Posted on 07/13/2009 11:22:29 AM PDT by Syncro
Yoon wants term limit for office of the mayor
by Brandon Simes
Managing Editor
Monday Jul 13, 2009
At-Large City Councilor and mayoral challenger Sam Yoon says he’ll serve no more than two terms if elected mayor and supports implementing term limits for the office of the mayor. Mayor Thomas Menino, one of Yoon’s three mayoral rivals-the others are South Ender Kevin McCrea and fellow At-Large Councilor Michael Flaherty, will end his current term as the longest-running mayor the city has ever seen, regardless of the outcome of this fall’s election.
"If eight years is long enough for the President of the United States, then it should be long enough for the Mayor of Boston," said Yoon. "Politicians, just like everything else, have a shelf life. After two terms, staleness begins to creep into administrations. Term limits ensure fresh leadership and a healthier democracy."
Yoon thinks term limits will increase the productivity of the mayor’s office.
"If a mayor had a set time of eight years to carry out his or her agenda, there would be more done and more accomplished in the mayor’s office. There needs to be a sense of urgency in city government," said Yoon.
Menino said last week in a meeting with reporters in his City Hall office that he thinks term limits have hurt California, because of a lack of experienced leaders in office, and that he doesn’t believe they should be set for the office of the mayor. McCrea has long been a proponent of term limits, and has promised to try to institute them within his first 100 days in office should he be elected.
Term limits can be implemented through a home rule petition in the state legislature or a ballot initiative. Yoon’s office said it’s weighing both options.
"The era of machine politics is over," said Yoon. "In the 21st century, we do not need mayors who become institutions and use the power of their office to build a patronage system that ensures their re-election every four years."
He is asking them to help him get elected.
Let's expose all candidates that are affiliated with that anti-American nasty vicious website that trashes children of conservatives and disabled people with glee and self rightous dignation.
Kos is one of the leftists websites that is attacking Free Reublic and has attacked Sarah Palin's infant son.
I know McKrea and he is a lunatic. My girlfriend dated him and he ended up cheating on her. She found out when he cancelled their date and did not click his cell phone off and she spent the next hour listening to him make love to another woman!!!!
I don’t know much about Yoon but he is well liked and different in an honest type of way.
Menino has to go though!
Liked by whom besides you?
Sorry, honest and affiliated with daily kos doesn't compute.
Menino has to go huh?
And the "liked and honest" Yoon is your idea of a good replacement?
Do you know anything about the kos website?
I know about the Kos crap but do you know anything about Yoon? I am from Boston so believe me when I say that people like Yoon in Boston. He hasn’t done anything yet that makes me hate him.
I know that Yoon is endorsed by daily kos.
And he posts there.
Plus he is a liberal
That's three strikes. I prefer conservatives.
You mileage may vary.
It’s extremely difficult to defeat an incumbent politician, and, so far, whenever Menino does have opponents, he ends up still winning very easily. I would be very surprised if Menino is ever defeated, and he has done plenty of screw-ups throughout the entire duration that he has been “da mayah” of Boston. Besides, Howie Carr has, both, a website and a radio segment where he often makes fun of Menino, just for what he says and how he says things on a variety of issues.
I guess the Romney stink is too fresh! Romeny was a Republican and now we have socialized health care in Massachusetts and we will soon need a bailout to pay for it!
I know we will never get rid of Menino. The same people who keep voting Ted Kennedy in do it every time. What do you want from a state that votes to ban dog racing (without any plan for where the dogs will go), decriminalize weed, but voluntarily vote to keep paying a 5% state income tax!!!???
Sam Yoon is a moonbat’s moonbat.
And what has Menino done for us lately?
And what has Menino done for us lately? period! Mumbles should have been thrown out of office long before now....he is an embarassement, as for Yoon, I haven't heard anything bad about him, yes he's a lib but a lib proposing term limits is unusual no? This Yoon guy can't be any worse than what we currently have, it would be nice to see a republican run, I believe there is one but his name escapes me - I think he was on Howie's show recently or was that a gubernatorial candidate? What with deval, mumbles, gigilo and the swimmer, my head is spinning!
We could open the yellow pages and point to a name and whoever would be better than the current clowns in office. It does not get any more pathetic than Menino, Deval, Kennedy, Frank, and Kerry.
Aw geez, I forgot about that pervert barney............
Just wait what Yoon will do for you. He could eclipse Deval Patrick on the moonbat scale.
I’m not shilling for anyone. I just refuse to base anything on Kos. What are you a McKrea supporter? Wouldn’t be surprised at all.
Romney is the former.
Of course Romney is no conservative! Would a conservative be elected in Massachusetts? No. All we get are Rinos and liberals so pick one because that is the choice.
Running a Conservative would be a nice change of pace, if only the DEAD GOP would stop the bullcrap and do it.
Is Ralph Martin the Republican that you are thinking of, because he was mentioned many times in the past as someone who was going to run for Mayor of Boston.
No one could eclipse Deval Patrick on the moonbat scale and there is no way I can ever picture Sam Yoon driving around in a new Cadilac on the taxpayers dollar!
no i’m not
Sam Yoon has been ridiculed too many times by Howie Carr to appear on his show.
Can you offer anything to prove that Yoon can out moonbat Deval? I just don’t see it at all.
Yes that name sounds familiar! Thank you!
No it was not Charlie Baker that I was thinking of, I know the name Charlie Baker or as one of the news people on RKO likes to call him “charlie parker”....it was Ralph Martin as johnthebaptistmoore has pointed out.
http://www.spoa.com/pages/election.htm
Sam Yoon, a newcomer representing Boston’s new minority power, won a seat on the council by an easy margin of victory. Yoon strongly favors rent control, but so did Maura Hennigan, who had to leave her Council seat in order to run against Mayor Thomas Menino. She failed in her effort. The Yoon-Hennigan swap does not change the Council make-up regarding rent control.
http://www.cityofboston.gov/citycouncil/CouncillorsCorner/CouncillorsCorner_Yoon.asp
Read this and tell me he doesn't sound like a driveling moonbat.
Ok, Yoon does sound like a moonbat. lol
If just MIT and Harvard paid taxes for the massive amounts of prime real estate they own (they donate a fraction of what they would owe because they are so community minded) the state of Massachusetts would be solvent!
The Mass. state lottery was suppose to lower my property taxes, when it was proposed, and that was when it was run only one day a week. Guess what? Now we have daily lotteries, keno and scratch tickets galore and my property taxes still haven't gone down.
I'm all for the “nonprofits” paying more taxes but I am not delusional in thinking it would help our state.
Massachusetts has a problem and it has nothing to do with not collecting enough taxes.
I came back last year after being in NH for about 8 years. Massachusetts is really the pitts. It was good in NH for awhile but then it started to resemble Massachusetts and I missed Boston so I’m back for more abuse!
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