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To: SmithL; DoughtyOne

Correct. He was criticized for jumping on the term-limit bandwagon, at all.

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1665715/posts

Gov. Seeks Deal That Would Ease Term Limits (would swap for redistricting redo)
ap on LA Times ^ | 7/14/06 | Peter Nicholas

SACRAMENTO — Hoping to resurrect an idea voters rejected in last year’s special election, Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger plans to offer lawmakers a deal: He’ll support an easing of term limits if they’ll agree to change the way California draws voting districts.

Schwarzenegger said in an interview Thursday he does not believe term limits have improved Sacramento’s political culture. Allowing legislators to stay in office longer would be worthwhile, he said, if it induced them to put a proposal on the ballot that would strip them of the power to carve political boundaries.

The governor reasons that lawmakers may not want to change voting districts, most of which favor incumbents, but they dislike term limits even more.

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12 posted on 01/31/2008 1:52:28 PM PST by calcowgirl ("Liberalism is just Communism sold by the drink." P. J. O'Rourke)
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To: calcowgirl; SmithL

Thanks to both of you for posting additional material on this subject. I appreciate it.


13 posted on 01/31/2008 1:55:46 PM PST by DoughtyOne (PARTY WANTED: Full Time, Cons exp a must. Refs 20 yrs. No Amnesty sptrs. 1 vote per 4 yrs negotiable)
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