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Posted by Michael549 on Sun Nov 4 02:00:15 2007, in response to Re: Staten Island Railway to get New Trains, posted by Edwards! on Sat Nov 3 17:45:22 2007. From a previous message: "Then why did they bend over backwards some years ago to keep it part of the city?"Regardless of the secession movement or the mental images of Staten Island as separate planet -- Staten Island was, is and remains a part of New York City. From a recent article from the Staten Island Advance: "Today is Saturday, November 3. There are 58 days left in the year. On this date 14 years ago, in 1993, after years of study and debate, 65 percent of Staten Islanders voted to secede from New York City. The movement seriously ignited in 1989, after the U.S. Supreme Court declared New York City's form of government unconstitutional. The court ruled it was illegal for Staten Island to have an equal vote on a government body called the Board of Estimate as the more populous city boroughs. But Island leaders and residents were worried they would lose any meaningful voice in a new city government. Former State Sen. John J. Marchi (R-Staten Island) spearheaded an effort to advance Island independence. The state Legislature and then-Gov. Mario M. Cuomo subsequently approved a law creating a charter study commission on secession. Unhappy with city decisions -- a sentiment that reached a fevered pitch during the tenure of former Mayor David N. Dinkins -- Staten Islanders endorsed the secession referendum by a nearly 2 to 1 margin in 1993. In 1995, the movement to secede passed the state Senate, however, the initiative stalled in the Democrat-controlled state Assembly, where Speaker Sheldon Silver of Manhattan said that the bill must be accompanied by a home-rule message from the Democrat-controlled City Council, which was unwilling to pave the way for the break-up of the city, taking a significant amount of steam out of the movement. A poll conducted in the fall of 1997 by Quinnipiac College, now Quinnipiac University, showed that 55 percent of 561 Islanders surveyed no longer want to secede. So, how did you vote in the secession movement? And, if you had it to do all over again, would you vote differently a second time around?" Mike |
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