David, your missing the point of the thread here, the point is not if Michael Bloomberg has hurt me or anyone else here or even if we live in New York. the point is that the voters of New York twice voted for term limits for the mayor of your city, and the mayor and your city counsel usurped the will of the voters without asking the voters. That is a display to the entire country of how far a public official will go to hold on to the reins of power. If the people of New York decide to retain Michael Bloomberg then all they are doing is making a statement to future mayors that the will of the voters can be usurped at anytime at the whim of the mayor or any public official.
I would not have made this statement had the mayor gone to the city counsel and said, can we put a ballot proposal forward that will recind the term limits for mayor and done so long ago prior to the end of his last term. The fact that Michael Bloomberg has been the best mayor ever for New York means nothing in the face of usurping the will of the voters.
I think that we, the voters of NYC, can decide whether hes usurped the will of the voters. If he has, then he gets voted out. If he hasn't (and people want him to remain), then he will win re-election.
Its pretty hard to claim that he is usurping anything when the voters directly get the choice of whether to keep him or not.