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Philip Blumel: It’s going to be a landslide on Tuesday. Hi. I’m Philip Blumel, President of US Term Limits. Welcome to the No Uncertain Terms Podcast for the week of November 5th, 2018. You heard it here first. It’s going to be a wave election on Tuesday, with incumbents winning almost every time. Sure, it’s
Phil Blumel: Fiscal health, how does your state rank? Hi, I’m Philip Blumel, President of US Term Limits. Welcome to the No Uncertain Terms Podcast for the week of October 15th, 2018. Your sanctuary from partisan politics. Phil Blumel: A new study from the Mercatus Center at George Mason University ranks the 50 states according
2018 Term Limits Initiative Election Results Across the USA California | Colorado | Florida | Hawaii | Illinois | Missouri | Nebraska | Ohio | New York | Tennessee | Texas | Wisconsin Term limits initiatives across the country win nearly every time by an overwhelming margin. From our research this year, nearly 40 ballot
By Staff. The year 2018 will go down in history as the resurgence of the term limits movement. A record-shattering 405 candidates nationwide that are running for office this cycle and will appear on the general election ballot have signed a pledge calling for congressional term limits, and another 36 candidates have signed a pledge to
Nashville voters enacted term limits 24 years ago. The Metro Council seeks repeal for the seventh time. by Paul Jacob For an example of what populists mean when they say politicians sometimes refuse to listen to voters, look no further than the consolidated government of Nashville and Davidson County, Tenn. Twenty-four years ago, voters there
U.S. Term Limits enthusiastically endorses Proposition E to implement a six-year term limit on the Arlington City Council and Mayor. This term limit would be the strongest in Texas and one of the strongest in America. It would curb corruption and maintain accountability, while ensuring fresh faces and ideas have a prominent role in city
Philip Blumel: Happy Term Limits Day. There is no such thing as Term Limits Day, but maybe there should be. Philip Blumel: It seems like America has a holiday for nearly everything else under the sun. For instance today, October 22nd, is national Nut Day. Yeah that’s the nutritious snack I’m talking about, not the
by Paul Jacob Last week, I became so distracted watching the flocks of pigs soaring through the clouds overhead that I nearly missed the Chicago Tribune report, headlined “Bill Daley, whose brother and father ran Chicago for 43 years, backs a term limit for mayor.” It is no surprise that this latest Daley launched his bid for
by Paul Jacob We have a choice: Govern ourselves or allow legislators and judges in our federal and state capitals to rule over us. I much prefer the former. Give me a republic in which important individual rights have been constitutionally secured and democratic elections established. In reality, that democracy part is as imperiled as
There’s an informative and humorous little book called “Forgotten Founder, Drunken Prophet: The Life of Luther Martin” by Bill Kauffman. Martin was a representative of Maryland at the Constitutional Convention in 1787 and an example — exasperating to many — of the so-called anti-federalists who feared the new Constitution would centralize new and nearly unlimited
