Arkansas

Arkansas Term Limits used a wooden Trojan horse in 2014 to show voters that politicians were scamming the people to obtain longer term limits. 2014 was a tough pill to swallow for voters in Arkansas. Politicians deceived voters with a sneaky ballot title that lengthened the state’s legislative term limits. The legislature now has “the weakest

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Illinois

According to recent data from the University of Illinois at Chicago, Illinois is the third most politically corrupt state in the country. Since 1976, it has averaged 51 public corruption convictions per year. These numbers indicate that term limits are needed more than ever to restore turnover and accountability to prairie state government. Term limits have emerged in

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Maryland

Delegate Michael J. Hough (R-3B) announced that he will introduce a term limits amendment when the Maryland General Assembly reconvenes in January 2014. The amendment proposes a three term (12 year) limit for both Delegates and State Senators. In order to refer an amendment to voters in Maryland, it must pass both chambers with a three-fifths vote. Here’s

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Montana

In 2014, Montana legislators debated House Bill 601 and House Bill 639 in the State Affairs Committee. Both bills would have doubled term limits to 16 years in one seat. THREAT LEVEL:     DEFEATED. Thanks for your hard work!     Montana’s term limits law survived its first attempt at a repeal in 2004, when 70 percent of

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South Dakota

  February 2014: Even after getting rejected by 76% of the vote in 2008, the South Dakota anti-term limits crowd is at it again. This time, a group of career-minded politicians in the state legislature has introduced HJR 1002, which again aims to lengthen term limits from eight years in one seat to twelve. Thankfully,

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Nevada

Nevada State Rep. Tick Segerblom will forever be remembered as the legislator who claimed “his peeps were begging him to stay in the legislature for life”. Which is funny, because even the committee Tick presented his bill to abolish term limits in, immediately saw through the ridiculous notion that “elections are term limits” and shot

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All Other States

Dear friend of term limits, Thank you for your interest in term limits, a simple and popular reform that offers regular rotation in office, competitive elections, access to office for citizen legislators, increased transparency and a reduction in the influence of special interests. In other words, term limits brings legislatures closer to the people. As

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Oklahoma

The 2014 Campaign to Term Limit the Mayor and City Council of Oklahoma City Passed in 1990 with 67 percent voting in favor of it, Oklahoma’s term limits law allows for a total of 12 years to be spent between both chambers. This year, Senator Mary Easley (D-Tulsa) introduced SJR 3, which if passed, would

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2012-2016 Battles

Politicians still have not learned that voters love term limits.  Attacks are already flying, with several states introducing legislation that would amend or repeal their term limits laws.  Other states, like Illinois, have initiated exciting campaigns to put term limits on the ballot this year. Click on the states below to find out what you

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