WASHPO: Term limits and D.C. government

Go HERE to read the full Washington Post article by Mike DeBonis.

Excerpt:

In 1994, amid a national push for term limits at all levels of government, District voters, via a ballot measure, approved a two-term limit on the mayor, D.C. Council members and members of the then-extant school board. It wasn’t close: 62 percent of voters said yes.

Those of us familiar with the current makeup of the D.C. Council, with four of its 13 members in their third terms or better, know that at some point the will of the voters was thwarted. That happened in 2001, when the council voted 9 to 4, over much public outcry, to reverse the measure. The arguments presented by council members at the time went something like this: “They’re undemocratic; they take away from the voters their ability to choose their elected officials,” said Jack Evans (D), then, as now, representing Ward 2.

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