A Great Victory for Term Limits

There was a great victory you should know about. Term limits is a national issue. Holding state lawmakers accountable to the constitutional authority vested in the people is an essential principle to civil government. Said more simply—if we are going to continue to live together under the same laws we have to know that lawmakers are playing by the same rules as the rest of us. So when Florida lawmakers tried to pull a fast one on the people by switching out 8-year term limits for a faulty twelve-year proposal, we sounded the alarm. People all across Florida responded—in fact we got responses from states all across this part of the country. Phone calls and emails started flying into the Statehouse. The deal that was supposed to stay quiet got exposed. The lines between the establishment insiders and the people who put them in office were clearly drawn. The pollsters ran the numbers and could easily predict the twelve-year plan would go down to a huge defeat if it ever reached the ballot. They also saw voters just might throw out the rascals behind the twelve-year plan as well. So in the last hours of the Legislative session the House pulled the anti-term limits measure from the ballot. The vote was 103 to 14. Around the country no one could remember a time when the Legislature made such a move—pulling an amendment from the ballot which they placed there in the first place. The news coverage on this story was extremely limited. Most papers hate term limits and are not going to put this victory on the front page. But we thought you should know. If you prayed about this struggle in Florida, or wrote or called, we want to say thank you. You made a difference and the people of Florida made history and sent a message across the nation. It’s a little old fashioned, I know, but this stuff still works.