New group strives to protect term limits in West Palm Beach
From The Palm Beach Post
WEST PALM BEACH — The group pushing to extend mayoral term limits can now expect some organized push-back.
Businessmen Richard Shepherd and Jon Fogt formed a political action committee on Wednesday called Keep West Palm Term Limits. The group will raise money between now and November to educate voters on why they believe an eight-year limit for mayors must be preserved.
The formation comes a day after a majority of the city commissioners said they would be willing to place a question on the November ballot to let voters decide whether to give Mayor Lois Frankel and her successors a chance to try for a third term, even though the petition drive to extend term limits is failing.
“We passed a resolution in 1991 that put term limits on mayors for eight years, and there’s a really good reason for that,” Shepherd said.
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U.S Term Limits Press Release
While taxpayers have struggled to survive one of the longest, deepest recessions in American history, government has continued to grow recklessly – by unsustainable leaps and bounds. It seems no matter which party is in charge (and no matter what promises they make on the campaign trail) nothing ever changes.
Part of the reason is that many of our self-styled reformers -- such as Gubernatorial candidate Bill McCollum -- are “reformers in name only," career politicians who are just using an issue to advance his or her political interests.
A professional politician for the last 33 years (a span that covers 14 elections and 23 years spent in taxpayer-funded offices), McCollum claims to be an advocate for term limits – which Florida voters have enthusiastically embraced for both state and federal offices.
Unfortunately, this is one of many instances in which McCollum’s rhetoric does not match his record.
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| USTL would like to thank Norman for his efforts to spread the word about term limits. We encourage other supporters to follow his lead and let America know that we are tired of the career politicians running our country. Enough is enough. |
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Senator Jim DeMint fights for Congressional Term Limits
Recently, Sen. DeMint introduced a "Term Limits for All" bill that would serve as an amendment to the U.S. Constitution if it were to gain enough support in Congress and among the American people. The bill would finally put an end an era of permanent politicians on Capitol Hill by limiting House members to three terms, and senators to two. So far Sens. Tom Coburn (R-Okla.), Kay Baily Hutchison (R-Texas) and Sam Brownback (R-Kan.) have signed on as cosponsors of the bill. Continue Reading
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