Growing list of politicos find fault with term limits
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St. Louis Post-Dispatch: Imagine Missouri's stately Capitol with a vacuum hose attached like a glove around its rounded dome. That's how House Speaker Ron Richard describes the effect of term limits on the General Assembly. "There's always a vacuum up here. There's always someone seeking power," Richard said. "If the legislative branch doesn't get it, forces outside the building might set policy." Over time, Richard said, lawmakers develop the institutional knowledge and personal fortitude to become powerful enough to stand up to the executive branch and the hordes of lobbyists who try to influence legislation. But when term limits force out elected officials before they get properly seasoned, he said, the vacuum sucks the power right out of the Capitol. The speaker's comments land him firmly on a growing bandwagon of Republicans and Democrats in the Show-Me State who have become disillusioned with Missouri's constitutionally mandated limits on the amount of time elected officials can serve in the House and the Senate.
In 1992, Missouri joined a rush of states in placing term limits on members of its state Legislature. The constitutional amendment passed with 75 percent of the vote, and lawmakers who previously could serve as long as voters sent them back to Jefferson City were slowly turned out of office, starting in 2002. Missouri lawmakers now can serve no more than eight years in the House and eight years in the Senate. Republicans were the biggest beneficiaries of term limits as they helped the GOP break a Democratic stranglehold on the General Assembly by forcing competitive contests in seats where incumbents couldn't run. That's what makes the angst over term limits now so ironic. It's Republicans, who seized control shortly after term limits went into effect, leading the charge against them. "I think the voters made a mistake," Richard said recently.
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