"Deceptive" Charge "Misleading" Issue 3 On Arkansas Ballot

by Paul Jacob, Contributing Author: Many politicians serve as powerful arguments for term limits. Arkansas State Senator Jon Woods rivals the best.

Sen. Woods (R-Springdale) and State Rep. Warwick Sabin (D-Little Rock) authored a 22-page, 7,000-word constitutional amendment on this November's ballot. They say Issue 3 is about ethics and transparency.

You decide.

Woods and Sabin threw together various ethics provisions and then stuck in a gutting of term limits. Their ballot title reads it is "establishing term limits" -- without bothering to inform voters that it doubles how long legislators can stay in the Senate and more than doubles the House limit -- to a whopping 16 years!

This week, Arkansas Term Limits debuted TV ads alerting the public to the scam, charging that legislators have "pursued a campaign of silence . . . letting the deceptive ballot title do their work," so that "when Arkansas voters go to the polls there will be no mention of the doubling of term[s]."

The unrepentant Sen. Woods says that it is "misleading" to call his Issue 3 deceptive. Meanwhile, the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette reports that, after asking if Woods's ballot language wasn't indeed deceptive: "Woods said he doesn't know."

The senator's response to the Arkansas GOP Convention's unanimous resolution against Issue 3? "You just have a couple of nuts that got together on a Saturday that were out of touch with Arkansans and passed a silly resolution that in no way reflects the point of view of all Republicans in Arkansas."

Perhaps Democratic politicians are smarter. Democratic co-author Sabin is nowhere to be found in news coverage of Issue 3, likely hiding under his bed.

This is Common Sense. I'm Paul Jacob.

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