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Bloviator Alec Baldwin has picked a new fight — with Council Speaker Christine Quinn.
The “30 Rock” actor ripped Quinn as unworthy to be mayor because she overturned term limits to extend Mayor Bloomberg’s tenure.
“Quinn has that blood on her hands,” Baldwin said when asked about the mayor’s race by CNN’s Piers Morgan. “She was the one who singlehandedly killed the voter referendum at Bloomberg’s behest and gave him a third term.”
“In terms of her political aspirations, she’s a very untrustworthy person. She’s very self-seeking.”
Baldwin said he supports Public Advocate Bill de Blasio.
But instead of talking up de Blasio in the Thursday-night interview, he immediately unleashed his fury at Quinn.
He also said he disliked Quinn’s candidacy because he perceives her as Bloomberg’s “handpicked successor” and said, “I resent that to some degree, that Bloomberg feels he needs to control the fate of City Hall and Gracie Mansion beyond his term.”
Baldwin attacked Quinn on what is clearly one of her biggest liabilities in the mayoral race: agreeing to undo the will of the voters by having the City Council vote to allow Bloomberg to run for a third term. The council members also voted to extend their own terms.
Former city Comptroller Bill Thompson, who slammed Bloomberg over the term-limits extensions when he was the 2009 Democratic nominee, intends to revive the issue against Quinn in the Democratic primary.
“The people of New York have not forgotten that they were betrayed on the issue of term limits and the vote Speaker Quinn had in overturning them,” said Thompson spokesman Brendan Brosh.
Baldwin himself flirted with the idea of running for mayor. But he said he was tied up with acting commitments and added that spending 18 months raising campaign donations didn’t appeal to him.
“It’s something I would have loved to have done, truly,” he said.