Bankhead Forgot to Submit an Argument Against Term Limits
Measure M will be on the ballot in November, but the arguments presented in the official voter materials will be a bit one-sided.
Nobody submitted an argument against the measure to enact term limits against Fullerton city council members.
Was anti-term limit incumbent Dinosaur Don Bankhead asleep at the switch, or was he actaully smart enough to disassociate him self with that position during an election campaign? Who knows?
Sharon Quirk-Silva authored the opinion in support of the measure, which summarizes them as:
- Term limits increase the number of competitive elections
- Term limits bring in more opportunities to serve in public office
- Term limits disfavor seniority
- Term limits promote fresh ideas
Of course, she missed the most important purpose of term limits: they will end the seemingly endless political careers of staff yes-men: folks like Don Bankhead and Dick Jones, who have tormented taxpayers for decades by voting for almost every single boondoggle and corporate welfare project put in front of them.
And for that we thank SQS for sticking by the promise she made way back in January of 2009.
Unfortunately, the new term limits are prospective, which means Blockhead can probably keep running until they carry him out in a box.
Bankhead will lose only if the electorate are made aware of the facts:
Bankhead has been on the council for 22 years
Was recalled for voting for a utility tax
Voted for a retroactive pension spike
Voted for boondoggle after boondoggle
Voted for the six million subsidy to move Mcdonalds
Etc…
And he spent thousands to stay in a hotel thirty minutes from his house. Vote Don Bankhead to waste more public funds!
More government regulations. I thought you guys were against Big Brother watching and telling you what to do. If the people want Bankhead in office then so be it. He got recalled before and was put back in. I guess the voice of the people doesn’t matter to you. Let the voters decide, not some lame ass regulation.
I think “the voice of the people” is about to say yes to term limits. Sounds like democracy to me.
22 years is freaking freaky.
More restrictions is democracy at it’s finest.
Hi Flatfoot. You union guys just love those idiots like Bankhead and Jones who milk incumbency as you milk them.
But those days are coming to an end.
Hey Jo-Jo, there you go again assuming things. You wanna talk about milking, do you look up to Shawn and make eye contact?
Not nice Flatfoot. Is that the kind of talk they teach at Police Academy?
You’re still assuming Jo-Jo. Not everyone who hates SN is a cop. I know you find that hard to believe because your whole world revolves around FFFF and your 11 other friends on this site and you don’t see the big picture.
Okay. Police Academy II.
The power of incumbency is not just in a lazy, uninformed electorate. It is also in the prodigious fund-raising advantage that these people have given their connections to developers of massive subdivisions and huge, subsidized housing projects.
It’s too bad the only way to clean house is to restrict those with more ambition than ability.
I note that even those who start out well end up emasculated over the years. And most of them don’t even start out well.