City Councilman and Mayoral candidate Anthony Merante, with supporters, announcing his name will be on Term Limts ballot line in November
Newly created Restore Term Limits Line Will Appear On The Ballot in Nov.
Yonkers 6th District Councilmember and mayoral candidate Anthony Merante has succeeded in getting sufficient petition signatures to create a new political party line for this November’s Election in Yonkers- The Restore Term Limits ballot line. In the choice for Yonkers Mayor Merante will now appear on both the Republican and Restore Term Limits lines.
Anthony Merante has made term limits a cornerstone of his mayoral campaign. In addition, to creating the Restore Term Limits line, Merante led a petition process to add a referendum to this year’s ballot. This initiative was undertaken in alliance with Democrat, Republican, and independent voters organized to submit the restoration of term limits to the November 2023 ballot. The group collected nearly 5,000 signatures, and goes to the City Clerk’s Office, and the City Council for review and approval.
Merante voted against extending the terms for mayor and City Council from 3- 4-year term to 4- 4-year terms In November 2022. Merante said “Restoring term limits for Yonkers voters to decide is not a Republican or Democratic issue, but one of moral integrity. We must free our city from the cancer of cronyism. Although the courts may have found the City Council had the legal right to extend their own terms and that of the mayor that doesn’t mean it was moral or correct. That move was self-serving and a slap in the face to democracy. It is time elected officials respect the will of the people.”
Merante concluded, “In all our lives we do some things we regret. For me it was voting with the Spano administration to extend term limits for the first time from the original 2 terms to 3. That was a huge mistake. I naively believed their empty assurances that it would only be a one-time extension similar to Mayor Mike Bloomberg in NYC. I underestimated their lust for power. What’s their next move after 16 years? Eliminating term limits altogether? Yonkers is not Cuba or North Korea. We refuse to be ruled by a family dynasty with an absolute grip on power. We must return democracy back to Yonkers. When elected mayor, I pledge to reconstitute the Charter Revision Commission and look to return all terms back to the original two terms set by voters. “
Democrats and Independent voters who won’t vote on the republican line now can vote for Merante on the Term Limits line. Merante concluded, “In all our lives we do some things we regret. For me it was voting with the Spano administration to extend term limits the first time from the original 2 terms to 3. That was a huge mistake. I naively believed their empty assurances that it would only be a one-time extension similar to Mayor Mike Bloomberg in NYC. I underestimated their lust for power. What’s their next move after 16 years? Eliminating term limits altogether? Yonkers is not Cuba or North Korea. We refuse to be ruled by a family dynasty with an absolute grip on power. We must return democracy back to Yonkers. When elected mayor, I pledge to reconstitute the Charter Revision Commission and look to return all terms back to the original two terms set by voters.”
