Christine needs to realize that she is the Speaker of the City Council, not the Speaker of New York City. She doesn't even have the full Council's support on this, so why presume to speak for all of us?
She'll never realize that because it's intrinsic to what leftist politicians do in office. They arrogate functions and powers that they don't have under the law or under custom, and will continue to do so until someone has the guts to make them pay politically for it.