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Given the well documented fact that, whenever term limits is on a ballot, for city or statewide offices, it wins with overwhelming majorities, such as a 70 to 30 ratio, why hasn’t a ‘deep pockets’ individual or organization come forth with the resources to fund a nationwide petition drive to promote a Congressional Term Limits Amendment ? I am sure some such exist. How can we identify them?
Is it because it is only the lowly voters who believe in it, and not any of the rich high and mighty ? I absolutely refuse to believe that.
Of course, it doesn’t take just money and advertising. It also takes dedicated volunteers to spread the word and do the grunt work. How best to identify them and gain their cooperation?
I am certain that there are many of the wealthy, and many who would volunteer, who have just as much commonsense as all those voters around the country who believe in term limits. I think it is only necessary to create a scenario that will convince them that such a drive will succeed.
Consider the following idea:
Rather than sending a barrage of email to Congress (which will be spam-blocked), let’s do it the old-fashioned way...chain snailmail. It could be started relatively economically by a steady, persistent program of small ads, placed in all kinds of media, all over the country.
These ads would make a brief sensible pitch for a Congressional Term Limits Amendment, and urge readers to write a snailmail to all their friends (with a copy to Congress and the media), to urge them to write to their friends (again with a copy to Congress and the media), and so on, and so on.
At the same time, a number of websites would be prepared to support the ads with the snailmail addresses of Congresspeople, newspapers, radio/TV stations, thinktanks, and bloggers’ email. The site could include samples of particularly effective letters for the writers to use for best results.
Whaddaya think? I'm Nelson Lee Walker, and I believe our country needs Congressional Term Limits
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Just surfing though blogs and yours came up. Let me ask you, how do you feel about staffers? I think they are even more insidious than the front people because no one really knows who they are and they run everything. They go from one administration to another a lot of the time because they have made themselves necassary. I am not only for term limits but support no one, not even non-elected officials can work on Capitol Hill or the White House longer than 10 yrs.
Hi bohica,
You certainly have the right point of view.
Somewhere in my website (in Arguments) and in my Blogs, I have maintained that many term limited citizen legislators will have come from private industry with enough experience to not let 'staffers' give them snowjobs. I had 60 years in tough industrial work, and very few of my staff put anything over on me. It is not a given that staffers will lead the so-called inexperienced citizen Congress around by the nose. No way!
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