At the request of several Council Members, this Tuesday the Fullerton City Council will discuss the issue of term limits, and if the matter should be placed on the next voter ballot. How many years is enough? Some say 8, others 12, Mr. Dick Jones says NO term limits. Don Bankhead has been on the Council for 22 years and counting. Click here to read the rest of this article.
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Oh no, I agree with Dick Jones.
Term limits imo simply prevent lawmakers from getting good at their jobs and forces them to rely on staff members.
Maybe that works. We have some very good professional legislative staff and city staff members in this state and our electeds seem to be a bunch of pretty faced glad-handers. Term limits might not be such a bad idea after all.
If we take term limits to its logical conclusion we make the legislators part-time as well and limit the legislative session to a few months of a couple of days a week. Remove all pay and require employers to keep legislators on their payroll just like they do the National Guard. Weekend legislator warriors!
This would go a long way to balance the State Budget and reward legislators appropriately for the good work they’ve done.
#1, first you say you agree with Jones (gag) then you proceed to outline the benefits of term limits and their logical externsion. Have you made up your mind yet?
Let me address your lone argument against term limits with the example of Jones himself. After 12 years the man is an ineveterate staff stooge, and if anything he’s only gotten worse. People mistake his rudeness, bluster, and spoonerisms for good ‘ol home spun honesty and commonsense. What they don’t stop to consider is his voting record and the percentage of times (almost never) he votes agasinst what the staff proposes.
Jones is hardly any different from most garden variety councilmembers, and fills in nicely as an example of an entrenched local politician whose stoogery has become calcified. Some start out that way;some get worse. But the common characteristic is that these types confuse setting policy for their staffs and simply ratifying what is put in front of them. It is these long-termers who come to identify most closely with the city manager and the bureaucracy – instead of the people who elected them.
12 years is more than enough. There are plenty of qualified people who avoid politics because of the perceived invincibilty of encumbents.