“Unprecedented, undemocratic and unlawful”: So the executive director of the city Charter Revision Commission describes the last-minute plot by the City Council and shifty Brooklyn hack Frank Seddio to keep pro-housing measures off the November ballot.

The scheme, apparently blocked because word got out, turned on Seddio (the former Kings County Democratic boss) leading the Board of Elections to invalidate the measures due to allegedly confusing language.

These charter proposals would give mayors more authority over housing development by reducing the (completely unofficial) veto power that individual councilmembers now exercise of rezoning and related issues in their districts.

The council appoints BOE commissioners (who are nominated by county Democratic and Republican party bosses)

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