ICE Amendment on Term Limits Fails at DA

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Resolved, that the UFT unequivocally oppose the city council’s bill to extend term limits and the UFT will seriously consider withholding endorsements and COPE money from any Council member who votes in favor of this legislation that circumvents the will of the people.

This ICE amendment calling on the UFT to ask its supporters on the City Council to turn down the term limits extension that will give Bloomberg 4 more years was turned down at the DA.

ICE's Lisa North, chapter leaders of PS 3 in Brooklyn started the ball rolling. But due to a procedural question, James Eterno made the amendment with an excellent argument.

In a Unity packed Delegate Assembly, it garnered between 25- 30% of the vote (there was no count,) signs that even some Unity delegates voted for it. Are they also getting fed up with the constant UFT retreats?

Here is a jpg of the hard copy of Education Notes I gave out at the DA focusing on the term limits issue, an abridged version of a previous post. If you are interested in distributing it to your school email me at normsco@gmail.com and I'll send you a pdf or mail you a hard copy.

Note: read our previous posts on the term limits battle in the UFT. Elizabeth Green's report at Gotham is here.