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Having decided that New York City needs him beyond what the term-limits law allows, Rudolph W. Giuliani summoned the three mayoral candidates this week and laid out Plan A and Plan B. If they did not agree to let him stay in office an extra three months, he would seek re-election on the Conservative Party ballot. Yesterday, less than 24 hours after those private meetings, Michael R. Bloomberg, the Republican candidate, and Mark Green, one of the two Democratic candidates, announced that they would support the proposal to extend Mr. Giuliani's term by three months. But Fernando Ferrer, who will face Mr. Green in a Democratic runoff in two weeks, said that he could not — although he went out of his way to say that the mayor's "leadership and experience during this crisis have been exemplary." The mayor's either-or proposal knocked the city's political world off its axis yesterday,..

-- Anonymous, September 28, 2001