If most people can't agree to vote out the problematic encumbants I don't see any way most people would go for term limits.Originally posted by hacktivist
We all know the root cause of the problems: entrenched interests whose first priority is to maintain their hold on power. This is why you keep seeing the Giambras and the Masiellos and Hoyts and Naples and ... keep getting elected. And they make sure to pad the County (and City) payroll with their buddies, whose main job is to get their paymasters get elected in the next election.
Therefore, why not impose term limits for the following: County Executive; Mayor; County Legislature, and Common Council? No one should be allowed to run for more than 2 consecutive terms?
Until the root causes of these problems are eliminated, the problems won't go away. We're just playing Whack-a-mole here, without a long-term solution in sight.
It may go a little way to solving the problem, but the other part of the problem is a lack of quality running against the people already in power. I'm not sure I really see the power structure changing very much - the same old union-friendly tax-and-spend politicians will get elected anyway.
Changing the suit doesn't change the government.