The Orange County Register’s Editorial Board has decided to oppose Santa Ana’s latest unfair Term Limits initiative, Measure GG. You can read the ballot argument I wrote opposing Measure GG here. And here is their editorial:
Editorial: No on Santa Ana Measure GG
Tighter term limits on the mayor than on the council seems like a device aimed at the incumbent.
THE ORANGE COUNTY REGISTER
We long have favored term limits. But they are not a panacea for political problems. Exhibit A: Proposition 140, which voters passed in 1990. It limited the governor to eight years in office, Assembly members to six years and state senators to eight years. It was modified this past June by Prop. 28, which limited legislative terms to 12 years total in either house. Continue reading
