved them wrong. When
they said nothing could be done to close the ethnic achievement gap in
the schools, we proved them wrong. We’ve proven the experts wrong again
and again and again and we’re not stopping now.
We’re going to make the next four years the best yet and we’re going
to do it with the same independent approach we’ve always taken: making
decisions based on the facts, not the politics. Doing the right thing,
not the easy thing. And taking the best ideas, no matter where they
come from. That’s what being independent is all about.