Shane Goldmacher on Capitol Alert reports the much anticipated proposal to lengthen term limits will be brought out with submission to the Attorney General’s office today. Presenting it are Speaker Nunez’s consultant Gale Kaufman and Matthew Dowd of the Schwarzenegger campaign, giving it "bipartisan" cover.
The proposal as a selling point, calls for the "shortening" of total time served from 14 to 12 years, as we’ve been hearing, maxing at up to 12 years in one house. Here’s the funny part, if you are already in the Senate now, you can get an extra "transitional" term that allows up to 16 Legislator years…or, would it be 18 if you served 6 years in the Assembly already and want to do 3 Senate terms? Or what if you came in on a half term in the Senate on a special election, maybe you get 14 Senate years then?
I’m not a Greek mathematician or anything but those numbers all seem bigger than 12 to me. Other details should be interesting too, like can previously termed out legislators be "raised from the dead?" There should be more info on it later today…
February 16th, 2007 at 12:00 am
It will be interesting to see if any of the legislators who support this then lose their re-election campaigns to predecessors who have been given the chance to come back.