The New York City Council has the power to repeal the term-limits law, several legal experts agree.
Legislators are expected to repeal the term-limits law by a comfortable margin today, but the votes required to override a promised veto from Gov. Dirk Kempthorne, a Republican, are less certain.
An attempt to repeal the term-limits law and find a slot for him on the ballot would force a complicated and bitter debate, the last thing New York City needs at this time of crisis.
But other leaders in the Assembly who are close to Mr. Silver said the speaker is not likely to let a bill that would repeal the term-limits law for the mayor come to a vote.
On Thursday, a City Council committee rejected, 5-to-4, a bill that would have repealed the term limits that are forcing at least 35 Council members from office this year for the first time.
Republicans in both chambers are pushing to repeal the long-term care program for good, not just suspend it, but the administration is resisting.
As legal counselor to Mr. Bloomberg, Mr. Crowell may be best remembered for aggressively promoting the mayor's effort to repeal the city's term limits law so he could serve a third term.
Rather than try to shove the repeal of term limits down the throat of the citizenry through a back door by way of the City Council, what should done by proponents of this measure is to call for a special election only for this issue.
Absent was any hint of the hostility that animated their primary debates, when Ms. Quinn said Mr. de Blasio "will say anything" to get votes, and he accused her of cutting "a back-room deal" to repeal the city's term limits.
