🚀 go-pugleaf

In ye olden post mhigby@pacbell.net spake...
>One Reason Why LA Sucks: Re-Running City Councilmen
>
>According to news reports last week, Los Angeles City Councilmen Hal
>Bernson, John Ferraro and Nate Holden are running again for
>re-election.  Holden's been on the council since the late 80s, Bernson
>since the late 70s and Ferraro SINCE THE EARLY 1960s!
>[...]
>Hopefully, someone qualified, dynamic, and new to the political scene
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>will want to take the challenge.  And if so, we need to support him or
>her, to the full extent of our ablities.

I've always found it amazing how some people wish to apply standards
to an institution that would be unimaginably horrific if it were
applied to any other institution. In this case- term limits. Build a
better gov't by tossing out experienced people and replacing them
with novices. Imagine if this philosophy were applied to doctors at
a hospital, officers at police station, or to engineers. Experience
enables people to do their jobs better. Where else would having "no
experience" help to land anyone a job? Why apply the same thinking
to gov't?

Furthermore, these _are_ elected officials we're talking about. If
they were performing less than adequately, the people would not re-elect
them. Why take away the voters' right to decide what is acceptable?
Term limits are no less than an acknowledgement that voters are stupid
and need to have their choices (and hence their power) curtailed.

Furthermore, term limits are nothing more than a weapon to be used by
an opponent to *reduce* the quality of candidate choices in the hopes
that their candidate will win an election out of randomness rather than
on a proven ability to get the job done.


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