DON’T TOUCH TERM LIMITS!
Executive Director, Don’t Touch Term Limits!
WE ARE NON-PARTISAN.
WE NEITHER ENDORSE NOR OPPOSE CANDIDATES
This site is to provide information.
There is new action in the movement to limit the terms of federal legislators.
U. S. Term Limits (http://www.termlimits.org/) is circulating a pledge to support the Constitutional amendment to limit Senators to two 6 year terms, and Representatives to three 2 year terms.
We support that effort, and urge anyone willing to persistently pursue the candidates in your District to sign the pledge, to let us know.
Contact me at koklaw@gmail.com.
Only one has signed so far, Rocky Raczkowski in the 9th District.
My state representative, Tim Bledsoe, has not even completed his first term, and apparently already feels himself to be indispensable to the people of Michigan.
The voters overwhelmingly approved term limits of three (3) two year terms in the state House, and two (2) four year terms in the State Senate.
In the first “questionnaire” (titled: HELP ME MAKE MICHIGAN WORK FOR YOU! mailed to his constituents, at taxpayer expense, no doubt, the following appears:
“Would you support a constitutional amendment to change term limits from a maximum of 14 years of service in either chamber combined?”
I wonder how Mr. Bledsoe feels about this?
The only people I see who want to mess with our term limits are the politicians who are limited, and the special interest groups who don’t want the expense of having to buy the loyalty of a new group every 6 or 8 years.
So, as Executive Director of Don’t Touch Term Limits, I am asking each State Senate and State House candidate, and the gubernatorial candidates, to sign this pledge:
I pledge that I will do nothing to change Michigan’s term limits law.
I could not make it much simpler than that.
I need your help getting this pledge out to the candidates, and sending back to me either the signed pledge or rejection.
I will be happy to link to candidate’s web sites, but no weasely wimp out reasons for not signing will be posted on this site.
There is never a guarantee that the next set of rascals will be an improvement over the prior set, but at least there is a chance.
If you think our state legislators need to stay longer, in order to learn how to be effective, I ask: What is there about the current group that leads you to believe they will improve with age?
