Comments on: Term Limits Were a Big Bust

By: Tylerle13

Tylerle13 — Fri, 22 Jul 2011 20:49:59 +0000

Just limit each legislator to 1-3 proposed bills per year or term, that would force them to only propose things that really matter instead of enacting 700 new BS laws each year, creating scores of unaccountable agencies, and wasting taxpayer money declaring “Symbolic” days of recognition for every possible demographic group.

If they werent wasting so much time running through thousands of redundant garbage bills, they would be forced to spend more time in their districts listening to the needs & concerns of the people they are supposed to be representing, instead of spending all of their time in Sacto listening to lobbyists & hack political advisors that just buy their votes.

By: David from Oceanside

David from Oceanside — Thu, 21 Jul 2011 23:02:06 +0000

Another option would be a random shredder. Seven of ten bills would be randomly shredded and there would be a five year moratorium before the inane nanny state intrusion into our lives could be reintroduced.

By: StevefromSacto

StevefromSacto — Thu, 21 Jul 2011 16:44:15 +0000

A state with 37 million people, larger than most countries, can be run by a part-time legislature? It will make our legislators more knowledgeable and less prone to follow special interests? It will make corporations and unions less powerful? Only if you believe in the tooth fairy.

The real “ooops” in Prop. 140 was that it gave control of our government to lobbyists and government staff people. They were the only ones who stayed around long enough to understand the real issues. In the meantime, legislators hardly had time to find the rest rooms at the Capitol before they began campaining for higher offices.