Mike Bloomberg proved money is empirical this month by crushing the lawsuit against his third term run. Earlier in the year Mike Bloomberg elbowed others in the inner circle of the City Council, whom were also on the way out from too many terms, to over-ride the two previous public referendums and toss out term limits. A lawsuit claiming this disenfranchised the voting process was ignored and the courts decided that Blacks could still run for office so everything is all right.

A group of elected officials, voters, prospective candidates and advocacy groups have challenged an amendment to the city's term limits law permitting Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg and city council members to serve 12 years in office rather than eight.

The action was filed in the Eastern District in Brooklyn Monday by more than two dozen plaintiffs including former Staten Island Borough President and Congressman Guy Molinari; Public Advocate Betsy Gotbaum; New York City Comptroller William C. Thompson Jr., who considered running as a mayoral candidate in 2009 prior to the amendment of the term-limits law; council members Letitia James, Working Families Party-Brooklyn, Bill de Blasio, D-Brooklyn, and Charles Barron, D-Brooklyn; voters from all five boroughs; the New York Public Interest Research Group Inc., and Virginia-based group U.S. Term Limits.