The Democrats on the Santa Ana City Council are not the only ones who have put a bogus term limits measure on the February ballot. As it turns out, their counterparts in Sacramento are also supporting an imbecilic term limits measure. And in doing so they have given Republican Insurance Commissioner Steve Poizner (pictured on the left) a chance to build up his profile, for an eventual run at Governor, by leading the charge against their selfish measure.
Here is what Poizner wrote about this measure in today’s O.C. Register’s editorial section, “Put simply, Prop. 93 is a trick. It is intentionally designed to fool the people into thinking they are voting to reduce terms for state legislators when, in fact, it contains a special loophole to give 42 termed-out incumbent politicians more time in office. In fact, it will dramatically increase terms for 80 percent of California’s legislators. Prop. 93 doubles the number of years a politician can serve in the Assembly from six to 12 years and increases Senate terms by 50 percent
What the state (Calif.) needs to do is go back to the non-paid part time legislature of the past, were rich men (and women) ran the show without the term limit BS we have now.
What great things have been accomplished in California since the advent of the full time highly paid legislature? And even after the cure-all corrective measure of term limits?
If there is anything in California that we need to limit, it is the amount of the state’s budget deficit and the amount of debt and borrowing that the state is allowed to incur.
It’s time for deficit limits of zero!