When we asked Del. Haven Shoemaker about term limits for state lawmakers and told us on the first day of the 2018 legislative session that “we have some folks down here who have been in office since I was in elementary school,” the soon-to-be-53-year-old wasn’t spouting hyperbole.
Senate President Thomas V. “Mike” Miller, 75, is the longest presiding officer of a legislature in the United States with 32 years in his current post, and 44 total years in the Senate. Prior to that, he served a four-year term in the House of Delegates that began in 1971. Shoemaker turned 6-years-old that January.
On the eve of this year’s legislative session, Gov. Larry Hogan proposed lawmakers take up legislation that would limit future elected officials to two consecutive terms in office. It wouldn’t apply to current lawmakers.
Generally, we’re supportive of term limits. After a while, politicians either get too powerful or they begin to stagnant. How does the old joke go? Politicians are like diapers, they should be changed regularly and for the same reasons.
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These morons are so out of touch with the real world by never having held a job but sleeping, I mean being in congress or senate.
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