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Okay. Barring extraordinary circumstances, this will be the last item here on Lenora Fulani this week.

Even as she capped off an announcement that she’s going to run for mayor and repudiate her anti-Semitic comments from 18 years, Fulani pointedly refused to retreat from another controversial position:

that it’s OK for therapists to sleep with their patients. It’s something that Fulani’s mentor, Fred Newman, had previously said was acceptable.

During an interview on New York 1 News last night, Fulani said the issue was too complex to be discussed accurately at that moment.

“There’s a whole dialogue in post-modern psychology that engages the problem with boundaries, the issues with boundaries," she said. "It’s an important discussion. It’s an intellectual discussion. To reduce it to whether or not whether the patient and, or Fred, and a patient sleeps together, it’s absurd.”

Another highlight of her appearance came when she attacked people who had previously asked her repudiate her anti-Semitic marks.

Fulani said she didn’t because “I thought the people who were making these demands were doing it for reasons that I didn’t support,” dismissing them as "political attacks."

The entire interview can be seen here.  read more »

]]> http://www.observer.com/2007/fulani-defends-social-therapy#comments Politics Harry Kresky Lenora Fulani Fri, 10 Aug 2007 10:25:24 -0400 Azi Paybarah 56807 at http://www.observer.com Term Limits Take http://www.observer.com/node/28180
The Politicker is prone to rough Mondays; none of us made it to the term limits forum last night.

But thanks to a Politicker reader and comments section maven, we've got a little something to spark discussion. Please not that this is his take, not to be confused with The Politicker's take, which doesn't exist, particularly because...we weren't there.

"Last night at the LGBT Center, the Stonewall Democrats, VID and several other clubs hosted a forum on term limits.

"Unfortunately, the term-limited-about-to-be-unemployed (and absolutely against term limits) councilmember Bill Perkins was absent because he forgot it was was his anniversary. Gale Brewer presented her belief that term limits should be expanded to 12 years due to an Epiphany she had when a small non-profit she cares about to hired a lobbyist partially because of the turnover created by term limits. None of the other panelists, Dick Dadey of Citizens Union, Harry Kresky of the Independence Party and Deborah Goldberg of the Brennen Center seemed to buy that argument.

"The full audience at the Center featured a disproportionate number of Independence Party members, who argued that term limits should be part of a broader initiative including non-partisan elections. The Indies undermined the argument that most people in the audience actually agreed with (by informal poll of the moderator NY1's Davidson Golden), which is that whatever your position on term limits, the Council shouldn't override the will of the people, which passed term limits by ballot initiative."

--EnWhySeaWonk

UPDATE: Azi also attended the forum, and offers his take at The Fifth Estate.
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