Schwarzenegger to endorse term-limit changes

[Lone_Star_Dem]

Source: Los Angeles Times

SACRAMENTO -- Softening his past opposition to changes to California's term-limits law, Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger is endorsing a Feb. 5 ballot measure that would allow many sitting lawmakers to run for office again this year rather than be forced to leave the Legislature.

Schwarzenegger, who as a candidate in 2003 supported California's existing term-limits law as a shield against "special interests" obtaining too much power, reversed himself in an essay released Monday that said the original law "went too far."

"Under the current system, our elected officials are not given the time they need to reach their full potential as public servants," Schwarzenegger wrote in an opinion article published on The Times website Monday and in the newspaper today. "Imagine what would happen if we told a big-city police chief or a sheriff he could stay in the job just long enough to start mastering it and then had to move on."

Schwarzenegger's backing is a boost for the Proposition 93 campaign and its chief proponent, Assembly Speaker Fabian Nuñez (D-Los Angeles), who will be forced out of his seat after this year unless the term-limits law is changed.



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[LiberalFighter]

1. I am against any fixed term-limits law.

I do support term-limits based on an election. They are limited by the number of elections they can win.

[madmom]

2. they are all for them while running, then want them changed when it's their time to leave.

[jaksavage]

3. Politics is corrupt

Even the good politicians get tainted over time
New blood frequently.