Scandal: Arkansas Legislators Hide Longer Term Limits in "Ethics" Amendment
The amendment's title doesn't mention term limits at all. That's right. It's called the "Arkansas Elected Officials Ethics, Transparency, and Financial Reform" amendment. If you ask me, there's nothing ethical or transparent about using such a deceptive title to swindle the voters.
TERM LIMITS QUOTES
"This proposition is a prime nominee for the next Shame of Arkansas. Arkansas Democrat-Gazette Editorial, 10/27/13 "Arkansans are not interested in continuing 'plantation politics' or 'tricks by politicians' be they republicans or democrats." Bill Smith, ARRA News Service |
The amendment summary also claims to be "establishing term limits," an obvious trick intended to fool voters who don't know that term limits were established in Arkansas with 60 percent of the vote in 1992, and defended changing them with 70 percent in 2004.
Knowing these facts, it's really no surprise that the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette, in an October 27th editorial, named this amendment its "Outrage of the Year."
Here's the good news: We / YOU still have time to stop this unethical bill from becoming an unethical law.
There's no sense in forcing Arkansans to spend time and money to defeat it at the ballot box, so we're calling for the General Assembly to recall it from the ballot when the new session begins in February.
Join the effort by calling your State Senator and House member personally to request that they help remove this scam from the ballot.
Only a true grassroots movement will get it done.
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This article previously published on BootBerrism, an outreach of the ARRA News Service
This article previously published on BootBerrism, an outreach of the ARRA News Service
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