Congressional hopefuls from both major parties support term limits for Capitol Hill lawmakers.
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Term limits remain a hot issue on the campaign trail
Opponents criticize Susan Collins for vowing to leave after two terms, but now seeking a fifth.
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New Gloucester board strikes term-limit ordinance
NEW GLOUCESTER — The term- limit ordinance passed by voters at last May’s town meeting didn’t survive a full year: The select board voted 3-2 Monday night to find it legally invalid. Select board member Stephen Hathorne, who helped lead the initial term-limit effort and registered one of the dissenting votes at the April 2 meeting, said […]
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New Gloucester voters to decide on pot law, term limits
NEW GLOUCESTER — Voters will be asked to approve 37 warrant articles at the annual town meeting at 7 p.m. Monday, May 1, at Memorial School on Route 231. Among them is a marijuana ordinance and a term limits ordinance for selectmen. Voter registration begins at 6:30 p.m. Voters will be asked to raise $3.06 […]
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John Martin looks back at a half-century in the State House
LEWISTON — Just a year out of college when he arrived at the State House in 1964 as a newly elected lawmaker from far northern Maine, John Martin entered a world quite different from the one newcomers find there today. The chamber still had spittoons and ashtrays on every member’s desk, he said, and from […]
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Legislators no fans of term limits
AUGUSTA — The one sure thing about term limits is that the Legislature’s 186 members can’t stick around in the same position for too long. Nobody can serve more than eight consecutive years representing the same district before he’s forced to get out or at least run for a different office. But some politicians say […]
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John Martin drops support for his term limit repeal bill
AUGUSTA — The elimination of legislative term limits or extension of terms for lawmakers in Maine seem unlikely at best after committee votes Monday afternoon. Democratic Rep. John Martin of Eagle Lake, who was the poster child for the implementation of term limits in 1993, sponsored a bill, LD 182, to repeal them this year, but […]
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Maine panel rejects bill to nix legislative term limits
AUGUSTA, Maine (AP) — A legislative committee has dealt a blow to an effort to repeal term limits for lawmakers. The State and Local Government Committee voted 10-1 on Monday in favor of rejecting Democratic Rep. John Martin’s bill. Martin, who returned this year for his 24th term in the Legislature, told the committee last […]
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LePage wants to get rid of term limits for legislators
AUGUSTA — Maine Gov. Paul LePage says the state must take “term limits and throw them out of the window.” LePage said Thursday that term limits means the Legislature is full of young people with “firm agendas” who pass bills that “are hurting us for the long haul.” The Republican governor made his remarks at […]