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Article: Proposal On Term Limits Rejected; Council Won't Put Issue on Ballot
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- The Washington Post
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- June 22, 2000
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The County Council this week rejected a proposal to let voters
decide whether term limits for council members and the county
executive should be scrapped. The 7-2 vote appeared to settle an
issue that provoked debate among the lawmakers for more than a month;
council members needed six of nine votes to put the measure on the
November ballot.
But council member Thomas R. Hendershot (D-New Carrollton) said
he's not quite done with the topic and may still seek to let citizens
decide whether the term limit law, on the books since 1992, should be
killed.
"There's a preponderance of support for putting to the people the
question of term limits," Hendershot said after the council vote
Tuesday.
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