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Another Political Crook Thwarted by Term Limits

Florida Representative Dwayne Taylor tumbles from grace after being found guilty in federal court for fraud related to illegal use of his campaign contributions as a personal slush fund. Taylor, of Daytona, embezzled donations to finance his lavish lifestyle including his wedding at the Waldorf-Astoria in Manhattan, a honeymoon in Hawaii, and a Mercedes-Benz. “This

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Term Limit States Ranked Best as Career Politicians Flop

Surprise, surprise. A brand new report says states with term-limited legislatures are outperforming their career politician counterparts. According to George Mason University’s “Ranking the States by Fiscal Condition 2017” report, 8 of the 15 fiscally strongest states have legislative term limits. When one considers that only 15 out of 50 states have legislative term limits,

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Two More U.S. Term Limits Pledgers Elected to Congress

This week, the nation watched with anticipation as special elections for Congress took place in South Carolina and Georgia. What the mainstream media didn’t report, however, is that both winning candidates are term limits advocates who’ve signed the U.S. Term Limits Pledge! The big winners – Ralph Norman and Karen Handel – have committed to

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Florida Lawmaker Cheating Term Limits

  A sneaky politician in Florida is cheating term limits by running for re-election despite having reached his eight-year limit. James Grant (R-Tampa) was elected to the Florida House of Representatives in 2010 and is term-limited in 2018. He has not only filed to run for a fifth consecutive term in 2018, but Grant says

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Calling Hatch Home

Back in 2012, U.S. Senator Orrin Hatch pledged that, if elected, his current six-year term would be his last. On Election Day 2018, Hatch will be 84 years old — and have spent more than half his life in Washington. Still, Utah’s senior senator just announced he intends to run for re-election for an eighth

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Lifetime Judges or Lifetime Congressmen

The Supreme Court hearings has caught a lot of people’s attention. There is a lot of talk about how the appointment is for life, and there is nothing you can do about the justice once they are in, as they are appointed for life. As nominee Gorsuch said during questioning “Judges aren’t legislators. We serve

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“Lifetime” Tenure Judges Still Serve Less Than Politicians

This week, the Senate Judiciary Committee grilled Judge Neil Gorsuch, President Trump’s nominee for the U.S. Supreme Court. Talk about a silly rite. Senators repeatedly fired questions about specific legal views that no High Court nominee ever answers. Why not? Because to answer would be to pre-judge possible future cases. That didn’t prevent displays of

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Citizens Rally as Trump Pushes Term Limits

by Paul Jacob Last year, Americans — everywhere from Montgomery County, Maryland, bordering the nation’s capital on the east coast, to sunny Santa Clara, California, on the west coast — voted to impose term limits on their elected officials. There were 40 separate local votes to enact term limits or, conversely, measures put up by

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Anti-Term Limit Lawmakers BUSTED for Bribery

In 2014, Arkansas state legislators used misleading ballot language to trick Arkansas voters into gutting the state’s term limits law. Now the same politicians behind that scheme — which called dumping term limits “ethics reform” — have been busted for bribery. Arkansas State Representative Micah Neal pled guilty last week to taking $38,000 in bribes from two non-profit

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