Former Public Advocate Mark Green is forming a coalition of civic and labor leaders to block Mayor Bloomberg from changing term limits, The Post has learned.
Green described Bloomberg’s attempt to serve four more years by getting the City Council to pass a bill as “a Putin power grab,” referring to Russian iron-willed Prime Minister Vladimir Putin.
“After seven years agreeing to a two-term limit, Mayor Bloomberg‘s potential flip-flop is outraging a lot of civic and labor leaders who I think will come together to oppose such a Putin power grab,” Green said.
He is all too aware of the billionaire mayor’s near-limitless resources, having lost to him in the 2001 mayoral race, the most expensive municipal election to that point.
The mayor tore through $74 million to Green’s $16 million.
Green said civic and labor leaders at last week’s Democratic National Convention in Denver began discussing how to respond.