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• Term limits review commission public meeting

  
  Off the Kuff — Authority: 149
  As you know, outgoing Mayor Bill White appointed a commission in December to study the possibility of making changes to Houston’s term limits ordinance. Via Mary Benton , the commission will have an open session for public input on this next week: Wednesday, February 10, 2010 7:00 p.m. City Council Chamber ...
  2 days ago

• Distinguished gentleman

  
  Like The Dew — Authority: 126
  Watch CNN one night. Or just read the legislative minutes from any body of government. If you are in the South you will hear the distinguished gentleman take his position in front of his podium and microphone and proclaim (in my best southern man drawl), “I would like to thank Ms. Beam’s 3rd grade class for their ...
  5 days ago

• Ignatieff sketches out doable Senate reform ideas

  
  CKA Canadian News — Authority: 166
  Liberal Leader Michael Ignatieff laid out some broad Senate reform ideas Sunday, including term limits and a curb on the prime ministers ability to stack the Upper House with his own picks.
  1 week ago

• A Promise Was Made. Will It Be Kept?

  
  Friends For Fullerton's Future — Authority: 132
  More than a year ago a majority of the Fullerton City Council agreed to put the idea of a three term limit to a plebescite. Councilmembers Sharon Quirk, Pam Keller and Shawn Nelson were for it; Dick Jones and Don Bankhead were against it. Dick and I arent going anywhere... At the time we ran this post , which ...
  1 week ago

• Power Grabbing for Dummies - Adios Governor Dave

  
  ARRA News Service — Authority: 524
  by William Warren: by Carter Clews: : Make no mistake about it: Dave Freudenthal is a jolly good fellow. He helped pay his own way through college. He’s a lay leader in his hometown church. He and his wife, Nancy, have four children . . . . And, according to his own gubernatorial website, he just loves ...
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• Term limits expel expert politicians when they’re needed most

  
  The Nevada Sagebrush — Authority: 535
  For all these reasons and more, term limits are bad; however, the most important reason will be seen in the next year. This last session some of the greats of the state legislature such as John Carpenter (R), Bernie Anderson (D), Sheila Leslie (D) and Barbara Buckley (D) will be forced to retire due to term limits and ...
  2 weeks ago

• Coburn on the Issues

  
  The Otter Limits — Authority: 132
  I have not done one of these in a really long time so what better time to start then as the 2010 mid-term election system starts to ramp up. These are the positions of Tom Coburn who is running for re-election to the U.S. Senate from Oklahoma. Abortion Opposed to it. Very pro-life. Gun Rights Supports gun ...
  2 weeks ago

• Again with KBH and term limits

  
  Off the Kuff — Authority: 149
  You do have to admire her lack of self-consciousness . Contending that Gov. Rick Perry has used the state as his personal playground, Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchison unveiled a government reform plan Monday that includes term limits for Texas governors and restrictions for lobbyists. In announcing her proposal, ...
  2 weeks ago

• Staff service time limits for California public employees?

  
  Orange Punch — Authority: 569
  A recent blog post on the Brown senate race unexpectedly spurred a debate from some of our readers on the success or lack thereof of term limits in California. I’ve done a lot of thinking about term limits lately and I don’t think they have done much to help Californians. They have became a gimmick that for an ...
  2 weeks ago

• Election Reform

  
  novatownhall blog — Authority: 426
  There are two major problems with political campaigns these days.  The first is outside money.  To fix that problem, campaign finance laws should allow only voters registered to vote in the election in which a candidate is running, to contribute to that campaign.  No PACs, no Unions, no corporations.  Only ...
  2 weeks ago

• Steve Walker Addresses Washington’s SOBs

  
  Sense on Cents — Authority: 552
  With the surge of Scott Brown in the MA Senate race, the Democrats are licking their wounds. The Republicans will likely parade in splendor. The fact is both political crowds are increasingly out of touch with America. Washington is much more the problem than the solution. The Wall Street Journal provides insights ...
  3 weeks ago

• Baker announces support for balanced budget amendment & term limits

  
  Arkansas Tonight — Authority: 118
  No huge surprise here and no scandal: Gilbert Bakers major announcement was that he supports a balanced budget amendment and a term limit of two terms for the US Senate. These are basic conservative principals that I think most voters in Arkansas, right and left, would agree with. No big surprise, Sen. Baker. My only ...
  3 weeks ago

• Illinois RLC Endorses Andrzejewski, Ratowitz

  
  Republican Liberty Caucus — Authority: 512
  The Republican Liberty Caucus of Illinois has endorsed Adam Andrzejewski for Illinois Governor and David Ratowitz for Congress in District 5. The primary for both races is coming up rapidly: February 2, 2010. According to Illinois RLC Vice-Chair John Bambenek, after thorough research into all the candidates, Adam ...
  3 weeks ago

• On a side note regarding Commissioners Court

  
  Off the Kuff — Authority: 149
  Just a quick point to note regarding Commissioners Court and its various perks. In a few months, we’re going to hear from Mayor White’s term limits commission regarding suggested alterations to Houston’s term limits law. When we do, we’ll be sure to hear wails and cries from the usual suspects about how ...
  4 weeks ago

• Laguna Hills city council term limit ballot measure

  
  Orange Punch — Authority: 569
  Barbara Kogerman, a candidate for city council in Laguna Hills took initial steps to get a term limits ballot measure on the ballot for 2010. Term limits have been popular around Orange County for some time, I am not so sure they are working and would hope that voters would just vote bad elected officials out of ...
  4 weeks ago

• From the “It’s good to be the czar” files

  
  Off the Kuff — Authority: 149
  Every few years we get an article like this one about how the sweetest gig in the state is being a Harris County Commissioner. Commissioners may have the safest jobs in Harris County politics. No incumbent has lost an election since 1974. “Commissioners, from a political perspective, are here for perpetuity,” ...
  4 weeks ago

• City Council Candidate Barbara Kogerman Launches Laguna Hills Term Limits Initiative

  
  Orange Juice — Authority: 150
  FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASEDATE: Jan. 11, 2010CONTACT: Barbara Kogerman (949) 855-9889  or (949) 422-6203 (cell)City Council Put on NoticeCity Council Candidate Barbara Kogerman Launches Laguna Hills Term Limits InitiativeTwenty years is way too long for politicians to remain on city council, according to Laguna Hills ...
  4 weeks ago

• Where’s Dr. Jekyll when you need him?

  
  dustbury.com — Authority: 560
  McGehee (8 January) looks for Hyde to be tanned: Back in 1995, after his party took over the majority in the House of Representatives on the strength of the Contract With America — of which one of the points was congressional term limits — Rep. Henry Hyde took to the floor to argue against term limits by ...
  4 weeks ago

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