Sparse Attendance at Weprin's Term Limits Press Conference
By Azi Paybarah
September 15, 2008 | 9:28 a.m.
I showed up just after the start of the press conference David Weprin held yesterday to express opposition to extending term limits legislatively.
It was to ignore the fact that there were only two other City Council members with him: Bill de Blasio and Eric Gioia. (Ken Moltner of the Ron Lauder-funded group Citizens for Term Limits and Susan Lerner of Common Cause also attended.)
As they spoke, you could hear City Council Speaker Christine Quinn speaking at a rally for same-sex marriage in City Hall Park.
In the clip above, Weprin cautions against reading too much into attendance at the event. Also, de Blasio and Weprin did not rule out running for re-election if term limits are extended.
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