For immediate release
August 22, 2018
Contact: Stacey Selleck
Email: sselleck@termlimits.com
Phone: (202) 261-3532
Nye Vows to File School Board Term Limits in 2019 Session
Matt Nye, candidate for Florida State House District 52, today slammed the decision by Circuit Judge John Cooper to remove Amendment 8 from the fall ballot, while vowing to file a constitutional amendment for school board term limits in 2019 if he’s elected to the Florida House.
“This was the wrong decision, because the job of a judge is to interpret law, not make it,” Nye said. “If elected to the Florida House, my first priority will be to file a joint resolution to enact 8-year term limits for school board members. The people of Florida deserve a vote on term limits and I will work to secure it for them.”
Nye is currently challenging State Representative Thad Altman in the Republican primary for House District 52. Nye also signed the U.S. Term Limits pledge vowing to defend Florida’s 8-year term limits; Altman opposes term limits and refuses to sign the pledge.
Nye’s school board term limits proposal would require three-fifths approval in both chambers, then 60 percent approval from Florida voters to become part of the state Constitution. Term limits for state lawmakers in Florida were approved by 77 percent of voters and a 2018 poll by McLaughlin and Associates shows that 82 percent of Florida voters back school board term limits.
Term limits is not only the most popular but also the most bipartisan issue in America. It has backing from both presidents Barack Obama and Donald Trump.
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U.S. Term Limits is the largest grassroots term limits advocacy group in the country. We connect term limits supporters with their legislators and work to pass term limits at all levels of government, particularly on the U.S. Congress. Find out more at termlimits.org.
