Ohio

  Help Save Ohio’s Term Limits April 2015: The Ohio Constitutional Modernization Commission — which is made up entirely of legislators, lobbyists and their appointees — is set to recommend to the Legislature that term limits be weakened from 8 years in one seat to 12. Any term limit longer than eight years distorts the

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Michigan

To everyone’s surprise, Former Senate Majority Leader Randy Richardville left the Michigan state legislature’s term limits alone in 2014. He realized that going against voters’ will and using resources to attack a popular reform wasn’t worth the gamble. Republican Rep. Ed McBroom thinks otherwise. Just a few months into session and he’s already helped craft

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Maine

    Save Maine’s Term Limits April 2015: In 1993, Mainers put eight-year term limits on the ballot and passed them into law with a resounding 68 percent of the vote. In 2007, four-decade legislator John Martin helped put a measure on the ballot to lengthen term limits to 12 years, and it failed by the

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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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Nebraska

Nebraska was the last state legislature to adopt term limits. In 2000, 56 percent of voters passed a two-term four year limit on members of the legislature. Senator Mike Friend (10) introduced LCR 5CA, a bill which will amend the number of terms for members of the legislature from two to three.  The bill has been

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