Of course! I’m just genuinely curious to see why so many are opposed to this.

The same Odette Ramos that voted with Nick Mosby to reduce the pension period for council members? The city council demonstrated exactly why we need term limits last night with their vote.

To her point, we would only be forced to replace the entire city council, mayors office, and city council president if every one of those positions wins re-election and serves their full two terms. And there will certainly be long serving advisors and bureaucrats in City Hall to help with the transition and advise new officials, so much of that institutional memory will be retained.

I’ve never seen such opposition to term limits as I have in this Baltimore sub.

If you ask people about term limiting out the dinosaurs in Congress like Mitch McConnell and Chuck Grassley, 85% of the country agrees! Term Limit Survey. Term limits are overwhelmingly popular, and are nothing new at the local level. Quick google search shows that 8 of 10 of the largest cities in the US have term limits on their city council.

I’m honestly failing to see why this wouldn’t be a good idea. The arguments against it that I seem to be hearing are “Sinclair supports it therefore it must be bad!”. As cliche as it sounds, even a broken clock is right twice a day. I hear the arguments about fearing increased lobbying money, but it’s not as if Baltimore city’s government has been well run and free of corruption without term limits. Corruption and dark money seep their way into politics, term limits or not. If anything, this will force change from our career politicians and will hopefully create a sense of urgency for those in office to get things done before their terms are up.

If I’m missing anything I’d love to hear more arguments against this, but from the arguments I’ve read, it genuinely seems like the only opposition over this stems from the fact that Sinclair supports it. Our city government has been laughably corrupt and incompetent, why do we want to stick with the status quo and not try something new? I may disagree with Sinclair 99% of the time, but I feel like some pragmatism is needed here when looking at this issue.

Union Steady Eddie