Term limits vote
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- June
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The state Senate will take up a vote on bills to limit statewide officeholders (gov, lt. gov, AG, comptroller) to 8 years in office and to restrict legislators to 8 years as Senate or Assembly leader and 6 as a committee chairman.
The prime sponsor is a freshman, Sen. Joe Griffo, R-Rome, but the measures have the blessing of Senate Majority Leader Joe Bruno, who has served in his post for 13 years.
When the bills were introduced in April, the 78-year-old Bruno acknowledged such a change wouldn’t impact him: “Term limits doesn’t mean much to me at this stage of my life. So it’s not hard to say `sure.’‘’
Bruno’s counterpart, Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver, D-Manhattan, has expressed no interest in either bill.
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Jay Gallagher has covered Albany for Gannett News Service since 1984 and has been Albany Bureau chief since 1989. He`s a native of the Boston area and likes to point out that in this millennium, the score is Red Sox 1 championship, the Yankees 0. 
Cara Matthews has been a statehouse correspondent in the Albany Bureau since August 2005. Prior to that, she covered Putnam County government and politics at The Journal News for nearly five years. Before that, she worked at newspapers in Connecticut and covered the state Legislature for one of them. 
