Tuesday, October 05, 2010
Forum: Reforms needed to stop rule by professional politicians - Peoria, IL - pjstar.com
Forum: Reforms needed to stop rule by professional politicians - Peoria, IL - pjstar.com
Applying this to all levels of our government sounds good to me.
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An excellent article that definitely should apply to all levels of government. Things have gotten way out of hand both locally and statewide.
Term limits on every level are something I believe would be beneficial. Two terms of four years for most offices should be the maximum. When you look at the previous political situation in Peru with Baker having held an absolute strangle-hold on anything and everything in town for so many years. Peru had almost fifty years of absolute rule under an "imperial" mayor who influenced and propped up the candidacy of numerous "puppet" aldermen who ended up serving multiple terms doing nothing more than providing a "rubber stamp" for Don. This was old time Chicago style politics and Baker knew how to play the game.
Don Baker's over-bearing presence in Peru politics was way too much for way too long and remains the best argument there is for term limits.
Term limits are a subject that I would like to see reviewed and discussed on the blog. Especially for the political offices of the City of Peru. As far as the state level we know where the Governor of Illinois serves his second term.
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