I have mixed feelings about term limits. CA has term limits and it got worse. All they do is jump from job to job and it is an unaccountable faceless bureaucracy running the show. I wonder now if that was by design or an unintended consequence they just took advantage of - who knows?
Several years ago, I talked with someone who was a lobbyist in Sacramento for the insurance industry. She said she hated term limits because just as people were getting up to speed, they would term out and she had to start from ground zero to get them to understand the basics. She had worked pre-term limits and said while there were challenges, people understood the issues.
Today, representatives tend to be 10 miles wide and 10 inches deep on any topic, which is a big part of the problem.
I would like to see term limits expanded to include something like you have to sit out a couple of cycles before you can run and no sitting on lobbying boards. It is not your career.
I have mixed feelings about term limits. CA has term limits and it got worse. All they do is jump from job to job and it is an unaccountable faceless bureaucracy running the show. I wonder now if that was by design or an unintended consequence they just took advantage of - who knows?
Several years ago, I talked with someone who was a lobbyist in Sacramento for the insurance industry. She said she hated term limits because just as people were getting up to speed, they would term out and she had to start from ground zero to get them to understand the basics. She had worked pre-term limits and said while there were challenges, people understood the issues. Today, representatives tend to be 10 miles wide and 10 inches deep on any topic, which is a big part of the problem.
I would like to see term limits expanded to include something like you have to sit out a couple of cycles before you can run and no sitting on lobbying boards. It is not your career.
In fairness... California is not exactly the paragon of this country in terms of who would be running for office.
I do not disagree, but 30 years ago, prior to enacting term limits, things were a bit more, shall we say, balanced.
Calif has some of the worst voter fraud in the country.
That's the main reason these criminals and traitors keep getting elected over and over again.