Our system of term limits in Michigan is an utter failure

Reblogged from Michigan Radio by Jack Lessenberry

… we’ve transferred power to the lobbyists and special interests.

Years ago, soon after term limits first took effect in Michigan, a friend of mine served her three terms, and was forced to retire. To my surprise, her husband ran to succeed her. She came to the Legislature with a background in local government; he had none.

I thought his running was somehow faintly wrong. In any event, he lost in the primary, possibly because he had a different last name than she did.

If anyone had asked me then, I would have said I thought his candidacy was an aberration. In fact, the only aberration was that he happened to lose.

These days, politics in Michigan is a sea of elected nepotism.

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