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To: somethingwicked who wrote (373)6/27/1999 2:38:00 PM
From: Tom Clarke  Read Replies (2) | Respond to of 769670
 
Term limits sounds good on its face. However, there are two things that niggle at me: 1. To limit terms is unconstitutional. 2. We would lose a lot of good people unnecessarily. Imagine if Henry Hyde had been term-limited out. As it is, we're losing Tom Coburn and Helen Chenowith. It seems a shame. Maybe we could limit terms on chairmanships and do something about franking privileges and other perks of incumbency.

Your guy shouldn't have reneged, though. If he pledged to do that, I don't see how he looks his people in the eye anymore.



To: somethingwicked who wrote (373)6/27/1999 11:35:00 PM
From: Ellen  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 769670
 
Long-term politicians are why we need term limits.

Although this may come across as facetious (lacking tone of voice with just the written word), it's not intended that way.

But we do have term limits. It's called the vote. Sounds good, in theory, doesn't it?

Unfortunately, it doesn't seem to actually work that way in real life. Look at Jesse Helms. He's still in office. Ugh!


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