For immediate release
August 27, 2018
Contact: Scott Tillman, U.S. Term Limits
Phone: (321) 345-7455
stillman@termlimits.com
Strong Support for Term Limits in Florida SD-16 Race
Melbourne, FL – U.S. Term Limits (USTL), the leader in the national, non-partisan movement to limit terms for elected officials, is gathering support from elected officials across Florida. Its mission is to advocate for term limits on all elected officials. State senate candidates Leo Karruli and Ed Hooper, of district 16, have committed to defend term limits in the Florida legislature by signing the Term Limits pledge. In 2015, former State Rep. Amanda Murphy, also a candidate in the district 16 state senate race, signed the term limits defender pledge and received the “Champion of Term Limits” award.
USTL President, Philip Blumel, commented on Karruli’s, Hooper’s, and Murphy’s pledges, “Leo’s, Ed’s, and Amanda’s support of term limits shows that there are individuals who are willing to listen to the majority of voters who want term limits. The people are best served by citizen legislators, not career politicians.”
The U.S. Term Limits pledge is provided to candidates and elected officials statewide. It reads, “I pledge to take no action that would aid or abet the abolition or lengthening of term limits to which elected officials in Florida are subject.”
Thanks to term limits, Florida also sees remarkably high rates of open seat races and incumbents who face primary challengers.
According to the last nationwide poll on term limits conducted by McLaughlin & Associates, conducted in January 2018, term limits enjoys wide bipartisan support. McLaughlin’s analysis states, “Support for term limits is broad and strong across all political, geographic and demographic groups. An overwhelming 82% of voters approve of term limits.”
View Karruli’s signed pledge here.
View Hooper’s signed pledge here.
View Murphy’s champion plaque presentation here.
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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.