Terminal Hypocrisy

Eric commented on yesterday's post with a question about how the council term limits came to be. You are correct Eric, it was a citizen's initiative. I believe it was around 1991 and was headed by some big names including James B. Nutter and Charles Wheeler among others. It was in response to the corruption that had swept through the council resulting in some indictments. I'm against repealing the term limits. However, I don't object to putting the question before the voters. Times change as do attitudes but as I said yesterday, in my world 8 years is an entire career. The Charter Review Commission heard tons of testimony telling them to leave the term limits in place yet they still came back to the council with a recommendation of increasing term limits from two terms to three. I don't understand the Charter Review Commission's motivation behind repealing the limits other than certain people want to continue receiving some extra income for a part-time job. Have I mentioned that before? Did you know that technically the mayor and council positions are part-time? That will be the subject of another post. Stay tuned...