Talk of Term Limits is Back, With Tea Party Support
The talk of term limits is back, in a convergence of the “goo-goos” and the revolutionaries.
The goo-goos — the good government types — think the turnover would produce a stream of fresh policy ideas. Stepping gingerly around the imminent 12th anniversary of Rick Perry’s ascension to governor, they are promoting various constitutional term limits on statewide and legislative officials in Texas, who currently are allowed to serve as long as voters can stand them.
The revolutionaries — that’s the Tea Party folk — arrived at limits with a different but also traditional reason: They want to replace the current bums with ...
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Matt Taylor
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Rob Turk via Texas Tribune on Facebook
Absolutely.
Marci Claypool Perry via Texas Tribune on Facebook
term limits 2 terms 5 year each...
Rudy Oeftering via Texas Tribune on Facebook
I see the point of term limits. My concern with it is that you have an entrenched bureacracy with out term limits. They are enpowered by inexperience of elected officials. The value of elected tenure is often knowing which file cabinet to open.