State Senator Liz Krueger, a Democrat from the East Side with a penchant for good-government policy, thinks there’s something wrong with how the debate about term limits is playing out in the public sphere.

“Ron Lauder opposes. Bloomberg supports. News at 11,” she said sarcastically. “Thank you! It’s nice to hear from you too, now can we hear from the other eight million people?”

Krueger went on, “No disrespect to either of them, but they’re two people. This is a city of eight million. Should two guys be the determining factor, rather than the actual public?”

Bloomberg is pretty popular in her district, she said, which is full of reform-minded Democrats who work in business. 

And if there were a referendum, Bloomberg would probably win, if he spent as much money swaying public opinion as Lauder, Kreuger said. But she added that it gets away from her main point.

“It’s supposed to be so much bigger than the individuals we’re looking at,” she said.

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