Issue Position: Term Limits & Fair Maps

Issue Position

For decades, career politicians in all three branches of government have stood in the way of common-sense reforms that will take power away from them and give it back to the people. They want to hold their offices indefinitely and prefer to draw custom legislative districts where they will face as little electoral competition as possible, leading to uncontested elections and depriving most voters of any real choice.

This cycle must end if we are to move forward. I strongly support both term limits and fair maps - important changes that will help dismantle the often-corrupt power structure smothering our state. Since politicians never vote to limit their own power, I will gladly sponsor legislation placing referenda on the ballot imposing term limits on state elected officials and instituting an objective mapping system to draw rational political boundaries that are compact and do not arbitrarily divide our communities. Voters, not courts or politicians, have a right to make these changes and I will fight hard to put both on the ballot.

Without term limits and fair maps, we will continue to be ruled by an entrenched few whose personal interests align with the status quo and the tyranny of short-term political outcomes, not the well-being of the people and the future of our state.

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