Article: District Term Limits Tossed; Council Reverses Voters' Decision In Referendum

Article: Panel Favors Term Limits Review; Full Council Set to Vote on Referendum July 25
The Washington Post;  July 13, 2000 ;     668 words ......Georgians decide whether term limits should be scrapped for the council and the county executive...whether to overturn term limits for the council and for the executive...of legislation on term limits--one for the council and the other for...

Article: Term Limits Go Back on Ballot; Council Approves Referendum
The Washington Post;  July 27, 2000 ;     700+ words ......whether they want to keep term limits. The council's ruling sets the stage...Prince George's current term limits law. The council voted on two separate measures...though a majority of the council opposes term limits. Some rejected the measure...

Article: Council mulls repeal effort on term limits.(Metropolitan)
The Washington Times;  March 13, 2001 ;     393 words ......thought about council members repealing term limits for themselves...established term limits. They say the council is trying to back door term limits' dissolution...she opposed term limits seven years ago. If the council passes this...

Article: Bangor council to debate term limits repeal
Bangor Daily News Bangor, ME;  September 28, 2002 ;     459 words ......Baldacci said that because of term limits, Bangor councilors are largely prevented...City Hall. In Bangor, term limits for city councilors were overwhelmingly approved...unsuccessful - both to repeal the council term limits and impose similar limits...

Article: D.C. Council Considers Repeal of Term Limits; Majority Appears To Oppose Law
The Washington Post;  January 9, 2001 ;     700+ words ......voters approved term limits for the city's elected...majority of the D.C. Council is leaning toward...Evans said of term limits. The proposed repeal...majority support on the council. But at least two...has opposed D.C. term limits from the start...refashioning of the ...

Article: Council hit for overturning term-limits law voters OK'd.(Metropolitan)(District)
The Washington Times;  June 7, 2001 ;     700+ words ......But some in the council who support term limits believe that the...voted to keep the term limits in place . . .. I didn't think the council should have rescinded...ANC, lobbied the council to overturn term limits, arguing the law...

Article: Rosemead voters to weigh term limits for City Council
Pasadena Star-News;  June 11, 2008 ;     247 words ......whether to implement term limits for City Council members. On Tuesday...April requested that the council discuss term limits. Low, who was voted...previously was in support of term limits and has served on the council for 17 years, voted...

Article: Political Memos: Jewish Power Drain Feared; Reduced representation on City Council seen under term limits
The Jewish Week;  February 16, 2001 ;     700+ words ......representation on City Council seen under term limits. Jewish members...position on the term limits. But the Metropolitan Council on Jewish Poverty...director of Met Council. "The dangerous thing about term limits is that members...

Article: TERM LIMITS PROPOSED FOR COUNCIL MEMBERS.(News)
Daily News (Los Angeles, CA);  February 20, 2001 ;     349 words ......proposing the city adopt term limits for council members, saying change...your board is doing.'' Term limits for the council can be enacted two ways...Corrales for the seat on the council, also made term limits an issue in his campaign...

Article: D.C. Panel Backs Repeal of Term Limits; Council Committee Challenges Legality of Cap Imposed by Voters in 1994
The Washington Post;  April 25, 2001 ;     678 words ......proposal to repeal term limits for members of the council and the Board of...saying they oppose term limits," she said. Council members Harold Brazil...all. Under the law, term limits would not affect current council members until 2004...

Article: Term Limits Under Fire On Council; 7 Members' Seats at Stake
The Washington Post;  May 25, 2000 ;     700+ words ......campaigns for County Council to incumbent...voter-imposed term limits accomplished...opposition to term limits--a sentiment shared by most council members--is...Voters supported term limits 51 to 49 percent...forcing six of the council's nine members...

Article: D.C. Council Panel Backs Repealing Term Limits; Legality of Cap Set Voters Challenged
The Washington Post;  April 25, 2001 ;     678 words ......proposal to repeal term limits for members of the council and the Board of...saying they oppose term limits," she said. Council members Harold Brazil...all. Under the law, term limits would not affect current council members until 2004...

Article: Proposal On Term Limits Rejected; Council Won't Put Issue on Ballot
The Washington Post;  June 22, 2000 ;     700+ words ......voters decide whether term limits for council members and the county...people the question of term limits," Hendershot said after the council vote Tuesday. Hendershot...supported a proposal to lift term limits for the council but not for the county...

Article: Backlash grows against term limits: New Yorkers debate, in true New York fashion, merits of seeing 35 City Council seats turn over.(USA)
The Christian Science Monitor;  March 13, 2001 ;     700+ words ......current City Council members don't repeal term limits - which voters...government. Term limits will only succeed...when the City Council was impotent...York, where term limits for the first...of the City Council's 51 seats...